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The Release Schedule of New Book of Mormon Video Series Announced at Media Event

A family prays after hearing King Benjamin teach. © 2019 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.
Submitted by Robert Starling on September 5, 2019.
On September 3, after several years of preparation and production, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints took the wraps off its new series of videos based on various stories in the Book of Mormon . At a long-awaited Media Day, reporters, photographers, TV news crews and writers representing media from the Provo Daily Herald to The New York Times were invited to the...

“Swallowing Up” Death in Isaiah, 1 Corinthians, and the Book of Mormon

Resurrection of Jesus Christ by Romolo Tavani via Adobe Stock.
Submitted by Neal Rappleye on September 3, 2019.
Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians, includes a theologically powerful defense of the bodily resurrection ( 1 Corinthians 15 ). Towards the end, he eloquently drew upon Isaiah 25:8 and Hosea 13:14 to express Christ’s triumph over death: Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory...

New Book Explores Political Rhetoric in the Book of Mormon

The book cover of The Voice of the People: Political Rhetoric in the Book of Mormon
Submitted by Stephen Smoot on August 28, 2019.
David Charles Gore, The Voice of the People: Political Rhetoric in the Book of Mormon (Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2019). 227 pp. $15.95 Mosiah 29–Alma 2 narrate a pivotal moment in Nephite history. This was the period when the Nephites switched from being a monarchy to being ruled by a hierarchy of judges. It was also the period that saw dissenters...

“Ye Are the Body of Christ” – 1 Corinthians 8–13

Image of temple square via Daily Herald.
Submitted by Stephen Smoot on August 27, 2019.
Paul’s instructions to the saints at Corinth covered a variety of topics. These included teachings on the nature of spiritual gifts and the body of Christ, that is, the collective body of members of the Church of Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 12 contains Paul’s teachings on these two connected concepts. “Now concerning spiritual gifts,” Paul began in this chapter, “I would not have you ignorant...

How Can Keeping “the Unity of the Faith” Help Us Be “the Temple of God”?

The celestial room in the Fortaleza Brazil Temple. Photo via Church News.
Submitted by David Larsen on August 20, 2019.
When writing to the saints in Corinth, Paul strongly emphasized that there should “be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment” ( 1 Corinthians 1:10 ). He tried to teach them that there should be no contentions among them, and that “Christ” should not be divided ( vv. 11, 13 ). The preaching of Christ should serve to unite them and...