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Abraham and His Family
In Scripture, History, and Tradition
Saturday, May 3, 2025 and Saturday, May 10, 2025
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Brigham Young University Religious Education,
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Joseph Smith: A Life Lived in Crescendo
Edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
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This two-volume set (1100 pages total) seeks to enrich study of the life and teachings of Joseph Smith through essays by knowledgeable and faithful scholars on selected punctuation marks of Joseph Smith’s final years in Nauvoo. While some of Joseph Smith’s contemporaries saw these events and doctrinal developments as evidence that he was a fallen prophet, modern Latter-day Saints, looking back, see them as a glorious culmination to a faithful life.
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Reprint: Temples beyond Jerusalem
Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. For more information, go to...
The Heartland versus Mesoamerica — Part 7: Geology and the Destructions in Third Nephi
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 || Part 8 | ...
Interpreter Radio Come, Follow Me: Doctrine & Covenants 58 and 59 for June 2 – June 8
In the May 11th Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts Mark Johnson, Kevin Christensen, and Martin Tanner discuss the Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson for June 2 – June 8 covering D&C 58 and 59. You can listen to or...
Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants — D&C 58–59
D&C 58:2-4; 59:1-4 Whether You Live or Die As the first Saints begin arriving in Missouri—the place of gathering to Zion—the Lord makes tremendous promises to those who obey Him: “He that is faithful in tribulation, the reward of the same is greater in the kingdom...
Interpreter Radio Show — May 18, 2025
In the May 18, 2025 episode of The Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts are Bruce Webster and Martin Tanner. They discuss the Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson for June 9 – June 15, Church leadership, Hugh Nibley, the three Nephites, and Matt Roper’s...
Interpreting Interpreter: (Non-)Anachronisms – Culture
This post is a summary of the article “Anachronisms: Accidental Evidence in Book of Mormon Criticisms — Chapter 4: Ancient Culture” by Matthew Roper in Volume 65 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter...
Anachronisms: Accidental Evidence in Book of Mormon Criticisms — Chapter 4: Ancient Culture
[Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present chapter 4 from a book entitled Anachronisms: Accidental Evidence in Book of Mormon Criticisms. It is presented in serialized form in this volume of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.] [toggle...
Interpreting Interpreter: The Problem of Evil
This post is a summary of the article “Latter-day Saint Theology and the Problem of Evil” by Val Larsen and Newell D. Wright in Volume 64 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at...
Latter-day Saint Theology and the Problem of Evil
Abstract: The classical formulation of God as the sole, self-existent Being and ground of all that exists poses a philosophical problem. If God is omniscient and omnipotent, why does evil exist? Why does he not save humankind from moral and natural evil? If we embrace...
Reprint: From Jared to Jacob: The Motif of Divine Ascensus and Descensus in Genesis, the Book of Moses, and the Enochic Tradition
Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in The Temple: Plates, Patterns, & Patriarchs, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. For more information, go to...
The Heartland versus Mesoamerica — Part 6: Narrow Necks and Small Necks
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 || Part 8 | ...
Interpreter Radio Come, Follow Me: Doctrine & Covenants 51-57 for May 26 – June 1
In the May 4th Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show, our hosts Martin Tanner, Hales Swift, and Brent Schmidt discuss the Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson for May 26 – June 1 covering D&C 51-57. You can listen to or download the...
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