"Nobody really wants to be lonely, but the lifestyles associated with todays frenzied search for "individual freedom" often lead, unsurprisingly, to loneliness."
Eld. Bruce C. Hafen, Covenant Hearts, SLC 2005.
Study Units
- Eternal Truth
- Gender and Eternal Identity
- Covenants & Ordinances
- Law of Chastity & the Sanctity of Life
- Role of Parents
- Happiness in Family Life
Selected Readings
- Rel. 200 Packet
- Eternal Marriage Institute Manual
- Religion 200 Syllabus
- How We Lost the Plot - Elder Bruce C. Hafen
- Teaching the Doctrine of the Family - Sister Julie B. Beck
Unit 1 - Eternal Truth
- Things As They Really Are - Elder Neal A. Maxwell
- King Follett Discourse(partial) - Joseph Smith
- Teaching the Doctrine of the Family - Sister Julie Beck
- The Eternal Family - Elder Robert D. Hales
- The Family - Elder Henry B. Eyring
- A Reservior of Living Water - Elder David A. Bednar
- Continually Before the Lord - Lael Woodbury - 1974 Commissioners Lecture Series
Unit 2 - Gender & Eternal Identity
- Marriage is Essential to His Eternal Plan - Elder David A. Bednar
- Same Gender Attraction - Elder Dallin H. Oaks and Elder Lance B. Wickman
- Same-Gender Attraction - Elder Dallin H. Oaks (Oct. 1995 Ensign)
- Finding Happiness - Elder Richard G. Scott
- The Women of God - Elder Neal A. Maxwell
- The Tongue of Angels - Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
- For Time and All Eternity - Boyd K. Packer
- Differences Between Men and Women - Institute Manual
Unit 3 - Covenants & Ordinances
- Celestial Marriage - Elder Bruce R. McConkie
- Covenant Marriage - Elder Bruce C. Hafen
- The Power of Covenants - Elder D. Todd Christofferson
- Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart - President James E. Faust
- One for the Money - Elder Marvin J. Ashton
- Ordinances - Elder Boyd K. Packer
- Witnesses - Elder Henry B. Eyring
- Covenants - Elder Boyd K. Packer
- Honorably Hold a Name and a Standing - Elder David A. Bednar
- Divorce - Elder Dallin H. Oaks
- Temple Blessings - Elder Richard G. Scott
- According to the Covenants - Marion G. Romney
Unit 4 - Law of Chastity & Sanctity of Life
- Of Souls, Symbols, & Sacraments - Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
- Making the Right Choices - Elder Richard G. Scott
- Fidelity in Marriage -- It's more than you think - Kenneth W. Matheson
- Birth Control - True to the Faith
- Things as They Really Are - Elder David A. Bednar
- Pornography - Elder Dallin H. Oaks
- The Fountain of Life - Elder Boyd K. Packer
- Intimacy in Marriage - Insitute Manual
Unit 5 - The Sacred Duty of Parents
- Crossing Thresholds and Becoming Equal Partners - Elder Bruce C. Hafen
- Priesthood Authority in the Church and in the Home - Elder Dallin H. Oaks
- To the Fathers in Israel - President Ezra Taft Benson
- Because She Is a Mother - Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
- Fathers and Sons: A Remarkable Relationship - Elder M. Russel Ballard
- Are We Not All Mothers - Sister Sheri Dew
- Love and Law - Elder Dallin H. Oaks
- More Dililgent and Concerned at Home - Elder David A. Bednar
- Strengthening Families: Our Sacred Duty - Eler Robert D. Hales
- Because She is a Mother - Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
- Being a Righteous Husband and Father - Pres. Howard W. Hunter
- Are We Not All Mothers - Sister Sheri Dew
- A Tribute to Women - Elder Boyd K. Packer
Unit 6 - Happiness in Family Life
- General Patterns and Specific Lives - Elder Jeffery R. Holland
- The Proclamation on the Family - Pres. Boyd K. Packer
- Applying the Simple and Plain Gospel Principles in the Family - Francisco J. Viñas
- The Challenge to Become - Elder Dallin H. Oaks
- Christian Courage: The Price of Discipleship - Elder Robert D. Hales
- Divorce - Elder Dallin H. Oaks
- Falling Out of Love ... Climbing Back In - Name Withheld
- Roundtabe Discussion - Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Elder Jeffery R. Holland, Sister Julie B. Beck, Sister Susan W. Tanner, Sister Cheryl C. Lant
- Fathers in Israel - Pres. Ezra Taft Benson
- To the Mothers in Zion - Pres. Ezra Taft Benson
- A Sanctuary from the World - Pres. Thomas S. Monson
- Christian Courage: The Price of Discipleship - Elder Robert D. Hales
- To do/To be - Elder Lynn G. Robbins
- Fathers and Sons: A Remarkable Relationships - Elder M. Russell Ballard
- Mothers and Daughters - Elder M. Russell Ballard
- Applying Gospel Principles to the Family - Elder Francisco J. Vinas
- The Challenge to Become - Elder Dallin H. Oaks
- Walk in the Light - Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley
- Hallmarks of a Happy Home - Pres. Thomas S. Monson
- Good, Better, Best - Elder Dallin H. Oaks
- The Joy of Living the Great Plan of Happiness - Elder Richard G. Scott
Supplement Readings
-
A Voice of Gladness for the Living And the Dead - Dr. Susan Easton Black
- The Latter-day Saint Doctrine of Baptism for the Dead - Richard E. Turley, Jr.
- The Law, Word, and Covenant - Elder Yoshihiko Kikuchi
Spencer W. Kimball
"Many of the social restraints which in the past have helped to reinforce and to shore up the family are dissolving and disappearing. The time will come when only those who believe deeply and actively in the family will be able to preserve their families in the midst of the gathering evil around us. ... There are those who would define the family in such a nontraditional way that they would define it out of existence." CR. Oct. 1980, Ensign, Nov. 1980, 4.