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November 12, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 42: 4 Nephi
Since I've already covered 3Ne 27-28 in previous posts, I'll focus on 4 Nephi.Why is...
November 06, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 41: 3Ne 22-26
A couple of notes first. I'll be in San Antonio for the annual joint Society of...
October 2016
October 29, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 40: 3Ne 16, 20-30 (Rough post)
I'm on the road and having technical problems. So I'm posting this rough, now, and...
October 26, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 39: 3Ne 17-19
These chapters constitute the end of Day 1 of Jesus' visit (ends in 19:3) and...
October 08, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 38: 3Nephi 12-15
Today we enter into a very interesting section of the Book of Mormon. Like the Isaiah chapters,...
September 2016
September 25, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 37: 3Ne 8-10
Let's begin with this observation about the power of art, by a BYU professor with...
September 17, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 35: Helaman 13-16
Today we get to meet Samuel, who prophecies of, well, 3 Nephi, basically. What does it...
September 11, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 34: Helaman 6-12
Classes have begun, and it's heavy. I spent today reading Schleiermacher's On Religion and a book about...
September 03, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 33: Helaman 1-5 Notes and Questions
Today's text includes a good bit of carry-over from the war chapters, while adding political...
August 2016
August 20, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 32: Alma 53-63 “The War Chapters Part II”
Today we continue the war chapters, and get to read some military correspondence. I don't...
August 06, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 31: Alma 43-48 aka “The War Chapters I
As I've pointed out previously, the Book of Mormon moves at different paces in different places....
July 2016
July 31, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 30: Alma 40-42, Three Generations of Repentance
These chapters (and 39) are all focused on Corianton, who gets quite the paternal talk....
July 30, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 29: Alma 36-39 Notes and Suggestions
The Book of Mormon has a variable pace. Occasionally, we skip through decades or even hundreds...
July 24, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 28: Alma 32-34
First, the structure of the text. Alma 30-34 are really one unit, which we break...
July 17, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 27: Alma 30-31
These two chapters are loaded. First, we encounter the third member of the Unholy Trinity of...
July 10, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 26: Alma 23-29
I did an Olympic-distance triathlon this morning, and it's left me pretty exhausted... body and...
July 03, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 25: Alma 17-22 (Draft)
Alma 17 begins with a chance meeting between Alma and the sons of Mosiah, and...
July 02, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 24: Alma 13-16
These chapters are the violent dénoument of the Ammonihah story. Grant Hardy cogently points out how this story...
July 02, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 23: Alma 8-12
Once again, the lesson and chapter divisions cut across the 1830/original chapter divisions, breaking up logical...
June 2016
June 25, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 22: Alma 5-7
Alma has divested himself of the judgeship to go on a mission of sorts, to...
June 18, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 21- Mosiah 29, Alma 1-4
Today we move into the Book of Alma. The stories of Alma Sr. and Alma...
June 18, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 20: Mosiah 25-27, Alma 36
(Posted from the Middle of Nowhere, Michigan.) This lesson has us jump to Alma's retelling of...
May 2016
May 15, 2016
Mormons, Evangelicals, Tradition, and Sunday School
When it comes to frustrations with Gospel Doctrine class, one problem is that we...
May 15, 2016
BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 18: Mosiah 12-17
It's been a busy week. I capped off the semester by editing an 11,000 word...
November 2015
November 29, 2015
New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 43: 1-2 Peter, Jude
These three epistles are usually grouped with James and the three epistles of John, together...
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