Gospel Doctrine

Since I've already covered 3Ne 27-28 in previous posts, I'll focus on 4 Nephi.Why is...

A couple of notes first. I'll be in San Antonio for the annual joint Society of...

I'm on the road and having technical problems. So I'm posting this rough, now, and...

These chapters constitute the end of Day 1 of Jesus' visit (ends in 19:3) and...

Today we enter into a very interesting section of the Book of Mormon. Like the Isaiah chapters,...

Let's begin with this observation about the power of art, by a BYU professor with...

Today we get to meet Samuel, who prophecies of, well, 3 Nephi, basically. What does it...

Classes have begun, and it's heavy. I spent today reading Schleiermacher's On Religion and a book about...

Today's text includes a good bit of carry-over from the war chapters, while adding political...

Today we continue the war chapters, and get to read some military correspondence. I don't...

As I've pointed out previously, the Book of Mormon moves at different paces in different places....

These chapters (and 39) are all focused on Corianton, who gets quite the paternal talk....

The Book of Mormon has a variable pace. Occasionally, we skip through decades or even hundreds...

First, the structure of the text. Alma 30-34 are really one unit, which we break...

These two chapters are loaded. First, we encounter the third member of the Unholy Trinity of...

I did an Olympic-distance triathlon this morning, and it's left me pretty exhausted... body and...

Alma 17 begins with a chance meeting between Alma and the sons of Mosiah, and...

These chapters are the violent dénoument of the Ammonihah story. Grant Hardy cogently points out how this story...

Once again, the lesson and chapter divisions cut across the 1830/original chapter divisions, breaking up logical...

Alma has divested himself of the judgeship to go on a mission of sorts, to...

Today we move into the Book of Alma. The stories of Alma Sr. and Alma...

(Posted from the Middle of Nowhere, Michigan.) This lesson has us jump to Alma's retelling of...

  When it comes to frustrations with Gospel Doctrine class, one problem is that we...

It's been a busy week. I capped off the semester by editing an 11,000 word...

These three epistles are usually grouped with James and the three epistles of John, together...

Paul's letter to Romans "has been the most studied of the apostle's writings -- indisputably...

[Please see my newer version of this post here.] Let me open by saying, this...