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During the past five years I have read the Book of Mormon more than a hundred times both while working on The Easy-to-Read Book of Mormon and later.[1] In retrospect, I am astonished that […]
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[…] site reflected that openness. However, visitors of the Newseum in Arlington, Virginia—the first “interac tive museum of news”—negotiated through a relatively closed text. By drawing on the collective memory of major news events, and […]