[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] W. H. Allen, 1967), p. 199. Ibid., p. 5. Ibid., p. 4. Emeritus professor of Doshisha University. News column of the Seito-no-Michi, the Japanese Church magazine, Vol. 2 (January 1958): 18-19. Seven out of […]
[…] addition to the church’s PR staff was only preliminary to the opening in mid-January of an LDS News Resource Center staffed by Public Affairs specialists assisted by 350 volunteers. This facility turned out to […]
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[…] There has been no widespread return to a unitary theory of the Pentateuch in biblical studies, thus, breaking the long pattern of parallelism with the classicists. The long, parallel development between the two fields […]