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Come Follow Me Currculum, Music and Poetry, SS Lesson - Doctrine and Covenants

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 71-75: Criticism, Consecration and Proclamation

by Kent Larsen • June 28, 2021

Poetry for this week’s Come Follow Me lesson, D&C sections 71-75, addressing Criticism, Consecration and Proclamation

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Come Follow Me Currculum, Music and Poetry, SS Lesson - Doctrine and Covenants

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 67-70: The Lord’s Witness, Inspiration, and Parenting

by Kent Larsen • June 26, 2021

Poetry for this week’s Come Follow Me lesson, D&C sections 67-70, addressing The Lord’s Witness, Inspiration, and Parenting

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Come Follow Me Currculum, General Doctrine, Latter-day Saint Thought

“When moved upon by the Holy Ghost”

by Chad Nielsen • June 24, 2021

At this point in the year, we’ve finally caught back up with the context of where we began—Section 1.  The conference in early November 1831 (at which Sections 1, 67 and 68 were recorded) was focused on publishing the revelations…

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News and Politics

Ruf aus der Wüste 5.2: Hyde on wealth

by Jonathan Green • June 22, 2021

Orson Hyde, socialist?

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News and Politics

Ruf aus der Wüste 5.1: Hyde on the end time

by Jonathan Green • June 15, 2021

Hyde touches on his own life and perspective for the first time.

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Come Follow Me Currculum, SS Lesson - Doctrine and Covenants

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 64-66: Forgiveness, Zion’s Ensign and Our Thoughts

by Kent Larsen • June 14, 2021

Poetry for this week’s Come Follow Me lesson, D&C sections 64-66, addressing Forgiveness, Zion’s Ensign and Our Thoughts

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Church History, From the Desk Co-posts

Saint, Senator, and Scoundrel

by Chad Nielsen • June 11, 2021

“The lack of any biography of Frank Cannon seemed a glaring gap in [Utah] annals. It was high time to tell his story.”  Val Holley recently stated this during an interview with Kurt Manwaring where they discussed Frank Cannon and…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, Music and Poetry, SS Lesson - Doctrine and Covenants

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 63: Rebelliousness and Signs—The Lord is in Control

by Kent Larsen • June 7, 2021

Poetry for this week’s Come Follow Me lesson, D&C section 63, addressing rebelliousness and signs, but concluding that the Lord is in control

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News and Politics

Home MTC is good

by Jonathan Green • June 3, 2021

At some point in the near future, the Missionary Training Center will likely reopen fully, and in some ways that’s unfortunate, because home MTC is good.

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Language and Literature, Latter-day Saint Thought, Mormon Arts, Mormon Studies

Why Mormon Literature is Vital

by Kent Larsen • May 31, 2021

Last night poet and author James Goldberg, current president of the Association for Mormon Letters (AML), gave a short but masterful Presidential address as part of the AML’s annual conference. His poetic style and urgent message is quite powerful, despite…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, Music and Poetry, SS Lesson - Doctrine and Covenants

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 60-62: Missionary Work

by Kent Larsen • May 31, 2021

Poetry for this week’s Come Follow Me lesson, D&C sections 60-62, addressing missionary work and the Lord’s support for us.

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News and Politics

Are Half of All Church Members in the US Single?

by Stephen C • May 26, 2021
Chart showing the percentage of married LDS adults is between 80% and 60% since the early 1990s.

The following is Stephen Cranny’s third guest post here at Times & Seasons. Stephen Cranney is a Washington DC-based data scientist and Non-Resident Fellow at Baylor’s Institute for the Studies of Religion. He has produced over 20 peer-reviewed articles and five…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, Music and Poetry, SS Lesson - Doctrine and Covenants

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 58-59: Timing of Blessings, Sabbath Day

by Kent Larsen • May 24, 2021

The end is always a new beginning. The arrival of the first Latter-day Saints in Independence, Missouri was both an end and a beginning. They accomplished the goal of gathering to Zion, but then realized that now they had to…

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Church History, From the Desk Co-posts

The American Apocalypse

by Chad Nielsen • May 22, 2021

The end of the world is a pretty dramatic scene.  Perhaps it is because of that drama that the idea has captured the imagination of human beings for thousands of years and continues to do so today.  It is not…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, Music and Poetry, SS Lesson - Doctrine and Covenants

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 51-57 — Temporal Zion

by Kent Larsen • May 21, 2021

By going in order through the Doctrine and Covenants, the Come Follow Me lessons sometimes show the concerns of the Church at a particular point in time. The seven sections included in this lesson are quite varied, but all demonstrate…

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Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum, Scriptures

“Whoso forbideth to abstain from meats”

by Chad Nielsen • May 17, 2021

It’s a well-known grammar joke that punctuation can save lives, since there is a difference between saying: “Let’s eat, Grandma!” and: “Let’s eat Grandma!”  Punctuation and grammar do make a difference, as Oakhurst Dairy found out the hard way a…

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News and Politics

Ruf aus der Wüste 4.15-16: Hyde on washing of feet

by Jonathan Green • May 12, 2021

I think this is more about foot washing than I’ve ever read anywhere before.

