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Loren Blake Spendlove

About Loren Blake Spendlove

Loren Spendlove has earned the following degrees: MA, Jewish Studies, PhD, Education, and Master of Business Administration (MBA). He is currently working on a MA in Christian Scripture. He has worked in many professional fields, including academics and corporate financial management. A student of languages, his research interests center on linguistics and etymology. Loren and Tina are the parents of five children and 12 grandchildren.

Witness of the Covenant

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Sep 15, 2023 | 12 comments

Stained Swords: A Psalm of Redemption

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Dec 30, 2022 | 1 comment

Rethinking the Encounter between Jacob and Sherem

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Nov 25, 2022 | 9 comments

Hannah’s Adversity and Peninnah’s Redemption

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Sep 9, 2022 | 1 comment

There Is No Beauty That We Should Desire Him

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Aug 26, 2022 | 3 comments

The Word of the Lord as a Metonym for Christ

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Dec 3, 2021 | 6 comments

Abraham’s Amen and Believing in Christ: Possible Applications in the Book of Mormon Text

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Nov 19, 2021 | 4 comments

Mine House is a House of Zion and not a House of Babylon!

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Oct 29, 2021 | 3 comments

Discipleship As the World Collapses Around You

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Jun 4, 2021 | 0 comments

And the One Pointed the Way: Issues of Interpretation and Translation Involving the Liahona

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Apr 30, 2021 | 16 comments

Now If This Is Boasting, Even So Will I Boast!

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Apr 3, 2020 | 8 comments

“Thou Art the Fruit of My Loins”: The Interrelated Symbolism and Meanings of the Names Joseph and Ephraim in Ancient Scripture,

by Matthew L. Bowen and Loren Blake Spendlove | Apr 13, 2018 | 4 comments

A Tibetan Parable

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Mar 11, 2017 | 1 comment

Turning to the Lord With the Whole Heart: The Doctrine of Repentance in the Bible and the Book of Mormon

by Loren Blake Spendlove and Tina Spendlove | Jun 10, 2016 | 3 comments

Say Now Shibboleth, or Maybe Cumorah

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Apr 24, 2015 | 9 comments

Whoso Forbiddeth to Abstain from Meats

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Jan 16, 2015 | 29 comments

Understanding Nephi with the Help of Noah Webster

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Jul 25, 2014 | 7 comments

Limhi’s Discourse: Proximity and Distance in Teaching

by Loren Blake Spendlove | Nov 15, 2013 | 3 comments

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