Taking the Book of Mormon seriously

Here is the first speech of Alma the Younger after his conversion. And it came to pass after they had fasted and prayed for the space of two...

In my post " The white blood of Jesus " (June 18) on my other blog, I explored the idea that the flesh and blood of Jesus is, at l...

The strongest evidence against the proposition that " Alma introduced baptism to the Nephites " is to be found in 2 Nephi 31. This...

In my last post, I argue that " Alma introduced baptism to the Nephites " -- meaning the actual practice  of baptism; clearly they...

The first account of Nephites practicing baptism is at the Waters of Mormon, where Alma baptized himself and his followers. Alma had fled fr...

"Touch these stones, O Lord, with thy finger" (Ether 3:4), said the Brother of Jared, apparently taking it for granted that the Lo...

And one Middle-Eastern one. It is often said that the Book was written "for our day," but one rarely feels it viscerally, and as o...