[…] that first article, among other matters, I explored briefly the inconsistent usage of second-person pronouns in the English translation of the Book of Mormon. In a nutshell, the text shifts back and forth randomly […]
[…] on the subject over the preceding five decades. Apostle Mark E. Petersen, as author of the Church News editorials for much of this time, also waged a highly visible “Church” campaign against birth control […]
The New English Bible was produced to enhance modern readers’ understanding of the Bible’s content. The recommendation of the multidenominational committee that initiated the translation project in October of 1946 was “that a completely […]
[…] 2 Enoch. Too often scholars have assumed that for 1 Enoch to have any influence on an English-speaking author in the modern era the entire book needed to be available to them, specifically Richard […]
[…] Mormon polygamous families. Numbers Then there is the problem of counting Mormon fundamentalists. The LDS church, the news media, and fundamentalists themselves have not always been helpful in giving accurate estimates. Part of the […]
[…] policy since President Wilfred Woodruff’s 1890 Manifesto barring polygamy. Everything else written about the Mormons in America’s newspapers in 1978 suffered by comparison. Even a cursory view of Linda Thatcher’s extensive bibliography which follows […]
[…] about what is involved. Der Stern, the Church’s official monthly publication for German-speaking members, used its “Church News” section to praise the Uniform Translation as a “text . . . which not only reads […]
[…] opinions about its “officialness.” A search through the 1970s issues of the Ensign magazine and the Church News failed to turn up any official announcement. A spokesman from the First Presidency’s office “seemed to […]
[…] 5. The tendency is toward pro-Americanism on the part of Japanese Church leaders. A column in a newspaper dealt with the problem of “the tragedy of an English-speaking nation.” It called such misestimation of […]
[…] gradually freed from the bonds of slavery and oppressive government. The Constitution, he insisted, grew out of English common law and was shaped and molded by the colonial experience. The framers, Clark argued, were […]