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Tales of the Chelm First Ward

Tales of the Chelm First Ward

Inspired by Eastern European Jewish folktales, Tales of the Chelm First Ward is a tender look into a ward composed solely of village idiots. Written by James Goldberg, Nicole Wilkes Goldberg, and Mattathias Singh, with art by David Habben.
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Protocols of the Elders of Chelm
Try as it might, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had never captured all the mysteries of the Kingdom of God into any manual. Almost two…
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James Goldberg
, 
Nicole Wilkes Goldberg
, and 
Mattathias Singh (he/him)
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The Ward Mission Plan
The Chelm ward, being full of the world’s greatest fools, was unlike other wards throughout the Church in every respect—except for the functioning of…
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James Goldberg
, 
Nicole Wilkes Goldberg
, and 
Mattathias Singh (he/him)
Clever Gretele and the Pyramid Scheme
Clever Gretele was not ordinarily one to ponder the scriptures. That was God’s own truth and she had no fear for the truth. She resembled neither Zalman…
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James Goldberg
, 
Nicole Wilkes Goldberg
, and 
Mattathias Singh (he/him)
Two-Hour Church
“There have been many questions and speculations about the change from a three-hour to a two-hour Church schedule,” Menachem Menashe said at the…
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James Goldberg
, 
Nicole Wilkes Goldberg
, and 
Mattathias Singh (he/him)
Oskar the Miser Pays Fast Offering
Bishop Levy’s heart dropped when he saw Oskar the Miser walk through the meetinghouse doors early one morning on the first Sunday of the month to pay…
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James Goldberg
, 
Nicole Wilkes Goldberg
, and 
Mattathias Singh (he/him)
Ministering Angles
Introduction to Tales of the Chelm First Ward After it was announced that the old visiting teaching and home teaching programs would be replaced with a…
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James Goldberg
, 
Nicole Wilkes Goldberg
, and 
Mattathias Singh (he/him)
How the Church Came to Chelm
Introduction to Tales of the Chelm First Ward It was not so very long ago that the Church first came to Chelm—or rather, as Heshel tells the story, that…
 • 
James Goldberg
, 
Nicole Wilkes Goldberg
, and 
Mattathias Singh (he/him)
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