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Light from St Paul
The Maya Society of Minnesota regularly invites eminent Mesoamericanists to present lectures and labs on the campus of Hamline University in St. Paul. The 2019 - 2020 speakers were intriguing and we...
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Herschel Pedersen (1929 - 2020)
My friend and mentor, Herschel Noel Pedersen, died April 1, 2020 at age 91. He was a giant of a man who kindled a spiritual flame inside me that has never dimmed. I was privileged to grow up in the...
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One Aspect of President Nelson's Hinge Point
While in Rome for the dedication of the Rome Temple in March, 2019, Pres. Russell M. Nelson said this particular temple is "a hinge point in the history of the Church."...
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New Church Symbol - Book of Mormon Connection
We are all indebted to mesoamericanist and BYU faculty member Mark Alan Wright for this remarkable insight. He published it in his 2014 Axes Mundi article in Interpreter and shared it with us on his...
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COVID-19 Death Rates by State
The Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University publishes COVID-19 cases and dates by state. This is their data as of April 7, 2019. As with all images on this blog, click to...
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Zeroing in on Cumorah
It occurred to me last night that Mosiah 8:8 adds an additional element to the list of textual criteria describing the land of Cumorah. The land where we will find hill Ramah/Cumorah was not just a...
View ArticleMesoamerican Chronological Alignment with Book of Mormon Events
This article is a work in process documenting remarkable temporal concordance between Mesoamerican events known to science and historical events recorded in the Book of Mormon.Ceramics first appear in...
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Money in Ancient America
The Book of Mormon describes an advanced market economy with:Chief markets Helaman 7:10Many merchants, lawyers, and officers 3 Nephi 6:11Written records that facilitated trade Mosiah 24:6Riches gained...
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Today I was transcribing the special episode on Book of Mormon geography from Taylor Halverson and Tyler Griffin's excellent Come Follow Me Insights show on the Book of Mormon Central YouTube channel:...
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Destroying History
Communication channels these days bring news of mobs toppling statues, trying to destroy history they find opprobrious. I am reminded of the Taliban who in March, 2001, blew up statues of Guatama...
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Ancient American Warfare
A naive myth persisted for decades among archaeologists that the ancient Maya were for the most part peaceful astronomers and theologians. This was a serious problem for the Book of Mormon which...
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FOMO in the Book of Mormon
Fear of Missing Out, FOMO, is referenced frequently in contemporary popular culture. It is an anxiety that others may be enjoying something while you are on the sidelines, not participating. It can...
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Aguada Fénix Update
Takeshi Inomata has the most exciting site in Mesoamerica, Aguada Fénix on the San Pedro in the municipality of Balancán, Tabasco. LiDAR Image of Aguada FénixIt sits at the nexus of Olmec and Maya...
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Mighty Nation = Spain
In December, 2018, I authored an important blog post entitled "Prophecy Fulfilled 016" identifying the mighty nation among the Gentiles described in 1 Nephi 22:7 as Spain. The article explained the...
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Outstanding Come Follow Me Resources
I volunteer as Executive Director of Book of Mormon Central. Our vision is to build enduring faith in Jesus Christ by making the Book of Mormon accessible, comprehensible, and defensible to people...
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Mounds
Ancient earthen mounds exist worldwide. Known as "barrows" in England, "kurgans" in Turkey, and "tumuli" in many parts of the world, earthen mounds are known from:Sweden (Gamla Upsalla, 2,000...
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David Whitmer's Testimony
David Whitmer (1805-1888) was one of the three witnesses shown the golden plates by the Angel Moroni in Fayette, NY in June, 1829.David Whitmer, Portrait by Lewis RamseyOn Tuesday, August 21, 1883,...
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Early Book of Mormon Geography
First and second generation Latter-day Saints didn't spend much time working out the details of Book of Mormon geography, but they had some definite ideas that can help guide us today in our search for...
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ca. 3300 BC The Lord prophesied to Enoch that "righteousness will I send down out of heaven."Moses 7:62. This prophecy was repeated ca. 530 BC "righteousness shall look down from heaven."Psalms 85:11....
View ArticleCome Follow Me 2021 Resources
I volunteer as Executive Director of Book of Mormon Central (BMC). As 2020 progressed, we became the most important source of Come Follow Me enrichment material outside the institutional Church. My...
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