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December 2020

Free Christmas Book Featuring KnoWhys from Book of Mormon Central

The Virgin Mary and the Christ Child. Image via Adobe Stock.
Submitted by Jared Riddick on December 24, 2020.
In 2016, as we were wrapping up our first year of publications, Book of Mormon Central published a compilation book of our Christmas-themed KnoWhys entitled, “Because There Was No Darkness” – The Birth of Christ: A Book of Mormon Perspective. Now, as 2020 draws to a close, we are excited to publish a second edition of that book , containing the original KnoWhys, as well as several...

What the Shepherds and Abish Teach us about Being a Witness of Christ

Screenshot from Messages of Christ.
Submitted by Heather Ruth Pack on December 22, 2020.
Abish, a Lamanite servant, was an unlikely witness. However, after the Lamanite king testified that the Messiah would be born of a woman, she “ran forth from house to house, making it known unto the people” that they might see for themselves how the power of God had converted the king, queen, and others (Alma 19:17). Another group of unlikely witnesses were the shepherds abiding in the fields...

Insights into the Life of Mormon from Moroni 9

Mormon termina compendio by Jorge Cocco.
Submitted by Scripture Central on December 8, 2020.
Several scholars have looked carefully at Mormon’s letter in Moroni 9 and tried to determine when he wrote it. Pioneering Book of Mormon scholar Sidney B. Sperry dated it to between AD 380–384. 1 More recently, two others, Alan Miner and Joseph Spencer, separately came to similar conclusions, placing this letter somewhere between AD 375–380. 2 The details supporting this dating were summarized in...

Everything You Need for Studying the Doctrine and Covenants in 2021 with Come, Follow Me

Screenshot of Come Follow Me Insights with John Hilton III.
Submitted by Jasmin Gimenez on December 3, 2020.
Book of Mormon Central has been a go-to place for many Latter-day Saints this year in their Come, Follow Me study. In 2020, BMC launched the popular YouTube series, Come Follow Me Insights , featuring Professors Tyler Griffin and Taylor Halverson. We published reading plans, resource guides, videos with John Hilton III, videos with Taylor Halverson and two, new Book of Mormon...