Jo Ann Skousen

Jo Ann Skousen is a professor of English literature at Chapman University and the author of Matriarchs of the Messiah: Valiant Women in the Lineage of Jesus Christ and has spoken numerous times at BYU Education Days. She is a member of the Peters Canyon Ward in the California Orange Stake.

Latter-day Saint Life

The word in ‘Come, Thou Fount’ your ward likely sings wrong

By Jo Ann Skousen

February 05, 2025 01:45 PM MST

Understanding this powerful Hebrew word may deepen your appreciation for the hymn.

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Latter-day Saint Life

3 remarkable women you won’t want to overlook in the Old Testament this year

By Jo Ann Skousen

February 04, 2022 03:25 PM MST

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is also the God of Sarah, Rebekah, and Leah, and the wives of the patriarchs offer powerful examples of righteous living in difficult times.

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Latter-day Saint Life

Three women ancestors of Christ who saved their people

By Jo Ann Skousen

March 17, 2016 09:00 AM MDT

As God was organizing the earth, He paused at the end of each creative period to announce, “It is good.” He had created light, water, mountains, valleys, plants, fish, birds, and animals. He had given Adam dominion over all the earth. But as God admired His most recent creation—Adam—He observed, "It is not good (Gen 2:18). Of course, he wasn’t referring to His creation of man, but to the fact that something was still missing. That “something” was Eve.

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