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Lehi Announces Departure by Owen Richardson

When Did Lehi Leave Jerusalem?

Thursday, October 11, 2018

"Tree of Life and Rod of Iron" by Jerry Thompson via LDS Media Library

Why Are There So Many Similarities between the Dreams of Lehi and Joseph Smith, Sr.?

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Image via Pensacola Christian College

Why Did Book of Mormon Prophets Quote Long Passages of Scripture?

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Egyptian Sword. Image via Wikimedia Commons

Why Does the Book of Mormon Mention Cimeters?

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

"Ye Shall Have My Words" by Judith Mehr

Why Can Nephi’s Vision Be Called an Apocalypse?

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Labna Sacbe via voyagecirtuel.co.uk

Is There Evidence for Book of Mormon Highways in Ancient America?

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Painting by Robert T. Barrett. Image via LDS Media Library

Why Are Lehi’s Visions Like Those of Other Prophets in His Day?

Thursday, September 20, 2018

1 Nephi 1:11-12

Mormon Abridging the Plates by Tom Lovell. Image via LDS Media Library

How Does Chiasmus Teach Us to Reverse the Pride Cycle?

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Photograph taken by Daniel Smith

Why Does the Book of Mormon Say We Must Worship God with Our Whole Soul?

Thursday, September 13, 2018

“The Olive Grove” by Nancy Andruk Olson

Was Lehi Familiar with Zenos’s Allegory of the Olive Tree?

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

“Lehi’s Family Leaving Jerusalem” by Scott Snow via LDS Media Library

How Many Others Traveled with Lehi to the Promised Land?

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Still Image from “Son of God”

Who Were the “Elders of the Jews” Mentioned by Zoram?

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

“Jeremiah in Prison” by Robert T. Barrett

How Could Nephi Have Known about Jeremiah’s Imprisonment?

Thursday, August 30, 2018

“The Meeting of Esau and Jacob” by James Tissot

Why Was It Significant that Nephi Was Made ‘a Ruler and a Teacher’ Over His Brethren?

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Ancient Records by James H. Fullmer

Where Is the Narrative Transition in 1 Nephi?

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Etching of Joseph Smith Climbing Fence from The Smith Family Farm

Why Are People Exhausted by Powerful Spiritual Experiences?

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

The Assumption of the Virgin by Botticini

Why Are Lehi’s First Visions So Similar to Much Later Apocalyptic Writings?

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Still Image from “The Zoramites and the Rameumpton” via LDS Media Library

How is the Name Zoram Connected with Pride?

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Image via LDS Media Library

What Did It Mean for Lehi to be a Visionary Man?

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Photo by Stephen Leonardi on Unsplash

Is the Path to Eternal Life “Strait” or “Straight"?

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

“Mary Whitmer and Moroni” by Robert T. Pack

What Does Mary Whitmer Teach Us About Enduring Trials?

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Illustration of the Kinderhook plates and the Nauvoo Neighbor broadside. Image via Book of Mormon Central

What Do the Kinderhook Plates Reveal About Joseph Smith’s Gift of Translation?

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

“The Hill Cumorah” by George Anderson via history.lds.org

How Are Oliver Cowdery’s Messenger and Advocate Letters to Be Understood and Used?

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Still Image from Joseph Smith: Plates of Gold

What Was on the Lost 116 Pages?

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

“The Flight of the Prisoners,” by James Jacques Joseph Tissot

Why Did Some in Lehi’s Time Believe that Jerusalem Could Not Be Destroyed?

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Two Oxhyrhynchus Didache Fragments via bricecjones.com

What Can an Ancient Christian Text Tell us About the Book of Mormon?

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

“The Resurrected Christ” by Wilson J. Omg

What Does the Abish Story Signal About the Resurrection?

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Image of Christ via LDS Media Library

Why Did Nephi Clarify That the Messiah Was the Savior of the World?

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

“Nefi ora con Liahona” by Jorge Cocco

How Can We Be Delivered through the Lord’s Tender Mercies?

Thursday, July 5, 2018

The "Lake of Fire" from Spell 126 of the Book of the Dead via Universität Heidelberg

Why Does the Book of Mormon Warn that a Lake of Fire and Brimstone Awaits Sinners in the Afterlife?

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

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