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Helaman 1-6: The Hero's Journey
August 26, 2024 01:04 PM
Do you know this story? A young person of no special consequence happens across a seemingly nondescript object that turns out to be imbued with power. The object leads them on a journey through magical lands and unknown regions, toiling up forbidding mountains and facing their fears in murky forests.
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Alma 53-63: Happy for Someone Else’s Miracle
August 18, 2024 04:07 PM
The stories associated with Helaman’s 2000 stripling warriors always stand out at the end of the book of Alma, even in a block of eleven chapters (Alma 53-63) filled with all kinds of action-packed episodes and characters. And rightly so, given how remarkable and memorable—and miraculous—the experiences of Helaman’s band truly were.
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Art Highlight: I Will Stand As the Oceans Roar
August 14, 2024 01:11 PM
This artwork and its accompanying caption were created by Meranda Brodowski, a student artist and designer at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Meranda is from California and has worked at the Maxwell Institute since January. She is a Fine Arts Major at Brigham Young University, with an emphasis in technology. She strives to create inspiring artwork that represents her faith and testimony.
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Alma 43-52: The Irreplaceable Weapon
August 11, 2024 12:28 PM
Shortly after I started my PhD program at the University of Edinburgh, my parents came to visit us in Scotland. Walking along the busy Princes Street, my dad couldn’t take his eyes off of the iconic Edinburgh Castle, which sits atop an extinct volcano in the center of the city.
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Alma 39-42: The Justice of God
August 04, 2024 04:47 PM
Corianton was not the only soul to be disturbed by the scriptural language of punishment, misery, and retribution. What Christian has not been troubled by the prevalence of images of anger and doom that await the wicked?
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Alma 36-38: Judgment and Transformation
July 28, 2024 12:07 PM
Alma the Younger’s conversion is one of the more memorable stories in the Book of Mormon-- not only because it is recounted three times (first in Mosiah 27, then to his sons Helaman and Shiblon in Alma chapters 36 and 38) but because of its tenebristic drama.
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Alma 32-35: Planting Love
July 21, 2024 01:35 PM
Scripture does not read itself; no text does. It takes a reader to come along and make sense of the language on the page for it to have meaning that persists in the world. Scripture is a particularly rich site of meaning-making because of all the ways that we, as a community of faith, invest it with authority.
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Alma 30-31: Foolishness and Covenant Knowledge
July 14, 2024 09:32 AM
We often focus on Korihor’s worldview. We zoom in on his shift between agnosticism and atheism. Another way to approach this text is to examine how Korihor frames the church. Paul taught that the wisdom of God is foolishness to the world (see 1 Corinthians 2:14).
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Alma 23-29: Superman, Strawberry Ice Cream, and Stains
July 08, 2024 02:04 PM
As a young boy, my favorite superhero was Superman. I often wore a blue t-shirt with the iconic S symbol under a white dress shirt like Superman’s alter ego, Clark Kent. Sometimes, I even wore a clip-on tie.
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