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“Somebody Wrote It:” The Book of Mormon’s Missionary Message to a 21st-Century World, Jim Bennett, January 17, 2020
Barriers to Belief: Mental Distress and Disaffection from the Church, Steven T. Densley, Jr. and Geret Giles, January 18, 2019
Celebrating the Work of John W. Welch, Steven T. Densley, Jr., January 19, 2018
Experiencing Battle in the Book of Mormon, Morgan Deane, January 20, 2017
The Case of Plural Was in the Earliest Text, Stanford Carmack, January 15, 2016
The Case of the {-th} Plural in the Earliest Text, Stanford Carmack, January 15, 2016
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