Moroni chapter 8 is Mormon’s epistle to his son Moroni on the salvation of little children. For more on this doctrine, see Robert L. Millet,s paper entitled Alive in Christ: The Salvations of Little Children.”1 Pelagius (354-418 AD) was a Christian thinker who opposed Augustine in the 5th-century. Most ofContinue Reading

These beginning chapters in Ether teach us the importance of prayer, how to receive revelation, and how the Lord communicates with us. In this podcast we discuss the idea of light and air questions, and why the distinction matters. These chapters are also a type of the journey that weContinue Reading

In Mosiah 7.30-32, Limhi talks about the results of his people’s iniquity, one of the results being that they “reap(ed) the east wind” (Mosiah 7.31). What is this east wind that Limhi speaks of? And how did it apply? To me this is an example of Limhi quoting the BrassContinue Reading

All of the anti-Christs in the Book of Mormon have essentially the same goal: to get their listeners to not believe in Jesus Christ and get them off the path that leads back to God. Despite this, they certainly would not get along with each other if gathered in theContinue Reading

John Welch wrote this article many years ago that has interested me more lately as I am working to learn the languages associated with the Old and New Testaments. The word “Mosiah” was a word that was contained in the Old Testament, but not available in English as it wasContinue Reading

I always like to go through the narrative of David’s call to kingship as found in 1 Samuel. Right off the bat, we see three different narratives: He is chosen and anointed king by Samuel (1 Samuel 16.1-13). David is chosen due to his musical skill in healing King Saul’sContinue Reading

1 Nephi 8-11 Coming into the presence of God in his temple There are multiple ways to read the story of the Tree of Life. Certainly this story is first and foremost about God’s love and invitation for all men to come into his presence through the Atonement of hisContinue Reading

Revelation, or the Apocalypse Ἀποκάλυψις  Martin Luther on the Book of Revelation The book of Revelation almost didn’t make it into the Christian bible! It certainly had things in it that did not make sense to Christians in the centuries after the death of the apostles! For example, the reformerContinue Reading

This document contains the show notes for a podcast I made in November 2019 about bishops in early Christianity and the counsel in the Pastorals regarding the choosing of a bishop. I was interested in doing something like this for a while, due to the scholarship that exists regarding theContinue Reading