As someone who studies and teaches church history and doctrine as both a

believer and a professor, I like to use a website called the LDS General

Conference Corpus to more powerfully research what prophets have taught

over time in general conference. One of my favorite features on their website is

their chart feature that allows you to see and normalize by decade how certain

teachings have been emphasized or de-emphasized over time in the church. For

example, type in the phrase Word of Wisdom and you can see how teachings on the

Word of Wisdom really ramped up during the early 1900s through the prohibition

lace 20s and 30s as the Word of Wisdom began to be codified as a binding

commandment for Latter-day Saints or see how references to pornography were

basically non-existent all the way through the 1960s but began to be

emphasized a little bit in the 70s and exploded with the advent of the

internet in the early 2000s. You can do this for many topics related to the church

but one of them that is particularly fascinating to me is to simply type in the

word grace. Do you think that our church leaders are talking more or less about

the doctrine of grace now than they did in the past? Well based on the findings

from the General Conference Corpus the results are fascinating. In all the word

grace has been said in General Conference 1,886 times. Normalizing the

references between the 1850s through the 1970s grace was mentioned on average

only about 60 words per million but suddenly in the 1990s it jumped up to

123 words per million doubling references from some previous decades and by

the time we hit the 2010s grace was being mentioned every 220 words per million

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