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What if the parable of the wheat and the tares is a map of the whole world — and the harvest is now? Hosts Mike and Maggie — AI voices born from the shared study of David and Leslie Ann, a husband and wife who love the word of God — walk the field for the plain and precious truths sown in every nation and honest heart, testing wheat from tares on the Lord's own threshing floor: love of God, neighbor, and the soul He gave you. Personal reflections, not official positions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. More at theword.love.
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July 13, 2026 · 13:44
The Lord said the tares are the children of the wicked one — and He told us exactly who that is: the father of lies. So what are his children? In our first episode, Mike and Maggie trace a family tree through Matthew 13 and John 8 and find that the tares are lies that look like truth, sown into a field that is the whole world. Along the way: why the seed is the word of God (and what Alma's "true seed" test reveals), …
July 14, 2026 · 15:06
"It is better that one man should perish..." — "It is expedient that one man should die for the people..." Two nearly identical sentences: one spoken in a dark street in 600 BC, the other by the man arranging the death of Christ. In episode two, Mike and Maggie walk to the front gate of the Book of Mormon, where a tare was planted on page one — and trace what that seed becomes across a thousand years. Along the way: …
July 15, 2026 · 15:16
239 chapters. 6,604 verses. Roughly 267,000 words. Fold them all in half, and three different measurements — middle chapter, middle verses, middle words — land inside one continuous story: a converted people burying their swords in the earth. And the two words at the book’s precise center? "Children of." In episode three, Mike and Maggie fold the Book of Mormon like a mirror and look at what the whole record was buil…
July 18, 2026 · 21:12
Gethsemane isn’t poetry — it’s Hebrew. Gat Shemanim: "oil press." And Isaiah names the other one: "I have trodden the winepress alone." In episode four, Mike and Maggie keep a two-episode-old promise and open the Savior’s suffering in its two phases — the garden that pressed oil, the cross that trod wine — and discover why the most misread word in scripture, birthright, was never favoritism at all. It was the double …