Professor Stephen Webb (1961-2016) was a devout Christian but not a Latter-day Saint. He wrote the book Mormon Christianity: What Other...

Section 137 Soteriology (so·te·ri·ol·o·gy) is theology about salvation. Christianity’s  soteriological problem is based on three...

Section 124 Joseph emerged from the depressing jail in Liberty, Missouri with an undaunted spirit. He had known since January 1838 that...

Section 115 Revelation, 26 April 1838 [D&C 115]. Image courtesy of josephsmithpapers.org. In December 1836, the Missouri state...

Section 111 The revelation of section 111 on August 6, 1836 reoriented Joseph and his companions. They had been preoccupied with paying...

Section 109 Prayer of Dedication, 27 March 1836. Joseph’s cousin George A. Smith reported that “When the dedication prayer was read by...

Section 106 Warren Cowdery, Oliver’s older brother, ledged and fed Joseph and his companions when the were recruiting for the Camp of...

Section 102 Joseph Smith convened councils to arbitrate and adjudicate church decisions, especially disciplinary decisions. These...

Section 98 Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 18 August 1833. Image courtesy of josephsmithpapers.org In the summer of...

Section 94 Section 94 may make more sense after you have studied sections 95 and 96 and 97, because it was actually revealed right after...

Section 93 In his inimitable way, BYU philosophy professor Truman Madsen related an anecdote during a presentation he gave at the Yale...

Section 89 Most everyone drank in the 1820s and 1830s, Joseph Smith included. [1]  Distillers in his upstate New York neighborhood made...

Section 88 Samuel H. Smith, Journal entry describing Section 88, Church History Library, Salt Lake City. Three months after receiving...

Section 85 The leaders of the church in Missouri grew troubled. Saints were gathering there by the hundreds. Relatively few of them were...

Section 84 In section 57 the Lord identified the site for his temple in Zion. That was the first reference to a specific Latter-day...

Section 81 Revelation, 15 March 1832. Image courtesy of josephsmithpapers.org. It is very good to have your sins blotted out. It is not...

Section 77 Having been treated to section 76 in February 1832 for his efforts to understand and revise the Bible, Joseph continued his...

Section 76 Various people love Joseph Smith or object to him for the same reason: he revealed “realms of doctrine unimagined in...

Sections 71 & 73 Ezra Booth was a talented Methodist preacher who visited Joseph Smith at his home in Kirtland in 1831 with his wife,...

Section 67 In November 1831, Joseph convened a council at the Johnson home in Hiram, Ohio and laid the manuscript Book of Commandments...