[…] people to Chicago in 1893, that city would always be something more than “hog butcher to the world.” The dazzling Midway Plaisance, one of the fair’s high lights, soon disappeared. But an amazing stretch […]
[…] With no expectation of another life, this one and the living of it are more precious. I share the feelings of many Jewish friends who believe that their lives continue in what they leave […]
[…] 1950s, President David O. McKay took forthright steps to move the largely domestic church into the international world. Within months after assuming his presidency, he embarked on a series of world tours, much as […]
[…] Clark, “When are the Writings or Sermons of Church Leaders Entitled to the Claim of Scripture?” Church News, 31 July 1954, as reprinted in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 12 (Summer 1979): 68-81. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] notably showed its awareness of the need for imagery applicable to a global Church. According to the news release, Loyborg’s staff organized and trained contract illustrators and photographers in many parts of the world […]
[…] fifth educational administrators (rather than teachers/scholars), with the remainder representing medicine, dentistry, engineering, and miscellaneous fields (Deseret News 1984, 18-37). The system of governance in the Church is now based far less upon the […]
[…] the occasion to affirm the stature of the KJV. An unsigned editorial in the October 1952 Church News asserted: “For the Latter-day Saints there can be but one version of the Bible”—the King James […]
[…] know that. I have learned that that is not the case and that, in many areas, the news is not particularly welcome. Many consider indeterminacy too theoretical, political, irrelevant, or damaging to their work. […]
[…] September 11, I have been disquieted about what is now called “The War on Terrorism.” While I share America’s moral outrage over the barbaric attacks on our nation and its people, I have also […]