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A book has many lives. It’s thought, it’s edited, it’s printed, it’s reprinted, it’s commentated on
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation’s sacred religious and legal t
One of the first things I tell my students, and that I repeat throughout a semester, is that texts d
Psalms! There’s over 150 of them marked in the book by the same name in the Old Testament. How can w
Job, as a literary and biblical figure, gives us a lot to think about. He goes from riches to rags
In Original Grace, Adam S. Miller proposes an experiment in Restoration thinking: What if instead of
Can one be directed by God when one doesn’t know that one is being directed? The answer, of course,
If an eighteenth-century cleric told you that the difference between “civilization and heathenism
How do we learn from failure? Especially the end of an organization as large as a kingdom? What if
Elijah and Elisha are well-known to Latter-day Saints. The prophecy that Elijah would return was for
Solomon’s reign was glorious, but what he gained in wealth, wives and infrastructure he lost in spi
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Spiritual experiences are famously transformative. They sometimes inspire dramatic effects of conver
In Mosiah 29, Mosiah says that “if it were possible that you could have bjust men to be your kings,
The Old Testament names more women, and has more books named for women, than any of the other texts
There’s a difficulty in reading the scriptures. I’m not referring to words on the page. I’m also not
“This Church will stand, because it is upon a firm basis. … The Lord has shown it to us by the revea
Scholars spend entire careers debating texts, their origins, their impact, and the most valuable co
Deuteronomy is the final book in the Pentateuch, containing Moses’ last sermons, as well as poetry r
