Throughout the scriptures, the Lord and His prophets teach about covenants, the ability for us to bind ourselves to God through the power of the priesthood.

Sometimes, though, we forget that we are also bound to each other in covenant relationship.

Indeed, we are not only bound to God, but when we are bound to God, we are bound to all of His creation.

We'll discuss covenants and much, much more, in this episode

of Abide, a Maxwell Institute podcast. My name is Joseph Stewart. I'm the public communication

specialist of the Neil A. Maxwell Institute for religious scholarship at Brigham Young University.

Christian Heal is a research fellow at the Maxwell Institute. And each week, we discuss the week's

block of reading from the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter-day Saints, Come Follow Me curriculum. We aren't here to present a lesson,

but rather to hit on a few key themes from the scripture block so as to help fulfill the

Maxwell Institute's mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints in their testimonies of the

restored gospel of Jesus Christ and engage the world of religious ideas. Today we are once again joined by our

colleague Dr. Jennifer Lane, Neil A. Maxwell Research Associate at the Maxwell Institute.

Jennifer is Professor Emerita of Religious Education at Brigham Young University, Hawaii,

where she also served as Dean of Religious Education and Associate Academic Vice President for

curriculum.

She has published extensively on the scriptures and is the author of the recent book,

Finding Christ in the Covenant Path, Ancient Insights for the Modern World, published in 2020

by BYU's Religious Study Center. Welcome back, Jennifer.

Thank you. It is a pleasure to be here.

The pleasure is all ours. And we are going to be

discussing Josea and Joel today, as I said at the top. And something that somewhat surprised me

in rereading this section was the relationship between Josea and his wife. How might we think about

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