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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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Church History

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste 4.11: Orson Hyde on lay clergy

by Jonathan Green • April 16, 2021

If I were writing about the benefits of lay clergy in a missionary tract, I would probably spend less time on dusting one’s feet.

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Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum, Lesson Aids, Scriptures, Temples

“Endowed with power from on high”

by Chad Nielsen • April 14, 2021

The revelations we are studying this week continue with themes found in revelations from throughout 1830, such as an imminent Second Coming and the gathering, but also set up an expectation for an endowment of power that would be an…

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Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 37-40 — Gathering, Fears and Cares

by Kent Larsen • April 12, 2021

Poems about the Gathering, preparation in order to ally our fears, and the cares of the world, to accompany the Come Follow Me lesson for April 12 to 18.

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News and Politics

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste 4.10: Orson Hyde on continuing revelation

by Jonathan Green • April 11, 2021

The teachings are familiar, but the images are surprising.

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Come Follow Me Currculum

“The time of my coming”

by Chad Nielsen • April 10, 2021

For several days odd signs had been showing—the sky was yellow and the sun was red.  Suddenly, the sky darkened further.  Animals ran for cover.  When seen, the moon was red and soot was seen to be floating in the…

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Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 30-36 — Missions and Family Relationships

by Kent Larsen • April 9, 2021

The seven sections of the Doctrine and Covenants covered by this week’s Come Follow Me lesson discuss, in general, missionary work and the subsequent benefits of membership in the Kingdom. The first five of these sections include missionary calls to…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, General Doctrine

Lit Come Follow Me: Easter

by Kent Larsen • April 3, 2021

While no Come Follow Me lesson will be taught at church this coming Sunday, there is a lesson in the manual, meant for home study. So, I’m providing some poems to go with that lesson, which focuses on three aspects…

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From the Desk Co-posts

Richard Turley on Dallin H. Oaks

by Chad Nielsen • April 3, 2021

Recently, President Dallin H. Oaks’s biographer, Richard E. Turley, Jr. sat down with Kurt Manwaring to discuss the recently-published book In the Hands of the Lord: The Life of Dallin H. Oaks.  What follows here is a co-post to the…

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Ein Ruf aus der Wüste 4.9: Orson Hyde on blessing and baptizing children

by Jonathan Green • April 2, 2021

This short sections feels quite familiar.

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Images, News and Politics, Temples

Counterpoint: A Feeling of Loss–On Murals and Temples

by Chad Nielsen • March 31, 2021

I lived a significant portion of my life in Logan, Utah and frequently attended the temple during the time that I lived there.  I had a lot of beautiful and sacred experiences while doing so, but I also rarely attended…

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News and Politics

Point: It’s just art

by Jonathan Green • March 30, 2021

Hezekiah didn’t consult with artists or historians before destroying the bronze snake Moses had made. He didn’t even try to preserve it somewhere else for its cultural value.

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News and Politics

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste 4.8: Orson Hyde on confession and disfellowship

by Jonathan Green • March 28, 2021

On the confession of sin and the treatment of members acting contrary to law

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Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum, General Doctrine, Scriptures

“The gathering of mine Elect”

by Chad Nielsen • March 25, 2021

Change and continuity create an interesting tension in the Church.  I explored this in a previous post as the tension of believing in an everlasting, unchanging gospel that we have had restored to us and the belief in ongoing revelation…

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From the Desk Co-posts, Images, Mormon Arts

Art and Latter-day Saint History with Anthony Sweat

by Chad Nielsen • March 23, 2021

Some years ago, an institute teacher in a Church history class I attended said with some levity that: “I bear my testimony that Church media is not true.”  He said this hyperbolic statement in the context of a class where…

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Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 29 — Gathering and the Plan of Salvation

by Kent Larsen • March 22, 2021

Two poems to enhance study of the Come Follow Me lesson for D&C 29, which covers both the Gathering and the Plan of Salvation. The poems are Eugene A. Rooch’s Come, Gather to Zion and Joseph L. Townsend’s Among the Ancient Indian Mounds

