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Deconstructed: Sacrament Prayers

29 Aug 20217 Mar 2022

The sacrament prayers are much like two covers of a book that is opened and closed each time they are invoked. The first prayer, over the bread, begins a new…

The Mechanics of Hearing Him

19 Aug 20211 Mar 2022

The voice of the Good Shepherd is a doctrinal subject worth our most careful study at this time. It is inexorably tied to the gift of the Holy Ghost, which,…

The Word of God, Checked and Balanced

18 Aug 202123 Feb 2022

Brigham Young once prophetically lamented the state of the kingdom of heaven before the son of man would come: "You may know whether you are led right or wrong, as…

The Elevated View

3 Aug 202123 Jan 2022

Sometimes you feel like you're doing everything right in life. And in those moments the unfair events in life seem like a sign that maybe you aren't doing everything right…

I Read More Than Was Written

24 Jul 20217 Jan 2022

I remember one of my first experiences with revelation while reading the word of God. I was maybe 16 years-old at the time, and I was reading the farewell of…

The Missing Piece to the Soul’s Puzzle

21 Jul 20217 Jan 2022

The scriptures provide this interesting formula, placing Christ squarely at the center of all revelation: "After ye had received the Holy Ghost ye could speak with the tongue of angels....…

Classic Truth: Safety With Knowledge, Capsized Without

13 Apr 20217 Jan 2022

"If a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this life through his diligence and obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come"…

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Five-hundred Miles Per Hour at Thirty-thousand Feet

11 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, I want to return to the subject of information missing from scripture. Even including The Book of Mormon, there's still a big chunk of really important stuff missing, confused,…

The Key to the Science of Theology is a book written by the Apostle Parley P. Pratt, published in 1855, two years before his martyrdom. The author of this site, Joseph, has studied the Gospel of Jesus Christ as restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. in great depth for over a decade. It is his conviction that the writing of Parley P. Pratt most accurately conveys in succinct form what Joseph Smith Jr. had been piecing together all his life. This blog is an ode to that triumphant work and the glorious future it prophetically envisions.