Follow a teaching through the pulpit, 1830 to now.
Each pane below is one sermon: 12,201 of them, every General Conference talk on record and the tabernacle sermons that survive beside them. Choose a teaching and the sermons that speak to it light up, amber where the speaker holds it, blue where the speaker sets it aside or rejects it, grey where it is only mentioned. Open one to read the passage.
Adam-God
Being read now
- King Follett
- The Word of Wisdom
What it shows, and what it leaves alone
Refrain records what was said from the pulpit, by whom, and how often. Whether a teaching is true, or binds Latter-day Saints today, is a question the record alone cannot settle. For that question, start with Covenantal Non-Dogmatism and the reading list.
How the labels were made
Language models read the sermons, in order, to find every paragraph that might speak to a claim. Two models from different makers then labelled those paragraphs against a published rubric, and a third reading settled the cases where they landed on opposite sides. A label has been checked by a person only where it says so. The method page gives the rubric, exactly what has been read so far, and how far the models agreed.
The speakers' own words
Nothing here is summarised or paraphrased. Every passage is quoted from Pulpit, a critical edition of the conference record that grades each text by how close it stands to what was said, and every passage links to its paragraph there.