Welcome to season 3!  We introduce our themes for the year, and after that take a deep dive on baptism.

This year we’ll be focusing on change in the church, and how our expectations of true doctrine clash with the realities of a people-led church.

Notes:

“I’m coming to the conclusion that 1933 was the hinge upon which modern Mormonism pivoted: It was the year BH Roberts died and J Reuben Clark joined the First Presidency, thus marking the sunset of one potential Mormon trajectory and the dawn of another.” -Benjamin Park

https://twitter.com/BenjaminEPark/status/1299770339971526656

Wikipedia for B. H. Roberts and J. Reuben Clark:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Roberts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Reuben_Clark

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince

https://www.amazon.com/David-McKay-Rise-Modern-Mormonism/dp/0874808227

Comic on B.H. Roberts, from The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Part One, by Scott Givens (click ‘look inside’ and search for doubts)

https://amzn.to/31XkLU8

4th article of faith

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1.4#4

Gospel topics: Baptism

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/baptism

D&C 76

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/76

Eric’s lecture on the first vision:

https://youtu.be/aFSicnZ3B3k

Gospel topic on the vision, or D&C 76.  See especially the vido linked therein:

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/the-vision-dc-76

D&C 19:15-19

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/19.15-19#15

Sin Does Not Exist: And Believing That It Does Is Ruining Us, by S. Richard Bellrock

https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/sin-does-not-exist/

A Monopoly on Exaltation, by user Ziff

https://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2020/08/24/a-monopoly-on-exaltation/

The Mediator, by Boyd K. Packer.  ← Powerful atonement talk

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1977/04/the-mediator

Twitter thread on the Mediator, see several links here:

https://twitter.com/thmazing/status/1301747609854332928