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Jana Riess: 3 reasons Latter-day Saints don’t know what to do with the Apostle Paul

The curriculum of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has its members around the world devoting August, September and October to studying portions of the letters of Christianity’s most indefatigable early missionary.

It’s gratifying to see so much attention paid to Paul, because the old Gospel Doctrine manual breezed through the epistles much too quickly. (One day — just one day! — on Romans?)

But just like the old manual, the new curriculum is far more focused on the “practical Christian living” aspect of the New Testament than it is on actual history or theology.