“What could I have done more for my vineyard?” In one of the Book of Mormon s most magisterial passages, the lord of a vineyard looks over his beloved olive trees with great sorrow and strives to redeem them. This allegory represents Jesus Christ s labor to save not only individual souls but an entire world. Perhaps more than any other Book of Mormon prophet, Jacob manifests the same divine anxiety, having been born in a wild wilderness and inheriting the task of uniting a divided people. In this brief theological introduction, Deidre Nicole Green presents Jacob as a vulnerable and empathic religious leader deeply concerned about social justice. As a teacher consecrated by his brother Nephi, Jacob insists on continuity between religious and social life. His personal experiences of suffering, his compassion for those in society s margins, and his concern for equality are inseparable from his testimony of Jesus Christ. Because of Christ, Jacob lovingly and mournfully seeks to nurture a faithful and just community, even against all odds of success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":54532,"template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_eb_attr":"","inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[55],"product_cat":[107],"product_tag":[1084],"class_list":{"0":"post-54526","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_brand-brigham-distributing","7":"product_cat-book-of-mormon","8":"product_tag-202204inventoryconfirmed","9":"product_shipping_class-free-shipping","10":"pa_writer-green-deidre-nicole","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n