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Background on a D&C Section

Use this website to find the original manuscripts which became the D&C, along with some historical background on those manuscripts.

Sources Behind The Doctrine and Covenants A Joseph Smith Papers Online resource that displays the documents, source history, and background of each section of the Doctrine and Covenants.

Background on a Church Doctrine or Event

Use this Church website to learn more about a Church doctrine or event.

Gospel Topics Official discussions on a variety of topics and contemporary issues related to the Church.
Recent General Conference Talks (1971-Present) Official Church archive of General Conference talks back to 1971.
Conference Reports (1899-1970) Since 1899, the Church has published official reports of its annual (April) and semiannual (October) General Conferences, commonly called Conference Reports. These reports are distributed in booklet form only to Church leaders (bishoprics and higher), Church employees, and libraries.
Early Conference Reports (1830-1897) General conference talks presented between 1830-1897.
General Handbook A list of Church policies and procedures an various topics and issues. Use the subheading 38.6 Medical and Health Policies for topics such as cremation and the Word of Wisdom. Use 38.7 Policies on Moral Issues for topics such as birth control and suicide

Find Speeches by a Church Leader about a Doctrine

Use this database to search across General Conference sermons from 1851-Present.

LDS General Conference Corpus “This website allows you to quickly and easily search talks from General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This corpus (or collection of texts) contains 24 million words in 10,000 talks from 1851 to the present.”

Find a Biography of a Church Historical Figure

Use the search box dropdown, select Subject, then enter the name of the person you are researching; use a second box, also Subject, and enter “biography.”

BYU Library Book Search Use this to search for books in the library catalog.

REL 320: The Doctrine and Covenants: Top Resources

Philosophy and Church History/Doctrine Librarian

Background on a D&C Section

Background on a Church Doctrine or Event

Find Speeches by a Church Leader about a Doctrine

Find a Biography of a Church Historical Figure

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