Spiritual death has gradually become one of my favorite gospel topics, especially after reading some really lucid articles by Elder Gerald N. Lund. I think one of the reasons it has attracted my attention is that is it both (1) an absolutely basic doctrine at the root of the gospel, and (2) misunderstood by the majority of Latter-day Saints in a few crucial ways. I thought I understood it perfectly well (after all, I taught about it for...