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Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants —...

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2025/10/21

D&C 124:1-2 Nauvoo In 1839 the Saints were expelled from Missouri and the Prophet Joseph Smith and his associates were allowed to escape from imprisonment. Church leaders purchased property in Illinois and began to lay out the city of Nauvoo. Joseph traveled to Washington D.C. to seek redress for the Missouri wrongdoings from President Martin […] The post Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants — 124 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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Brigham Young, Race, and Slavery: Reexamining Utah’s...

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2025/10/20

[Editor’s Note: This article by Dan Peterson was originally published in Meridian Magazine on August 26, 2025, https://latterdaysaintmag.com/brigham-young-race-and-slavery-reexamining-utahs-1852-service-act/.] We can’t escape the fact that Brigham Young said some things about racial issues that make us cringe in the twenty-first century. In fact, to make matters worse, as governor of Utah Territory, he presided in 1852 […] The post Brigham Young, Race, and Slavery: Reexamining Utah’s 1852

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“After All We Can Do”: A Note on the Definition of 2...

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2025/10/18

A Moment of Challenge Many years ago, while attending the Manti Pageant in Utah,[1] I encountered a group of Evangelical Christians protesting outside the grounds. One of them confidently asserted that he could prove – from my own scriptures – that I was bound for hell. When I invited him to show me, he turned […]The post “After All We Can Do”: A Note on the Definition of 2 Nephi 25:23 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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Interpreting Interpreter: Missionary Parallels in Alma

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2025/10/17

This post is a summary of the article “The Literary Structure of Alma 21–22” by Derek Squire in Volume 66 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at https://interpreterfoundation.org/category/summaries/. An introduction to the Interpreting Interpreter series is available at https:/interpreterfoundation.org/interpreting-interpreter-on-abstracting-thought/. A video introduction […] The post

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The Literary Structure of Alma 21–22

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2025/10/17

Abstract: This article is part two of an analysis of the literary structure of Alma 17–27. The current article analyzes the literary structure of Alma 21–22, which is “an account of the preaching of Aaron and Muloki and their brethren to the Lamanites” as noted in the heading before Alma 21. These two chapters were […] The post The Literary Structure of Alma 21–22 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and...

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2025/10/14

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Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and...

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2025/10/14

During 1978, 1979, and 1980, Hugh Nibley taught a Doctrine and Covenants Sunday School class. Cassette recordings were made of these classes and some have survived and were digitized by Steve Whitlock and recently enhanced by Nick Galieti. Most of the tapes were in pretty bad condition. The original recordings usually don’t stop or start […]The post Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants 121-123 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine &...

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2025/10/14

In the September 24th Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Terry Hutchinson. John Gee, and John Thompson discuss the Come, Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants lesson for October 20 – 26 covering D&C 121–123. You can listen to or download the Come, Follow Me segment of the September 24th […] The post Interpreter Come, Follow Me Podcast: Doctrine & Covenants 121–123 for October 20 – 26 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants —...

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2025/10/14

D&C 121:1-6 Joseph’s Supplications The winter of 1838-1839 was extremely difficult for Church leaders and members. Among other things, a number of members had been robbed, beaten, raped, and murdered. They were displaced from the state; thousands of them being forced to walk across the snow-covered hills of Missouri toward Illinois; Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs […] The post Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants — 121–123 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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Interpreting Interpreter: New World Apostles

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2025/10/10

This post is a summary of the article “Reading Disciple Consistently As New-world Apostle in the Book of Mormon” by Carl J. Cranney in Volume 66 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at https://interpreterfoundation.org/category/summaries/. An introduction to the Interpreting Interpreter series is […]The post Interpreting Interpreter: New World Apostles first appeared on The Interpreter

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Reading Disciple Consistently As New-world Apostle in...

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2025/10/10

Abstract: In the Book of Mormon, the term disciple occurs fifty-five times. Of those, forty-eight are unambiguous references to the Twelve called by the risen Christ to preside over his new-world Church. The remaining six instances could plausibly be read either as references to more generic followers of Jesus or as references to the Nephite […] The post Reading Disciple Consistently As New-world Apostle in the Book of Mormon first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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Reprint: From the Egyptian Temple through the Hebrew...

