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Eliza R. Snow
Contributed by Caroline Historical Background Taken from Eliza R. Snow’s Poetry, BYU Studies: “As plural wife of two prophets and sister of a third, as an admired leader of women, and as an acknowledged voice of the Saints to the outside world, Eliza R. Snow was as close to the center of formative events and…
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On Revelation
Contributed by Kristen Someone asked me recently if I believe the Book of Mormon is a historical record or a creation of Joseph Smith. I actually feel significant apathy toward the question. That’s not to say I think it’s totally irrelevant and I sympathize with the weight behind it—I recognize that it really matters to…
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Storytelling and Scripture
Contributed by Kristen This week, we’re exploring how we tell the foundational stories of the Latter-day Saint people. This whole milk and honey project started with a few moms talking about how to tell our kids stories that honored their intelligence and dignity as people. We wanted to tell stories that didn’t talk down to…
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D&C Intro: Proliferate, Prodigious, Pollinating Truth
Theological Background Contributed by Kristen I’m thinking about truth (what a word, what an idea). I’m thinking about claiming something is “true,” and what that means. More true than another claim? Categorically true? Reductively true? Contextually true? True in all aspects, with no caveats? Logically true? Effectively? Phenomenologically? Conditionally? I even looked up common metaphors…
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Moroni
Contributed by Kristen And Moroni’s hope is audacious. There at the end, after the final battle, after the scent of blood and rot so thick the land repels it, after the haunted children and human offerings, after the war crimes lands the world over will repeat and repeat and repeat, there is stillness. There at…
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Ether
Contributed by Kristen I had my first baby in March 2020, just as the pandemic lockdowns began. About a year later, I remember reading the words of another woman who became a mother around the same time. I don’t remember her name, but I remember what she said: “I had become this totally different person…
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Mormon
Contributed by Kristen And my soul was rent with anguish, because of the slain of my people, and I cried: O ye fair ones, how could ye have departed from the ways of the Lord! O ye fair ones, how could ye have rejected that Jesus, who stood with open arms to receive you! Behold,…
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4 Nephi
Contributed by Kristen Here’s how the book of 4 Nephi starts: And it came to pass in the thirty and sixth year, the people were all converted unto the Lord, upon all the face of the land, both Nephites and Lamanites, and there were no contentions and disputations among them, and every man did deal…
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3 Nephi 17-26
Contributed by Kristen Shortly after both of my children were born, I remember at least one overwhelming moment of intense anxiety as their tiny little bodies nestled so close and so completely to mine. This is what absolute dependency looks like, my anxiety throbbed. They are entirely reliant on you. And in a mystery of…
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3 Nephi 8-16
Contributed by Kristen I walked today on a path swaddled in trees. Bridges cocooning water, I swayed over the earth as light sparkled like smoke between the trees. What is spirit, I asked my daughter, and we talked as though words could bridge our way. Who is Jesus? Why did he come? Does it matter? …
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