I began to reflect

Reflections on Joseph Smith and the Holy Scriptures: The Holy Bible, The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, The Doctrine and Covenants, The Pearl of Great Price, and Related Themes

Friday, November 4, 2016

Brigham Young in the office (leaders at work)

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Brigham Young's office style "The stream of visitors poured steadily through the outer office and trickled in orderly seq...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Doctrine and Covenants 59: Oblations and Sacraments on the Lord's Day

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My father would often speak about how present generations likely do not understand the wording used in the Doctrine and Covenants in the sam...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Why Is It There? Book of Abraham Facsimile 1 and the Opening Vignette of the Joseph Smith Book of Breathings

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The Joseph Smith Book of Breathings opens with a vignette representing Osiris on a lion-couch . The Book of Abraham opens with a vignett...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

How Was The Book of Abraham Transmitted? Just What We Need to Know.

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The Book of Abraham is good enough to set forth the nature of its own transmission into our "own hands." And that transmission has...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Two Bridges: A Cautionary Note about Today's Book of Mormon Scholarship

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My purpose is to cheer on the promising buds of gospel scholarship. As a Latter-day Saint who prizes thoughtful writing on the Book of Mor...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Two Bridges (First Draft)

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My purpose is to cheer on the promising buds of gospel scholarship. As a Latter-day Saint who prizes thoughtful writing on the Book of Mor...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Book of Mormon Ammon and Ramesses the Great : Hero or Zero?

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When the triumphant but amazed servants of King Lamoni streamed back into the palace, bearing the hewn arms of their enemies, the king had t...
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I began to reflect
2020 is the Bicentennial of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I dedicate this website not to the wise and the learned but to those of the rising generation, who, like the young Joseph Smith, are beginning to learn the things of God for themselves. "I began to reflect" is how Joseph describes his earliest yearnings for God. The Book of Mormon gives us added insights on the phrase: of Coriantumr we read "he began to remember"; "he began to repent." I began to reflect corresponds to I began to repent. I hold copyright for all postings and alone am responsible for all content. Nothing I post on Scripture should be considered an official or authoritative statement of the teachings or policies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I address all readers who love the truths revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith and all those who may yet learn to love them. I hold myself free from any investment whatsoever in polemics, apology, politics, religious controversy, or debate (see 1 Peter 1:15). "Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right." Val Hinckley Sederholm, PhD, Egyptology, UCLA.
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