S4 E12 Community, Covenants and Church: the story behind Section 20 (Sections 20-22)

The Scriptures Are Real

Kerry Muhlestein

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Courses

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🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In this episode Kerry and Sharalyn Howcroft go over the background of how we get D&C 20. They investigate the use of the Book of Mormon in creating a first draft of the section, and then how the Lord changed what was being created and revealed to them what they needed, and the relationship between the draft Oliver Cowdery had made and the revelation Joseph received. They look at the use of Section 20 in the original Pearl of Great Price. They explore the importance of this section in our ability to have the Church function. They also look at the relationship between Section 21 and Section 20. They also talk about God's instructions to keep records in the Church and the impact that has had on us. They also look at God's description of Joseph Smith's roles, including his being a translator, and the way Joseph receives the word of God as if from His own mouth.

We are grateful for our Executive Producer, B. Fisher, and for our generous donors, and for Launchpad Consulting Studios who produce the podcast, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

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0:00.0	These revelations must be kept.
0:03.0	They must be recorded.
0:05.0	I mean, if you think of all the world religions,
0:08.0	what would people give if they could have biblical texts
0:13.0	that weren't a thousand years old or five, six hundred years old
0:17.0	from the time of one thing's occurred, but right within months of something
0:24.1	happening. What would those religions give for those founding documents?
0:42.0	Hello and welcome to the Scriptures A Real Podcast.
0:46.2	This is the podcast where we talk about things that help the scriptures become more real to us so we can draw more power out of them because we need all the help we can get.
0:49.8	I'm your host, Carrie Mulestein, and I am so happy to have with us our guest today.
1:12.5	This is Sherilyn Halcroft. Thanks for being with us, Sherilyn. Great to be here. Thank you for having me. It is my pleasure. And we're glad you would take the time to come and be with us today. Let me tell the audience a little bit about Sherilyn, and then we're hoping you'll tell us more about yourself. So Sherilyn is an archivist for the church's church history department, working with the Joseph Smith Papers and so on. I also
1:18.1	just learned has a Hebrew minor, which is, I have a Hebrew minor as well, and we both spent time
1:23.4	at the Jerusalem Center. And so some fun things in common there, but that's not how you got started in the archivist and working on things for the Joseph
1:32.4	Smith papers.
1:33.2	Tell us more about yourself, whatever you'd like to tell us.
1:37.0	Sure.
1:37.5	So I started on the Joseph Smith Papers in 2000.
1:41.2	At that time, the project was housed down at the Smith Institute for Latter-day
1:45.7	Saint History at BYU.
1:47.7	The church archives was serving as kind of a partner with the Smith Institute in providing
1:56.5	digital images of documents that are there in our collection. And also just, you know,
2:03.6	whatever resources they needed, be it access to records, the digital images, maybe there was
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