Section 18 The Lord revealed section 18 because Joseph, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer desired to know how to build the Church of...

Sections 14, 15, 16 Oliver Cowdery kept his acquaintance, David Whitmer, informed about the translation of the Book of Mormon. When...

Section 12 A revelation given to Joseph Knight Sr. in Harmony, Pennsylvania, May 1829. Image courtesy of josephsmithpapers.org. In the...

Section 10 Preface to the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon. Image courtesy of josephsmithpapers.org If Joseph Smith’s revelations were...

Section 6 Revelation given through Joseph Smith to Oliver Cowdery in April 1829. Image courtesy of josephsmithpapers.org Early in 1829,...

Section 3 A respected and prosperous farmer from Palmyra, New York, Martin Harris, left his home in the spring of 1828 and traveled...

The Doctrine and Covenants is a problem solver. Every section in it resolves a problem or a dilemma. Joseph Smith learned as a youth that...

Sorry I’ve been away. I was excited to blog about Joseph Smith’s first vision throughout the bicentennial celebration in 2020. I wrote...

Why is this even a question? Doesn’t everyone know that Joseph Smith was 14 when he saw God and Jesus Christ in a grove? The answer is...

Did Joseph Smith see one divine being or two in his first vision?  The question may seem absurd to Latter-day Saints who can quote the...

In my last post I wrote about the dilemma between Joseph’s head and heart that led him to seek and receive the revelation we call his...

There is a dilemma at the heart of Joseph Smith’s first vision accounts. It is hidden in plain sight. Once you see it you wonder how you...

There is so much more to the story of Joseph Smith’s first vision than is commonly known Besides the familiar account included in the...

“At about the age of twelve years,” Joseph Smith wrote, “my mind became seriously impressed with regard to the all important concerns for...

In philosophical terms, Joseph’s first vision is epistemological (e-pis-tem-a-loj-i-cal).  Epistemology is the philosophy of knowing. It...

Joseph Smith, Christmas, and the End of the World Today’s post discusses what the Lord’s Christmas day 1832 revelation to Joseph Smith...

My oldest brother was born on December 13, 1955. He would be 64 today. He was killed in 1993 in a terrible car accident. It was the worst...

The Example of Emma Hale Smith Can Help Artwork by Julie Rogers Recently a living prophet, Russell M. Nelson, declared something that has...

Joseph Fielding Smith stood at the Tabernacle pulpit In Salt Lake City on the second day of General Conference in April 1920. “One theme...

What are Latter-day Saints planning for the bicentennial of Joseph Smith’s First Vision in 2020? A living prophet, Russel M. Nelson,...