Welcome to Church History Matters, Come Follow Me Edition, where we are systematically diving into every section of the doctrine and covenants throughout the year 2025.

We have a lot to talk about today, so let's get into it.

Hello, Scott. Hello, Scott.

Hello, Casey.

Here we are, once again.

And it's a new year also.

So a lot going on.

Welcome to 2025, man.

We get to dig into the Doctrine and Covenants this year, Casey. Like, we've been doing a lot of church history the last couple years, but this year, we're going to just focus in on the doctrine and covenants. How are you feeling about that?

I'm feeling pretty good, and I'm going to push back right away because we're still doing church history, right? It's just, this is the most important church history that we do. It's so important. We made it one of the four books of Canada of Scripture. And so we're still doing what we're doing with history. But now we're talking about like the big stuff. The revelations that really changed things and set us apart and put us on the path as a people.

So in the past, we've done church history

with references to the doctrine and covenants. Maybe this year we're going to flip that ratio.

Lots of doctrine and covenants contextualized in, okay, maybe a lot of history actually. It's not going to be,

it's not going to be minor. We're going to do doctrine and covenants in context. We're going to do Doctrine and Covenants in context. We're going to be doing history behind as we get into the text. We're going to be talking about all of it, actually.

History, theology, all that good stuff. And it's going to be a little different from what we've been doing. And maybe we should talk a little bit about why we're doing that.

For those out there that maybe don't know us,

don't know who we are, maybe you're new to church history matters this year. You're just joining

us to study the Doctrine of Covenants together. We want us first say, welcome. We're so glad

to have you with us. And maybe we should just talk about who we have been and why we're pivoting

now to talk about the Doctrine and Covenants this year.

Yeah. So we've been doing this podcast for two years and it was conceived on a trip to Navu, basically,

where you and I were talking about how we wanted a platform to talk about some of the tougher issues in church history.

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