2025 Come, Follow Me Resources: Doctrine and Covenants

Come Follow Me Resources: Doctrine and Covenants

We have compiled our resources on this page to support your weekly Come, Follow Me studies. We hope that this will both inspire and fortify your testimony of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and help you engage with the world of religious ideas.

Blog Posts

In 2025, the Maxwell Institute is offering a bi-weekly series of adaptions from the Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants series in support of the Church-wide Come, Follow Me study curriculum. We hope these explorations will enrich your study and teaching of the Doctrine and Covenants throughout the coming year.

A Constitution for All by Justin Collings (adapted from Divine Law)
Seeing With Our Whole Bodies by Mason Kamana Allred (adapted from Seeing)

Books

Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants: Agency by Terryl Givens (2024)
Can your choices affect God’s plans? Are there times when being “acted upon” is a good thing? Does following a covenant path make you less “authentic”? If you are born with a particular nature and disposition, just how free are you? And how responsible are you for the choices you make?

Agency

Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants: Divine Aid by Amy Easton (2024)
The Doctrine and Covenants provides profound insight into the never-ending mercy, aid, encouragement, and opportunities that the Lord Jesus Christ—as the dominant voice in the Doctrine and Covenants—offers His people. In the Doctrine and Covenants, individuals are not defined by their shortcomings. Rather the Lord is constantly encouraging them to leave their weaknesses behind and to move forward. The images of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ in the Doctrine and Covenants are certainly not ones of remote gods but rather of a loving Divine Father and a Savior who are deeply invested in humanity’s welfare.

Divine Aid

Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants: Divine Law by Justin Collings (2024)
Law, for many of us, is a scary word. It conjures imposing images—robed judges with imperious gavels or Lady Justice, blindfolded, with her implacable sword and scales. Even in a religious context—perhaps especially in a religious context—many of us associate law instinctively with divine judgment and justice, retribution and eternal punishment. Many of us think of law as an unrelenting standard against which we fall endlessly short. Law, on this view, is the enemy against which we need grace to defend us.

Divine Law

Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants: Redeeming the Dead by Amy Harris (2024)
Redemption for the dead taps into the deepest purposes of creation and the atonement. It encompasses individuals’ development, the purpose of existence, and the grand scope of God’s love. Revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants illuminate Malachi’s prophecy about Elijah and the turning of humanity’s hearts to one another. Those revelations combined with the lived experience of early Latter-day Saints highlight the joy embedded in the theology about baptisms for the dead.

Redeeming the Dead

Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants: Revelation by Janiece Johnson (2024)

Revelation is the indispensable part of the Restoration. It is central to our existence as the restored Church of Jesus Christ, and it can come to us in a multitude of different ways. Throughout his life, Joseph Smith revealed that speaking is a part of who God is. He laid a foundation for a theology of what this book calls “revelatory abundance.”

Revelation

Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants: Seeing by Mason Kamana Allred (2024)
In this introduction to the Doctrine and Covenants, Media Studies scholar Mason Kamana Allred focuses our vision on practices and principles of seeing. He looks at how looking itself is a unique devotional mode in Latter-day Saint belief. His reading of the Doctrine and Covenants collects theological statements about and experiences of spiritual vision and emphasizes how they are often activated through natural vision and earthly commitment in ways that illuminate how to navigate our modern circumstances.

Seeing

Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants: Time by Philip Barlow (2024)
A volume on time may seem a puzzling inclusion in a series exploring themes in the Doctrine and Covenants. However, some refrains remain invisible until we conceive and name them, which allows us to probe. The Doctrine and Covenants has enough to say about time, once we know how to look for it, that it might well change how we engage the gospel and our lives.

Time

Podcasts

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Artwork

Book of Mormon Art Catalog – The Book of Mormon Art Catalog now contains artwork inspired by Church History and the Doctrine and Covenants.

"The Book of Mormon Art Catalog is the most comprehensive catalog of visual artwork inspired by the Book of Mormon, Church History, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. It is intended to be comprehensive, bringing together for the first time Book of Mormon art from a range of public and private collections, museums, and the collections of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including some artwork that is not posted elsewhere."

Browse the Artwork Here