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2025/10/09

Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in Seek Ye Words of Wisdom: Studies of the Book of Mormon, Bible, and Temple in Honor of Stephen D. Ricks, edited by Donald W. Parry, Gaye Strathearn, and Shon D. Hopkin. For more information, go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/seek-ye-words-of-wisdom/. “My first day as a student […]The post Reprint: From the Egyptian Temple through the Hebrew Bible to the Book of Mormon first appeared on The Interpreter

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Interpreter Podcast — October 7, 2025

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2025/10/08

In the October 7, 2025 episode of The Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Terry Hutchinson, Kevin Christensen, and Mark Johnson discuss the passing of President Nelson and General Conference. You can listen to or download the discussion segment of the podcast episode below. The audio track is also included in our podcast feed (https://interpreterfoundation.org/feeds/podcast). […]The post Interpreter Podcast — October 7, 2025 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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Interpreter Podcast — October 5, 2025

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2025/10/08

In the October 5, 2025, 2025 episode of The Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our host Martin Tanner discusses the shooting at the Chapel in Grand Blanc, Michigan. You can listen to or download the discussion segment of the podcast episode below. The audio track is also included in our podcast feed (https://interpreterfoundation.org/feeds/podcast). Podcast: Download […]The post Interpreter Podcast — October 5, 2025 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants —...

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2025/10/07

D&C 115:4-6 The Name and Purposes of the Church It is April 1838 and Joseph Smith and about 2,000 Saints are living in the area of Far West, Missouri, making it the de facto headquarters of the Church. For the first eight years of the restored Church, it was known as The Church of Christ […] The post Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants — 115–120 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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Some Good Questions, but Large Inferences from Tidbits

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2025/10/03

Review of R. Kent Crookston, Book of Mormon Ecology: What the Text Reveals about the Land and Lives of the Record Keepers (Provo, UT: Village Lane, 2020). 267 pages. $12.95 (paperback). Abstract: As is well known, the Book of Mormon is a brief spiritual account from many centuries of Lehite and Jaredite peoples. Some of […]The post Some Good Questions, but Large Inferences from Tidbits first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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Reprint: The Reach, the Handclasp, and the Embrace

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2025/10/02

Part of our book chapter reprint series, this article originally appeared in Seek Ye Words of Wisdom: Studies of the Book of Mormon, Bible, and Temple in Honor of Stephen D. Ricks, edited by Donald W. Parry, Gaye Strathearn, and Shon D. Hopkin. For more information, go to https://interpreterfoundation.org/books/seek-ye-words-of-wisdom/. “Egyptian stelae from the First Intermediate […]The post Reprint: The Reach, the Handclasp, and the Embrace first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants —...

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2025/09/30

D&C 111 I am not Displeased, Notwithstanding Your Follies Read the section heading and consider this: When things do not go as we had hoped, we should not simply assume that we had made a mistake. We cannot say that Joseph Smith erred in making a 1,200-mile round-trip journey to Salem, Massachusetts, failing in his […] The post Study and Teaching Helps: 2025 Doctrine & Covenants — 111–114 first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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Interpreting Interpreter: A Masonic Endowment?

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2025/09/26

This post is a summary of the article “A Textual Comparison of Masonic Rites and the LDS Temple Endowment” by David Eddington in Volume 66 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. All of the Interpreting Interpreter articles may be seen at https://interpreterfoundation.org/category/summaries/. An introduction to the Interpreting Interpreter series is available […]The post Interpreting Interpreter: A Masonic Endowment? first appeared on The Interpreter

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A Textual Comparison of Masonic Rites and the LDS...

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2025/09/26

Abstract: Numerous discussions of the similarities between the LDS temple endowment and Masonic rites exist, which give the impression that the two overlap considerably. Rather than focus on the similarities themselves, this paper seeks to quantify how much the two rites overlap by performing a textual analysis. In the first section, the named entities, clothing, […] The post A Textual Comparison of Masonic Rites and the LDS Temple Endowment first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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