Mormon 1-6

READING FOR MARCH 31

Mormon 7-9

RECORDING OF CLASS ON MARCH 24

Following is the link for the recording of class for those of you who could not attend. I forgot to start recording at the beginning of class, so the playback begins a couple of minutes into our lesson. Sorry!

Thanks to those who were able to join our session! Thanks for your comments and insights. What a blessing it is to be together in this time of difficulty.

Meeting Recording:
https://zoom.us/rec/share/7-ktMeH1rUVJaNbysHPifKw6EtzfX6a82nNM8qEMxBoYji0GNilVf8_Lp5oKEPLV

MORMON

“In the midst of devastation and depravity, a loving and intimate portrait of a father and son is revealed in the books of Mormon and Moroni.The glaring contrast between the world in which Mormon and Moroni lived and their own lives and relationship with each other is a fitting end to the Book of Mormon. Of course, it was in the end a team effort that allowed the modern reader to have the sacred record at all.The pattern set by Lehi and Nephi at the beginning of the record is followed and repeated at the end of the book by a righteous son following his father. Mormon and Moroni’s love, respect and tenderness towards each other is made all the more poignant by the fact that they lived in such a brutal and wicked society.”

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/mormon-man-and-message

 THE TEN YEAR PEACE TREATY

“According Robin J. DeWitt Knauth, ‘The Year of Jubilee ... is the last layer in the extension of the Sabbath principle.’ Being the pinnacle of the sabbatical system, the jubilee year came every fifty years. It is easy to imagine that a people who saw significance in calendrical cycles of seven would surely have noticed that this jubilee year in the 350th year was not just any jubilee—it was the seventh jubilee since the birth of Christ (350 being 7 x 50).
Given the decadence and wickedness among both the Nephites and the Lamanites, it is hard to say if the symbolic importance of that year was widely recognized. Mormon, no doubt, was aware, and as the Chief Captain of the Nephite armies, he was probably instrumental in negotiating the terms and timing of the treaty.
Resting the land was central to both the jubilee law in general and to this treaty in particular.The jubilee was intended to be ‘a year of rest for the land.’ It was also a time when ‘land was to be restored to its original inherited line of ownership.’
It therefore seems significant that at a time when land was supposed to be restored to its proper owner, large portions of Nephite and Lamanite lands were reallocated under the terms of this ten- year treaty. Any Nephites who still celebrated the jubilee could not have missed the significance: in the Lord’s eyes, they were no longer the proper owners of any land south of the narrow neck.”

https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/why-is-the-10-year-peace-treaty-important

 HINGE POINT

“A hinge is a point in a lesson when you need to check if students are ready to move on, and if yes, in which direction; a hinge-point question is a diagnostic question that you ask your students when you reach the hinge, responses to which give you evidence about what you and your students need to do next.”

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/assessment-for-learning-stem/0/steps/7332

“The phrase has several applications in the technical language of engineering, construction, anatomy, even orthopedic reconstructive surgery. Generally, it’s the point where a mechanism pivots.
The evangelical minister was of course using the term metaphorically as a turning point or point at which a significant change takes place.”

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/03/a-hinge-point-of-history.html

A HingePoint is the point where something literally pivots.It’s the turning point where you are going to see a significant change take place.

"WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE WILL LATTER-DAY SAINTS BE IN A GLOBAL APOCALYPSE?"

“The apocalyptic genre is about revealing. But it’s not revealing the future — it’s not a crystal ball — it’s revealing something that is already true about us. It’s revealing things about our culture we don’t want to admit. The coronavirus is already shining a light into some dark places, both in the
U.S. and the world. This is an apocalypse. It will help to reveal who we are individually.And for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, how we respond to this moment will define our identity going forward."

“I’m not saying this move wasn’t inspired; I’m saying this is hardly the time to crow about it. If you’re a Latter-day Saint who thinks the decision was inspired because the Lord was interested in saving you and your family, full stop, you’ve entirely missed the point.
The point was to save everybody.The point is always to save everybody.”

“What is perhaps most poignant to me about this coronavirus is how naked and vulnerable we all stand in the face of it. All of us. No one appears to have immunity from prior exposure, and no one has been vaccinated. In terms of apocalypses that reveal who we really are, here’s a stark image:This particular apocalypse is revealing that we’re every bit as helpless as we were when we emerged from our mothers’ wombs.
Instead of allowing that to make me afraid, I want to allow it to break me open and help me become something more than I would otherwise be. I am a helpless infant, yes, but a helpless infant who is beloved of Heavenly Parents who desire the flourishing of all their children.”

Jana Riess:“What kind of people will Latter-day Saints be in a global apocalypse?"
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/03/20/jana-riess-what-kind/