Richard Bushman once told me that panic precedes revelation. Dr. Bushman was discussing the process by which Joseph Smith received the First Vision (recall the line from the Pearl of Great Price tha

Isaiah. Latter-day Saints have a special relationship to this Old Testament prophet. Not only do we recognize prophets across all dispensations, but his words were carried by Lehis family to the Amer

Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs can fall by the wayside when we study them in Sunday School. They dont always fit into the narratives that we understand about dispensations of authority

Kate Holbrook, PhD (19722022) was a leading voice in the study of Latter-day Saintwomen and Latter-day Saint foodways. As managing historian of womens history atthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-

A book has many lives. Its thought, its edited, its printed, its reprinted, its commentated on, and this repeats, if the book merits it, ad infinitum. This is certainly true for the Bible as a wh

In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nations sacred religious and legal texts the Bible and the Constitution to address the slavery crisis. The ensuing political debates

In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation’s sacred religious and legal texts – the Bible and the Constitution – to address the slavery crisis. The ensuing political debates

One of the first things I tell my students, and that I repeat throughout a semester, is that texts do not interpret themselves. Every time a person reads scripture they see it with new eyes and with s

Psalms! Theres over 150 of them marked in the book by the same name in the Old Testament. How can we read them? Are they more useful as a narrative thread, or as a spice to season our spiritual diet?

Job, as a literary and biblical figure, gives us a lot to think about. He goes from riches to rags to riches again. He loses his family but begins another. Hes at the center of a contest between god