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Jurors Listening to Counsel, Supreme Court, New York City Hall, New York. Drawn by Winslow Homer, 1869. Image via Met Museum.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Joseph Smith—History 1:33; KnoWhy #616
Why Did Joseph Smith File a Legal Complaint against Doctor Philastus Hurlbut?
Image of U.S. Constitution via Pixabay.
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 101:77; KnoWhy #615
What Are the “Just and Holy Principles” of the US Constitution?
Statue of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. Image via Church of Jesus Christ.
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 135:4; KnoWhy #614
Why Was Hyrum Faithful to His Witness of the Book of Mormon?
Judith and Holofernes by Jan de Bray. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 91:1, 4–5; KnoWhy #613
Why Study Ancient Apocryphal Literature?
Photograph of Rebecca Swain Williams
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Ether 12:19; KnoWhy #612
Why Did Rebecca Swain Williams Defend the Book of Mormon?
Portrait of William McLellin via The Joseph Smith Papers.
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 66:1; KnoWhy #611
Why Did William E. McLellin Call the Book of Mormon the “Apple of My Eye”?
Image of praying person by congerdesign via Pixabay.
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 65:4; KnoWhy #610
Why Is Doctrine and Covenants 65 Called a Revelation on Prayer?
Photograph of David Whitmer.
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 14:8, 11; KnoWhy #609
Why Did David Whitmer Never Return to the Church?
Portrait of David Whitmer by Lewis Ramsey. Image of Kirtland Temple via Church of Jesus Christ.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 30:1; KnoWhy #608
Why Was David Whitmer Excommunicated from the Church?
Portrait of Martin Harris colorized by Bryce M. Haymond. Martin Harris's baptism certificate courtesy of Trace Mayer.
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 5:26; KnoWhy #607
Why Did Martin Harris Come Back to the Church?
Portrait of Martin Harris by Lewis A. Ramsay. One dollar bank note of the Kirtland Safety Society.
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 5:32; KnoWhy #606
Why Was Martin Harris Cut Off from the Church?
Oliver and Joseph by Vernon Murdock.
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 20:3; KnoWhy #605
Why Did Oliver Cowdery Come Back to the Church?
Bank notes of the Kirtland Safety Society. Landscape painting of Kirtland by Al Rounds.
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 64:21; KnoWhy #604
Why Did the Kirtland Safety Society Fail?
Portrait of Oliver Cowdery. Landscape of Far West by Al Rounds.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 20:3; KnoWhy #603
Why Was Oliver Cowdery Excommunicated from the Church?
Portrait of John Whitmer and text of D&C 15. Images via Joseph Smith Papers.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
The Testimony of Eight Witnesses; KnoWhy #602
Why Did John Whitmer Continue to Testify of the Book of Mormon?
Portrait of Sidney Rigdon with the manuscript of D&C 76 from The Joseph Smith Papers.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 35:3; KnoWhy #601
What Converted Sidney Rigdon to the Book of Mormon?
“Early Missionaries” by Robert Barrett
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Testimony of the Eight Witnesses; KnoWhy #600
Why Was Peter Whitmer Jr. Chosen to Witness the Gold Plates?
Image of Hiram Page Grave Site by Kenneth Mays.
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Testimony of the Eight Witnesses; KnoWhy #599
Why Did Hiram Page Remain Faithful to the Book of Mormon?
The Rise of the Church of Christ in These Last Days by Robert T. Barrett. Image via Church of Jesus Christ.
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 20:1; KnoWhy #598
How Did the Establishment of Jesus Christ’s Church in 1830 Comply with the Law?
The Book of Mormon with a Grandin Printing Press replica at the Crandall Printing Museum. Image by Daniel Smith.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
D&C 19:26; KnoWhy #597
Why Was Martin Harris Needed to Pay for the Printing of the Book of Mormon?
Castle at Tuloom by Frederick Catherwood. Image via Archive.org
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
D&C 17:1; KnoWhy #596
Why Did the Lord Command the Three Witnesses to Rely upon His Word?
Portrait of Joseph Knight. Artist Unknown.
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Doctrine and Covenants 12:6; KnoWhy #595
How Was the Joseph Knight Family Important to Bringing Forth the Book of Mormon?
Still Image from American Prophet
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Joseph Smith—History 1:56; KnoWhy #594
Why Was Joseph Smith Accused of Being a “Disorderly Person” in 1826?
Image by Scott G Winterton via Deseret News.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
D&C 6:1; 11:1; 12:1; 14:1; KnoWhy #593
Why Were So Many Sections in the Doctrine and Covenants Revealed during the Days When the Book of Mormon Was Being Translated?
Replica of the gold plates by David Baird.
Thursday, January 21, 2021
2 Nephi 11:3; KnoWhy #592
Why Did Martin Want a View of the Plates in March 1829?
“Christ Appears in the Kirtland Temple” by Walter Rane
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
3 Nephi 25:5–6; KnoWhy #591
Why Did Moroni Quote Malachi about Elijah’s Coming?
Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith, front of the 2013 edition of the Book of Mormon; cf. Joseph Smith—History 1:33; KnoWhy #590
Why Could Joseph Smith Testify in Court at Age 13?
Prospect of the City of New York. Image via the JCB Library.
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
2 Nephi 28:3–4; KnoWhy #589
Why was it Easy to Join a Church in Joseph Smith’s Day?
Moroni by Normandy Poulter and the BYU Virtual Scriptures Group.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Moroni 10:2; KnoWhy #588
Why Did Moroni Conclude with So Many Exhortations?
Image by Normandy Poulter and the Virtual Scriptures Group.
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Moroni 3:1–3; KnoWhy #587
Why Did Moroni Provide the Exact Wording of Priesthood Ordinances?