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I heard about this book somewhere and I went and found it. It was called Money for Nothing About People Who Won The Lottery. And roughly half of the chapters people said, they had one million dollars and they said, this is the worst thing that's ever happened to me.

He wrote a book called Terrible Revolution, Latter-day Saints in the American Apocalypse. It was published by Oxford University Press.

In fact, I chose one when I did my book, Terrible Revolution. One of the covers is an image that Joseph Smith had in his office of these four horsemen.

In 1st Nephi, I found that this book was really important.

Not only is Nephi giving us a reading of the Book of Revelation and his beautiful vision of his father's dream, but there's a passage that says John's ordained to give this revelation.

JB, I want to quote you back to you. You can tell me how much you love this quote because it came from such a brilliant person who's with us today. This is back to your BYU devotional, Wrestling with Comparisons.

You said, there is no question that you and I are going to fail at many things we attempt to do. And in the eyes of those making comparisons, we all are repeatedly going to fall short. There's always a bigger fish, so to speak.

Do not let the temptation to compare give these disappointments destructive power.

Here's a really nice Latter-day Saint take on this, what might be perceived as kind of a conflict between faith and works. And I think this captures that sense of the unity. This comes from David Holland, who teaches at the Harvard Divinity School, a brilliant mind. He wrote this essay in the Oxford Handbook on Mormonism, and it's about open canon and revelation.

He's talking about the restoration thinking suggests the possibility that a great profusion of divine words, even with many of those words in tension with each other, might result in a greater unity of purpose and understanding than a smaller, more restrained set of revelations.

He's the author of "The Mormon Image in the American Mind", 50 Years of Public Perception. That was published by Oxford in 2013.

He wrote this book, an author's diary about his experiences the first six months after Rough Stone Rolling was published. He's going around and speaking, and he responded to some questions that came to him from a Latter-day Saint who just wrote in with some questions about Joseph Smith.

If they have, then you want to treat them with respect. As with science, a religion that works and produces results has to be taken seriously. Others might give you other advice, but this has worked for me after all of these years of studying Joseph's life, I believe more than ever.

He wrote an article in the Religious Educator called For Our Good.

If you've ever read Plato's Allegory of the Cave, you have a decent sense of how this image of types and shadows work.

The way that it works is that things on earth that we see are simply a shadow of the true heavenly realities.

She said, when you face the sun, the shadows of discouragement fall behind you.

I can only remember one line in that book, and it was this young adult talking to his grandma who said to him, giving him advice, marry someone who knows how to be content.

When our twin daughters were small, we decided to take them to the public pool and teach them how to swim. I remember starting with Rebecca.

As I went down into the water with Rebecca, I thought, I'm going to teach her how to swim. But as we went down into the water, in her mind was the thought, my dad is going to drown me. I'm going to die.

The water was only three and a half feet deep, but Becky was only three feet deep. She was so petrified that she began to scream and cry and kick and scratch and was unteachable. Finally, I just had to grab her.

I threw my arms around her and I just held her. And I said, Becky, I've got you. I'm your dad. I love you. I'm not going to let anything bad happen to you. Now relax.

Bless her heart. She trusted me. She relaxed. And I put my arms under her and said, OK, now kick with your legs. And we began to learn how to swim.

why was it a stumbling block to teach Christ crucified? For Paul and other first century Jews, the disciples' declaration that Jesus had been crucified was an oxymoron.

The Messiah could not be crucified. A crucified man could not be the Messiah.

For the law states, as you just said, Jared, he that is hanged is accursed of God.

the great thing is to direct the malice of the person he's trying to tempt to his immediate neighbors whom he meets every day and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know. The malice then becomes real and the benevolence largely imaginary.

Vincent's Word Studies was written by Marvin Vincent, who was born in the early 1800s, wrote 2600 pages on his commentary on the Bible. It's one of those on Bible Hub. And this is what he writes about 1 Corinthians 15 29.

If you read things like the Iliad, the Odyssey, The Aeneid, you have visitations to the spirit world and the spirits are dismal, great heroes caught in the spirit world.