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September 3, 2011[…] was exactly the right wrong word. The Book of Mormon, the musical, is a very public, late- breaking initiation for the church whose ranks I’d joined a dozen years before that experience. And, like […]
[…] was exactly the right wrong word. The Book of Mormon, the musical, is a very public, late- breaking initiation for the church whose ranks I’d joined a dozen years before that experience. And, like […]
[…] new and free content, making available (and free!) most of its rich archives, staying abreast of contemporary news and events, sharing thought-provoking essays and discussions and much more. Click for more: read Editor Kristine […]
[…] is anything I wish to impart in this review, it’s the need for women and men to search out connections to their past and write them up, then archive them safely. In fact I’ll […]
[…] resistance, ten thousand paper cuts, ten thousand pleasures, and ten thousand pains. Miller gives us the depressing news that while we “may yet dream of the frictionless, of floating in zero-G,” like Phil, we […]
After looking at “The King James Bible and the Future of Missionary Work” for Dialogue last summer, Grant Hardy now looks at the recent scriptural changes for Faith Promoting Rumor at Patheos, lamenting that accuracy has been unfortunately delayed in “The 2013 Adjustments to the Book of Mormon.”
Here’s an excerpt:
“…So for the Book of Mormon, the 2013 adjustments are a holding pattern. I look forward to the day when the Church will return to trajectory set in 1981 of “bring[ing] the material into conformity with prepublication manuscripts and early editions edited by the Prophet Joseph Smith.” Perhaps in that future, more fully revised edition, we will also get indications of the original, longer chapter divisions (since the original manuscript suggests that those breaks were written on the Gold Plates, and hence were intended by Nephi, Mormon, and Moroni), and maybe even a return to paragraphs—the formatting of the Book of Mormon during Joseph Smith’s lifetime.”
[…] in General Conference. And my favorite irony: as an apostle, Joseph Fielding Smith appeared on a local news program exclaiming that it would be inappropriate for the Choir to become involved in Broadway, but […]
[…] blend of academic and devotional history. And Staker’s article is Staker-ish in its exhaustive and provocative approach. International Mormonism Frode Ulvund, “Travelling Images and Projected Representations: Perceptions of Mormonism in Norway, c. 1840-1860,” Scandinavian journal […]
[…] won an award from the Association for Mormon Letters and was a nalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award), bears the mark of a writer hitting his stride. All the usual adjectives apply: […]
[…] should turn back, that it was just a silly idea. But then, I marvel at their bravery— breaking a hole in that roof and sending their friend right down where he landed at Jesus’s […]
[…] whose members provided the bulk of the funding for its passage, nearly $40m. The issue was a breaking point for many in the church and the above roundtable attempts to offer a variety of […]