This Sunday’s readings—from Deuteronomy and Mark—repeat the Shema Yisrael. That proclamation—“Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our Lord, the Lord alone!”—is what every devout Jew declares every day. The ...

It’s a new year, and with that comes the long-time tradition of making a list of resolutions and the relatively new advent of choosing a word of the year. Everyone’s resolutions and words are ...

In Mark 12:28-31, the Scribes asked Jesus, “What is the Great Commandment?” He responded, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the ...

Did you know there are over 1000 “commandments” in the New Testament? That is almost twice as many as the religious Jews identified from their Torah (first five books of the Old Testament – 613 of ...

Now I see the Golden Rule and the Great Commandment for what they really are: the one way to uplift all human behavior, including car drivers, divorce plans, family problems, the Republican-Democrat ...

Author’s Note: Interested readers can find all previous volumes of this series here. When I started writing this study, I planned to avoid mentioning the election. Besides, my last pre-election ...

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor ...

What I came to realize was that the best way to interpret and apply Scripture was through the lens of the Great Commandment. If your interpretation helped you love God with all your heart, mind, and ...

He spoke on the two great commandments and the significance of their order. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and ...

Elder D. Todd Christofferson and his wife, Katherine Jacob Christofferson, greet a crowd at Brigham Young University on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. D. Todd Christofferson, an elder in the Quorum of the ...

We asked readers, What should be the 11th commandment? What’s really needed is a new version of Golden Rule We could double the number of commandments and still need more. But what we need more than ...

The Church does not exist for itself. It exists to bear witness to the reign of God—a reign defined not by power, wealth, or politics, but by love. In a divided and polarized world, the Church has the ...