[…] of prophecy, whether according to the will of God or not.” Twenty years later the Church’s Deseret News was not only questioning the old notions of racial inferiority, but had become somewhat of a […]
[…] began to ask, “Why no exploitation of Iron County’s iron potential?” The 12 January 1881 Deseret Evening News attempted to answer that question. The report covered problems which had hampered development since the 1850s: […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the proposed Equal Rights Amendment stimulated articles throughout the year in such prestigious publications as the Buffalo News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Los Angeles Times, Milwaukee Journal, New York Times and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] infusion into local economies of the funds spent by the church and by its missionaries. The “good news” is that the money spent by missionaries in the communities where they serve amounts to probably […]
[…] I separated stories on American Mormonism from those on the local LDS Church. Polygamy, not surprisingly, dominated news reports about American Mormonism. Stories about Warren Jeffs, Tom Green, and the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart […]