{"term": "covenant path", "display": "Covenant Path", "slug": "covenant-path", "patterns": ["covenant", "path"], "editorial_note": "Editorial note: this entry counts every place the words <em>covenant</em> and <em>path</em> appear within twenty-two words of one another, in either order &mdash; not only the modern compound \"covenant path.\" The fused phrase itself only enters the pulpit in <em>2006</em> (Elder Jeffrey R. Holland), so a literal-phrase chart would show nothing at all before then. The proximity match surfaces the longer conceptual history &mdash; two ideas that have been paired in the same thought for generations &mdash; rather than only the recent branding of them into a single label.", "total_occurrences": 1098, "peak_year": 2022, "peak_rate": 1336.15, "by_year": [{"year": 1906, "count": 3, "total_words": 139910, "rate_per_million": 21.44}, {"year": 1927, "count": 3, "total_words": 82845, "rate_per_million": 36.21}, {"year": 1943, "count": 3, "total_words": 130522, "rate_per_million": 22.98}, {"year": 1971, "count": 3, "total_words": 268403, "rate_per_million": 11.18}, {"year": 1984, "count": 3, "total_words": 196920, "rate_per_million": 15.23}, {"year": 1986, "count": 3, "total_words": 203937, "rate_per_million": 14.71}, {"year": 1993, "count": 6, "total_words": 221819, "rate_per_million": 27.05}, {"year": 1996, "count": 3, "total_words": 214343, "rate_per_million": 14.0}, {"year": 2006, "count": 9, "total_words": 213278, "rate_per_million": 42.2}, {"year": 2007, "count": 3, "total_words": 224911, "rate_per_million": 13.34}, {"year": 2009, "count": 6, "total_words": 198355, "rate_per_million": 30.25}, {"year": 2010, "count": 3, "total_words": 195401, "rate_per_million": 15.35}, {"year": 2011, "count": 3, "total_words": 188227, "rate_per_million": 15.94}, {"year": 2012, "count": 6, "total_words": 188678, "rate_per_million": 31.8}, {"year": 2013, "count": 27, "total_words": 180511, "rate_per_million": 149.58}, {"year": 2014, "count": 48, "total_words": 187357, "rate_per_million": 256.2}, {"year": 2015, "count": 15, "total_words": 187955, "rate_per_million": 79.81}, {"year": 2016, "count": 12, "total_words": 178542, "rate_per_million": 67.21}, {"year": 2017, "count": 9, "total_words": 171589, "rate_per_million": 52.45}, {"year": 2018, "count": 126, "total_words": 170243, "rate_per_million": 740.12}, {"year": 2019, "count": 159, "total_words": 169211, "rate_per_million": 939.66}, {"year": 2020, "count": 99, "total_words": 162852, "rate_per_million": 607.91}, {"year": 2021, "count": 99, "total_words": 112275, "rate_per_million": 881.76}, {"year": 2022, "count": 144, "total_words": 107772, "rate_per_million": 1336.15}, {"year": 2023, "count": 117, "total_words": 103624, "rate_per_million": 1129.08}, {"year": 2024, "count": 81, "total_words": 174571, "rate_per_million": 463.99}, {"year": 2025, "count": 72, "total_words": 108351, "rate_per_million": 664.51}, {"year": 2026, "count": 33, "total_words": 43525, "rate_per_million": 758.18}], "by_year_role": {"1906": {"": 3}, "1927": {"": 3}, "1943": {"": 3}, "1984": {"unknown": 3}, "1986": {"unknown": 3}, "1993": {"unknown": 3}, "1996": {"unknown": 3}, "2007": {"unknown": 3}, "2009": {"apostle": 6}, "2010": {"unknown": 3}, "2011": {"apostle": 3}, "2012": {"unknown": 6}, "2013": {"unknown": 27}, "2014": {"apostle": 15, "unknown": 27}, "2015": {"apostle": 9, "unknown": 3}, "2016": {"apostle": 3, "unknown": 6}, "2017": {"apostle": 3, "unknown": 6}, "2018": {"apostle": 45, "prophet": 3, "unknown": 54}, "2019": {"apostle": 60, "prophet": 9, "unknown": 57}, "2020": {"apostle": 15, "prophet": 9, "unknown": 48}, "2021": {"apostle": 66, "prophet": 6, "unknown": 27}, "2022": {"apostle": 42, "prophet": 30, "unknown": 72}, "2023": {"apostle": 39, "unknown": 78}, "2024": {"apostle": 36, "unknown": 45}, "2025": {"apostle": 36, "unknown": 36}, "2026": {"apostle": 3, "unknown": 30}}, "quotes": [{"year": 2009, "speaker": "D. Todd Christofferson", "role": "apostle", "source": "cojc", "title": "The Power of Covenants", "talk_id": "cojc:2009-04-the-power-of-covenants", "text": "Early Church leaders in this dispensation confirmed that adhering to the covenant path provides the reassurance we need in times of trial:", "matched_pattern": "covenant"}, {"year": 2014, "speaker": "Henry B. Eyring", "role": "apostle", "source": "cojc", "title": "Daughters in the Covenant", "talk_id": "cojc:2014-04-daughters-in-the-covenant", "text": "Sister Haight was at least 30 years older than the girls she taught. Yet 40 years after she taught them, each time she would meet my wife, who had been one of the girls in her class, she would put out her hand, smile, and say to Kathy, “Oh! My Mia Maid.” I saw more than her smile. I felt her deep love for a sister she still cared for as if she were her own daughter. Her smile and warm greeting came from seeing that a sister and daughter of God was still on the covenant path home.", "matched_pattern": "covenant"}, {"year": 2018, "speaker": "Gerrit W. Gong", "role": "apostle", "source": "cojc", "title": "Our Campfire of Faith", "talk_id": "cojc:2018-10-our-campfire-of-faith", "text": "I testify the fulness of His gospel and His plan of happiness are restored and taught in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in holy scripture, and by prophets from the Prophet Joseph Smith to President Russell M. Nelson today. I testify His covenant path leads to the greatest gift our loving Heavenly Father promises: “Ye shall have eternal life.”", "matched_pattern": "covenant"}, {"year": 2019, "speaker": "Quentin L. Cook", "role": "apostle", "source": "cojc", "title": "Adjustments to Strengthen Youth", "talk_id": "cojc:2019-10-25cook", "text": "The adjustments announced today may begin as soon as branches, wards, districts, and stakes are ready but should be in place by January 1, 2020. These adjustments, when combined and integrated with previous adjustments, represent a spiritual and organizational effort consistent with doctrine to bless and strengthen every man, woman, youth, and child, helping each to follow the example of our Savior, Jesus Christ, as we progress on the covenant path.", "matched_pattern": "covenant"}, {"year": 2021, "speaker": "D. Todd Christofferson", "role": "apostle", "source": "cojc", "title": "Why the Covenant Path", "talk_id": "cojc:2021-04-54christofferson", "text": "What is the covenant path? It is the one path that leads to the celestial kingdom of God. We embark upon the path at the gate of baptism and then “press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men [the two great commandments] … to the end.” In the course of the covenant path (which, by the way, extends beyond mortality), we receive all the ordinances and covenants pertaining to salvation and exaltation.", "matched_pattern": "covenant"}, {"year": 2021, "speaker": "Dallin H. Oaks", "role": "apostle", "source": "cojc", "title": "The Need for a Church", "talk_id": "cojc:2021-10-18oaks", "text": "Despite the good works that can be accomplished without a church, the fulness of doctrine and its saving and exalting ordinances are available only in the restored Church. In addition, Church attendance gives us the strength and enhancement of faith that come from associating with other believers and worshipping together with those who are also striving to stay on the covenant path and be better disciples of Christ. I pray that we will all be steadfast in these Church experiences as we seek eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.", "matched_pattern": "covenant"}], "shifts": [{"year": 2013, "z": 13.33, "rate": 149.58, "direction": "rise"}], "canonical": {"corpus_source": "canon", "corpus_version": 1, "historical_window": [1850, 1920], "modern_window": [2010, 2026], "floor_per_million": 225, "source": "fallback_regex", "early_count": 3, "modern_count": 1053, "early_total_words": 10520569, "modern_total_words": 2630684, "early_rate": 0.285, "modern_rate": 400.276, "impact": 140271.1, "direction": "rise", "qualifies_for_top_40": true}}