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Biblical Passages Referencing the Book of Mormon
After the Book of Mormon appeared in Palmyra, NY on March 26, 1830, some of the early Saints such as Parley P. Pratt scoured the Bible looking for passages they thought referenced this new book of...
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Ancient Transoceanic Voyage
On April 28, 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) set sail from Callao, Peru in a balsa wood raft built with primitive technology. 16th century Spanish and Indian chroniclers left...
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Elder Gong on Father Lehi's Children
In the Saturday Morning Session of the 191st Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held in Salt Lake City on April 3, 2021, Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of...
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Growth
It is Saturday, April 2, 2022 and we are in the middle of General Conference which has been wonderful. The Church just published its annual statistical summary for 2021. The good news is we grew by...
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Notes on the Maya and Teotihuacan
My friend, Javier Tovar of Atotonilco de Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico, has been attending the III Encuentro Internacional de Mayistas (April 25 - May 31, 2022) in Teotihuacan. These notes come from him.In...
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Texts as Objects
Sarah E. Jackson has a PhD from Harvard. She is on the anthropology faculty at the University of Cincinnati. She and Linda Brown co-direct fieldwork at Say Kah, a Classic Maya site in NW Belize....
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Food Crop Staples
Two interesting prophecies in the Book of Mormon have impressive fulfillment in the agricultural commodities people and animals around the world consume every day. I am indebted to my friend, Tim S....
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Mesoamerican Temples
With President Nelson's announcement today of new temples in Cuernavaca, Morelos; Pachuca, Hidalgo; Tula, Hidalgo; and Toluca, Estado de Mexico; there are now 22 temples in operation, under...
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Horses in Mexico in Book of Mormon Times
Wade Miller is an emeritus professor of vertebrate paleontology formerly on the BYU Geology faculty. He spent many years working on the collection of remains recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los...
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Jeff Bezos on Writing Great Prose
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, said a well-crafted six-page document cannot be written in a day or two. A week or more is typically the time it will take to author an effective memorandum according to...
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Elder Quentin L Cook on Lehi's Descendants
In the Saturday morning session of April 2023 General Conference, Elder Quentin L. Cook described the scattering and the gathering of Israel. As part of that talk, he said "Descendants of Father Lehi...
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Church Growth in 2022
For the second year in a row, the Church annual growth rate increased and in 2022 the Church growth rate once again exceeded the world population growth rate after 2 years of falling behind the world...
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Nineteenth Century English in and around Palmyra New York
In 2014 I published a blog article entitled "Early Modern English."The next year I published another article entitled "English in the Book of Mormon."Both articles support the idea from Royal Skousen...
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Ancient Treaty AD 353
Abstract: An alliance celebrated on February 26, AD 353 at the Maya site of Tortuguero in modern Tabasco may be the same treaty the Nephites entered into with the Lamanites and the Gadianton robbers...
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Norman, Sorenson, and Allen
Vernal Garth Norman (June 30, 1934 - December 1, 2021) passed away in American Fork, Utah. John Leon Sorenson (April 8, 1924 - December 8, 2021) passed away in Provo, Utah. Joseph Lovell Allen (May 29,...
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Light from CDMX
From Monday, June 19 to Wednesday, June 21, 2023, Scripture Central convened a Book of Mormon geography workshop in Mexico City. Participants included:Luis Castillo, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Luis is the...
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At the end of the blog article "Biblical Passages Referencing the Book of Mormon" I include a list of passages from modern revelation that show the Lord will fulfill His prophecies and we are expected...
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Maximum Extent of Book of Mormon Lands
My friend, Warren Aston, sent me some information a few days ago about modelers who posit Book of Mormon lands covering about 1.5 million square miles. The entire contiguous US is about 3.1 million...
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Worldviews
We like to think of ourselves as logical, rational beings. Most of us are not. A typical human puts an intellectual veneer atop a set of core beliefs that flow from his or her emotional identity. This...
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Free Nations
The Book of Mormon prophesies that as part of the gathering of Israel in the latter days the Gentiles who have scattered the remnant of the seed of Jacob will be established in the Americas as a free...
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