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Life in the Church

The first rule about disagreements in church is no one talks about disagreements in church. But we should.

by Mary Grey • March 21, 2021

There are certain things that you grow up with that you don’t realize are weird until you start really noticing the world around you and see that other families don’t do those things your family does. Take one of my…

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News and Politics

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste 4.7: Orson Hyde on the sacrament

by Jonathan Green • March 20, 2021

For Hyde, the sacrament seems to be not quite as strictly symbolical as it is for us, and more directly tied to guilt and confession. Also, will Sunday always be the Sabbath?

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Mormon Arts, News and Politics

Redux: Responding to bigoted but famous texts—by Seuss and Doyle

by Kent Larsen • March 17, 2021

The recent controversy over the decision of the literary estate of Theodore Seuss Geisel to stop selling six of his Dr. Seuss books because of their bigoted depictions of minorities reminded me of a somewhat similar situation. Nearly 10 years ago,…

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Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum, General Doctrine, Scriptures

“For he Receiveth them even as Moses”

by Chad Nielsen • March 16, 2021

Several years ago, I had a conversation with co-worker from outside of Utah about various Mormon churches that existed in Utah.  He had been doing some research and we were discussing fundamentalist Latter-day Saint groups (ones like the FLDS or…

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Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 27-28 — Sacrament and Supremacy

by Kent Larsen • March 15, 2021

A function of revelation is clarifying confusion and what isn’t clear. And this function is displayed in the two sections of the Doctrine and Covenant’s covered in this coming week’s Come Follow Me lesson. In Section 27, we learn that…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, General Doctrine

“All things shall be done by common consent”

by Chad Nielsen • March 12, 2021

Within the corpus of J. Golden Kimball folklore, there is a story of Elder Kimball getting bored during a long process of sustaining officers at a stake conference somewhere south of Provo, Utah.  Noticing that most of the congregation was…

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News and Politics

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste 4.6: Orson Hyde on confirmation

by Jonathan Green • March 11, 2021

What is a priesthood ordinance’s method of action? What Hyde describes in this short article seems to be both less direct, and to emphasize the mediation of the priesthood and the priest conducting an ordinance, more than we typically would…

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

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 23-26

by Kent Larsen • March 9, 2021

One often forgotten feature of the Doctrine and Covenants is the very personal nature of many of its revelations. This week’s Come Follow Me lesson includes several sections of these revelations, including the unusual compilation of revelations found in section…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, General Doctrine, Scriptures

“It is expedient that the church meet together often to partake of bread and wine”

by Chad Nielsen • March 4, 2021

If the Book of Moroni is an instruction manual to “build a church,” as Michael Austin suggests, with the “nuts-and-bolts how-to-run-a-church stuff that anybody trying to reassemble what the Nephites built will need to know,”[1] then Doctrine and Covenants Section…

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News and Politics

Ein Ruf aus der Wüste 4.5: Hyde on baptism

by Jonathan Green • March 3, 2021

Also, Native Americans make an appearance.

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

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 20-22

by Kent Larsen • March 1, 2021

Administrative acts don’t always get the same attention that ordinances and more dramatic events. And in comparison to the First Vision, the Martyrdom and a number of other events, the organization of the Church doesn’t get as much attention. This…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, General Doctrine, Scriptures

“It is not written, that there shall be no end to this torment”

by Chad Nielsen • February 27, 2021

Years ago, I attended a testimony meeting that began with a counselor in the bishopric talking about how grateful he was to be a part of a religion where believed that God was full of grace and would save almost…

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

Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 18-19

by Kent Larsen • February 23, 2021

The sections of the D&C covered in this week’s Come Follow Me lesson are apparently about the calling of the twelve apostles and paying for the Book of Mormon. But they also include themes that don’t directly bear on these…

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