'Tis the season for a BOOK GIVEAWAY!!! How do you enter? Great question! 1. Make sure you're following our Instagram page AND/OR our Facebook page 2. Like this post 3. Tag a friend in the comments! (every friend you tag = one additional entry!) So get tagging! The giveaway ends next Wednesday (12/14) @ 11:59 pm MST, so make sure to check your DMs after the next day to see if you've won! Winners will be sent one of the five books featured in this post, randomly selected by us here at the RSC! Good luck!

Mark your calendar this weekend for this year's LAST Interfaith Broadcast! Register at this link to get the Zoom meeting information! https://www.widtsoefoundation.org/events-1/malachi-come-follow-me-interfaith-conversations

Happy Sunday!🍁 Here's a quote to wrap up your Come, Follow Me study for the week! You can find the rest of Gerald Lund's article, "Ezekiel: Prophet of Judgement, Prophet of Promise" under the Come, Follow Me section on our website: https://rsc.byu.edu/my-gospel-study/come-follow-me https://rsc.byu.edu/isaiah-prophets/ezekiel-prophet-judgment-prophet-promise

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Have you seen our latest publication? In discussing home-centered worship, this volume explores both individual and family worship and draws from reports from a diverse sample of more than five hundred Latter-day Saints who have shared the challenges and barriers they have faced—and successes they have experienced. Individuals and families can establish and maintain a home-centered religious life and strengthen their conversion to the gospel by using these real-life experiences, quotes, and key findings in the social sciences. Find it on our website! https://rsc.byu.edu/book/home-centered-gospel-learning-living

NEW BOOK ALERT! The ancient seer Joseph of Egypt prophesied that the Book of Mormon and the Bible would "grow together" for the good of the people in the latter days. One dimension of that intersection is the thousands of biblical illusions that interlace the Book of Mormon text, revealing points of common ground centered on language and rooted in aspects of shared origins, theology, culture, and ritual. This book offers insights, answers, and ultimately more questions for students of the Book of Mormon to ponder as they consider the meaning of Joseph of Egypt's prophecy of how the Bible and the Book of Mormon "shall grow together." Find it now on our website!

Thanks to everyone who attended this year's Sperry Symposium and stopped by our booth! If you missed it this past weekend, don't worry! All the talks are now published in one of our newest books: "The Household of God: Families and Belonging in the Social World of the New Testament." You can find more information here: https://rsc.byu.edu/book/household-god Which presentation was your favorite?🍂

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“Restorations” contains reflections from two groups of scholars who trace their beginnings to the early Saints who built the Kirtland Temple. These scholars come from the two largest branches of the Restoration movement, Community of Christ and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who have often found themselves on the opposite sides of many issues. This book is filled with honest, frank conversations between people of the two faiths but also collegiality and friendship. Centered on twelve themes, this dialogue is about bringing together informed scholars from the two churches working together, with goodwill, to accurately understand each other.

Missed this year’s Sperry Symposium? Read articles from the gospel scholars that contributed to this conference and volume! Book Synopsis: The related themes of households and families figure prominently in the New Testament. On various occasions Jesus taught about marriage, divorce, and more general familial relations. Paul likewise preached about families, extended families, figurative families, and codes of conduct for those inhabiting the same household. Peter provided direction to the church regarding relations between husbands and wives and parents and children. James counseled church membership to treat one another as “brothers” and “sisters.” Jesus, Peter, and Paul also taught about the important contributions single members and widows make in the kingdom and such household complexities as mixed-faith marriages or relationships between slaves and masters. Thus, the New Testament contains much counsel for household conduct, familial relationships, and belonging to “the household of God” (Ephesians 2:19). About the conference: The Sperry Symposium, named in honor of pioneering Latter-day Saint scripture scholar Sidney B. Sperry and held on the campus of Brigham Young University, seeks each year to examine an aspect of the religious and cultural heritage of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Since 1973, this symposium has become one of the premier venues for Latter-day Saint religious study. The symposium originated to encourage faith-based religious scholarship on various Latter-day Saint topics. Buy the book now on our website! https://rsc.byu.edu/book/household-god

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Congratulations to Don Brugger, managing editor here at the RSC! Don has been awarded the LDSPMA Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in editing and design, and will accept his award this weekend at the LDSPMA Praiseworthy Awards Gala this weekend. Congrats Don!