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Essays

Longer reflections that sit alongside the harmony: on the prophets' witness of Christ, on what the Restoration restores, and on reading the life of Christ as one story.

• The Gospel from the Beginning September 24, 2026 Christ defined His gospel in His own words. Joseph Smith restored it through the Book of Mormon, the Joseph Smith Translation, and his revelations, and showed that it was the same gospel preached from the beginning.
• The Prophets All Testified of Christ In progress
• The Seed of the Woman In progress

Timelines

• A Prophet Like unto Moses 20 references Moses promised that the Lord would raise up a prophet like him, and warned what would follow for those who would not hear. Here is every place the scriptures take up that promise, in the order it was spoken.
• The Sign of Jonah 8 references Asked for a sign, Jesus gave only one: the sign of the prophet Jonah. Here is every place the scriptures take it up, from the fish to the empty tomb.

Passages read in full

• Psalm 22 Psalm 22 The psalm Jesus cried from the cross, read whole: the King James with Joseph Smith’s revisions to nine of its verses marked, beside the Greek Septuagint, what survives of it among the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the words of the New Testament that quote it.
• The Suffering Servant Isaiah 52:13–53:12 Isaiah’s song of the servant who is despised, wounded for our transgressions and numbered with the transgressors: the chapter the Gospels, Acts and Peter read as the suffering of Christ. Here it is whole, the King James beside the Book of Mormon, the Greek Septuagint and the Great Isaiah Scroll from Qumran, with the one word Joseph Smith changed.