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Come Follow Me Currculum, Poetry, SS Lesson - Doctrine and Covenants

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 49-50 — Marriage, Falsehood & Edification

by Kent Larsen • May 10, 2021

Poetry for this week’s Come Follow Me lesson, D&C sections 49-50, addressing marriage, identifying falsehood & edification through spiritual gifts.

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News and Politics

Happy Mother’s Day: A Review of Carol Lynn Pearson’s *Finding Mother God: Poems to Heal the World*

by David Evans • May 9, 2021

I started listening to Carol Lynn Pearson read her latest poetry collection — Finding Mother God: Poems to Heal the World — and I could not stop. And now I’m listening to it a second time. It’s vibrant and healing.…

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Church History, From the Desk Co-posts, Mormon Studies

“It is given to some to speak with tongues”

by Chad Nielsen • May 8, 2021

I served my mission in the Midwestern United States, and we had a decent amount of contact with groups, such as the Pentecostals, who were enthusiastic about charismatic gifts of the Spirit.  I remember on one occasion, that a missionary…

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Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 46-48 — Welcome, Spiritual Gifts, History and Sharing

by Kent Larsen • May 7, 2021

Poetry for this week’s Come Follow Me lesson, D&C sections 46-48, addressing being welcoming, spiritual gifts, keeping a history and sharing the lands we own.

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News and Politics

Translating the faith healer

by Jonathan Green • May 6, 2021

Was I comfortable with the topic? the prospective client on the other end of the video call wanted to know.

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Book of Mormon, From the Desk Co-posts

Daniel Becerra on 3rd and 4th Nephi

by Chad Nielsen • May 5, 2021

Within the Book of Mormon, 3rd and 4th Nephi are arguably some of the most important portions of the book, with their focus on the in-person ministry of Jesus Christ among the children of Lehi and what followed because of…

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News and Politics

Ruf aus der Wüste 4.13-14: Hyde on the Sabbath

by Jonathan Green • May 2, 2021

Article 13 On prayer and on the manner of worship. Prayer is one of the primary obligations of the Christian, and he is reliant on it for any consideration that might stir his ambition or instill it in him, for…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, Music and Poetry, SS Lesson - Doctrine and Covenants

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 45 — Standards and Zion

by Kent Larsen • April 29, 2021

Poetry for this week’s Come Follow Me lesson, D&C section 45, addressing the raising of gospel standards and establishing Zion.

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Come Follow Me Currculum, Lesson Aids, Scriptures

“Provide for him food & raiment”

by Chad Nielsen • April 25, 2021

As a missionary, I occasionally found myself in the uncomfortable experience of listening to my companions talking about how proud they were to be part of a Church where every calling is performed on a voluntary basis, with no compensation—from…

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Book Reviews

Hear the words of the Church’s first lady — a review of Jennifer Reeder’s *First: The Life and Faith of Emma Smith*

by David Evans • April 24, 2021

“I have many more things I could like to write but have not time.” Thus wrote Emma Smith in a letter to her husband, Joseph Smith. I wish she did have the time! Jennifer Reeder’s biography of Emma Smith —…

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News and Politics

Ruf aus der Wüste 4.12: Baptism for the dead

by Jonathan Green • April 24, 2021

Orson Hyde blazes the trail for every Temple and Family History consultant ever since.

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Come Follow Me Currculum, Poetry, SS Lesson - Doctrine and Covenants

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 41-44 — Law, Consecration and Revelation

by Kent Larsen • April 23, 2021

Poetry for this week’s Come Follow Me lesson, D&C sections 41-44, addressing the law, consecration for supporting the poor, and the role of revelation.

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Church History, From the Desk Co-posts

Know Brother Joseph

by Chad Nielsen • April 17, 2021

What did Joseph Smith think?  What was he like as a person?  Questions like these are interesting to think about and are important considerations when you’re a part of a religion that draws so heavily on one person’s writings and…

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