BOOK OF MORMON LESSON 17: MOSIAH 7-11
Mosiah chapters 7-11 The story that Mormon tells in chapters 7-11 of Mosiah gets complicated. He uses some unique literary devices that the previous narrators had not used. These include embedded primary texts and flashbacks. Dr. Grant Hardy, Professor of...
BOOK OF MORMON LESSON 16: MOSIAH 4-6
“Ye Shall Be Called the Children of Christ” Mosiah 4-6 In Mosiah 4-6 we get a continuation of Mormon quoting directly the primary source of King Benjamin’s speech. We must ask why he does so. 4:4 “My friends and my brethren, my kindred and...
BOOK OF MORMON LESSON 15: THE BOOK OF MOSIAH 1-3
MOSIAH 1-3 “Eternally Indebted to Your Heavenly Father” Beginning with The Words of Mormon, we are introduced to the second major narrator/historian of the Book of Mormon – Mormon himself. Since he is writing almost a thousand years after some of...
BOOK OF MORMON LESSON 14: ENOS, JAROM, OMNI, WORDS OF MORMON
THE BOOK OF ENOS In The Book of Enos, we continue to follow the prophetic line that is through Jacob, the brother of 1 Nephi. Since it is still the small plates we are reading up to this point, we hear nothing of the king(s) of the Nephites. Faith as being...
BOOK OF MORMON LESSON 13: JACOB 5-7
THE ALLEGORY OF THE OLIVE TREE Looking back at Chapter 4 of Jacob, we see Jacob addressing his “children” and “beloved brethren.” His children are probably his descendants. Who are his “beloved brethren?” Are they the...LGBTQ Mormon Crisis
Two Printable handout for bishops and stake presidents that talks empirically about LGBTQ suicides:
The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide
Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis
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