LDS General Conference and Journal of Discourses Scriptural Index (Beta)

By: Justin Butterfield - August 11, 2006

LDS General Conference Scriptural Index, a useful website that links from scriptures to the general conference talks (1942-present) that cite those scriptures, is adding some new features. One can see the beta site here.

Among the changes:

  • The addition of the Journal of Discourses to the scriptural index
  • A more efficient interface
  • A full-text index of General Conference talks and the publication of Ensign talks on the web site

The site is looking for volunteers for proofreading and editing web pages. Information is located here.

4 Comments

  1. Excellent. I have to admit that I have been surprised, for example, how the recent manuals don’t cite the Journal of Discourse. There should be some fun analysis as a result of this.

    Comment by J. Stapley — August 11, 2006 @ 4:21 pm

  2. I don’t think John Dehlin highlighted this index an hour ago at the Sunstone Symposium as part of his presentation on the Internet perils and potentials. He did a great job in his presentation though.

    When John D. was discussing a beta index at the new Church website that provides a list of topics, including polygamy, John D. pointed out, a couple of individuals sitting directly behind me stated rather loudly that of course the Church isn’t going to post anything that matters on that index. I guess that there is some skepticism about the Church’s intentions with internet resources.

    But I think this resource that Justin has pointed out here will be very useful and I look forward to using it.

    Comment by john f. — August 11, 2006 @ 6:27 pm

  3. Years ago I knew someone who did something very much like that by hand (well, on a very primative 8088 computer) and published a book.

    This database is a nice update. Thanks for the reference.

    Comment by Stephen M (Ethesis) — August 13, 2006 @ 9:00 pm

  4. This is a great resource, I didn’t know BYu ws working on something like this. I appreciate the note.

    Can you explain how the Center for eBusiness is connected to the project?

    Comment by Bart Gibby — August 14, 2006 @ 5:17 pm