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• ↓ Kingdoms of Glory and Astronomical Apparent Magnitude
• ↓ Constructing in our Meetings (Or What Did Church Lead You to Think About Yesterday), 9/6
• ↓ CFM 9/14-9/20: Thoughts and Poetry for “God Is My Salvation”
• ↓ The Spiritual and Social Goals of the Deseret Alphabet
• ↓ The Kids are All Right: Church Activity, the Youth, and the Best and the Brightest
• ↓ Cutting Edge Latter-day Saint Research, August 2026
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"How much more glorious is the celestial kingdom than the terrestrial? D&C 76 likens the difference between the Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial Kingdoms to the difference between the sun, moon, and stars respectively. We can intuit this by sight, of course, but how much of a difference is this numerically?  Thankfully, astronomy has a rigorous concept that measures how bright celestial objects are to each other: apparent magnitude (all quotes and numbers are from the Wikipedia article). “The scale is reverse logarithmic: the brighter an object is, the lower its magnitude number. A difference of 1.0 in magnitude corresponds to… Read More"

"What are we building in Church, and why? This past week, in one of the Maxwell Institute’s new podcast series “Faith in Every Footnote”, an idea jumped out at me. Observing that in the humanities, students are often given the tools to be critical—to look carefully at a text or an event, and take it apart, examining elements and motivations, and finding what is wrong. The podcast episode then suggested that we all need to be reminded about WHY we are being critical. The purpose of these tools and approaches are to make things better! We’re supposed to be creating… Read More"

"What is the source of Salvation? We look, of course, to Christ and his atonement for salvation. But when we try to understand how that salvation works, where do we turn? The lesson covers the words of Isaiah, which we are told will all be fulfilled, but Isaiah is sometimes quite obscure to readers today (from the difficulty of translating both the words and the cultural context they were written in), so I don’t think its easy to use Isaiah for understanding salvation. Also, the lesson talks about prophets, their role and how they were called. Certainly, we can find… Read More"

"The Deseret Alphabet is often dismissed today as a quirky historical footnote, a strange linguistic experiment championed by Brigham Young that ultimately failed to take root in the Utah desert. However, a closer look at this 19th-century phonetic writing system reveals a complex project driven by practical literacy, social control, and profound spiritual ambition. A fascinating new interview over at the Latter-day Saint history blog, From the Desk, features scholars Ryan K. Shosted and N. E. Davis, who unpack the origins, purpose, and legacy of this unique script. Exploring newly discovered documents, the collaborative (and sometimes contentious) nature of its… Read More"

Key Topics & Focus Areas for timesandseasons.org:

Kingdoms of Glory and Astronomical Apparent Magnitude

Constructing in our Meetings (Or What Did Church Lead You to Think About Yesterday), 9/6

CFM 9/14-9/20: Thoughts and Poetry for “God Is My Salvation”

The Spiritual and Social Goals of the Deseret Alphabet

The Kids are All Right: Church Activity, the Youth, and the Best and the Brightest

Cutting Edge Latter-day Saint Research, August 2026