Many of the people who joined the early church were natives of the British isles. How did they learn about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ? Where in Great Britain did they come from? Who was sent to teach them? Join Professor Casey Griffiths as he travels to several locations in England—London, Liverpool, Preston, and more—to explore church history in the British Isles. The First British...

The Book of Mormon states that King Zedekiah had a son named Mulek who, unlike his brothers, avoided execution when Babylon conquered Jerusalem in 587 BC. On its face, this claim may seem rather doubtful, and perhaps even unbelievable. After all, the King James Bible doesn’t say anything about Mulek, and some people question whether many biblical figures ever really existed. But not all is as it...

View a new 30-minute film on Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac produced by Book of Mormon Central and Messages of Christ: Teaser Trailer: For the Book of Mormon Central’s video team, telling the story of Abraham and Sarah was a lofty vision, and almost seemed out of reach. They needed many miracles to be able to pull it off. Daniel Smith, who manages Book of Mormon Central’s video team as well as the...

Could ancient Americans really have known how to make cement? The Book of Mormon says yes. As recorded in Helaman 3:7, the people in the land northward “became exceedingly expert in the working of cement.” They built houses and even cities of the stuff. Yet only in recent decades have scholars widely recognized that pre-Columbian peoples actually knew about this invaluable building material...

In the October 1988 general conference, President Ezra Taft Benson declared, “I have a vision of flooding the earth with the Book of Mormon.” He said, “The time is long overdue for a massive flooding of the earth with the Book of Mormon,” and stressed the need to take advantage of “the electronic media and the mass distributions of the printed word” that was available at that time. As...

I’ll be honest, when I received my endowment, I didn’t have the greatest experience. I hadn’t taken a temple preparation class, and I had heard some misinformation about the temple that made me nervous. In short, I probably wasn’t ready to attend the temple. Fortunately, my parents encouraged me to go back, and after a few more visits to the temple I loved it, and felt its spiritual power. But...

As part of a new video series, Evidence Central's YouTube channel has released a new video on Steel Swords in the Book of Mormon entitled, “ Questions and Evidences #121 Valley of Lemuel .” This video draws from Evidence #121 on the Evidence Central website on The Valley of Lemuel . Thanks to archaeology and on-the-ground surveying, scholars have made progress in identifying locations mentioned...

As part of a new video series, Evidence Central's YouTube channel has released a new video on steel swords in the Book of Mormon entitled, “ Questions and Evidences #135 Laban's Steel Sword .” This video draws from Evidence #135 on the Evidence Central website on Laban’s steel sword . Some people have suggested that Laban’s sword in 1 Nephi 4:9 is an anachronism, based on the assumption that...

Joseph Smith had just been murdered, and the Saints in Nauvoo were fleeing persecution. It was now Brigham Young's turn to lead the Saints to safety. But where? Did you know that Joseph Smith appeared to Brigham Young in a vision, showing him a hill with a flag on it? And have you ever seen the flag representing the Kingdom of God? Learn about this miraculous vision and much more in our new video...

In what is probably one of Alma’s most oft-repeated sermons, he compares the word to a seed and encourages us to plant it in our hearts (see Alma 32:28). About a century later, Jesus Christ would use this same comparison when he gives what is commonly known as the Parable of the Sower (see Matthew 13:1-9). He tells of a sower who casts the seeds on four types of soils. Only the seeds sown on the...