[…] 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 […]
[…] second is “the earth” (ha’arets, also with the definite article). Preliminary Observations Joseph begins his analysis by breaking down bere’sit into three parts, as described in the Clayton report: “Be—in by through and everything […]
[…] ambitions of building the kingdom of God on earth. Based on information extracted from the 1995-96 Deseret News Church Almanac, we have tabulated the worldwide organization of LDS stakes by decade over the past […]
[…] the general public thought constituted a Mormon picture at the time. But by 1928 the Cleveland Ohio News christened the film All Faces West, produced primarily by non-Mormons under official guidance from Church leaders, “the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Church finally responded with a conciliatory statement and an unprecedented series of articles in the Church-owned Deseret News on LGBT issues, including references to resources it had previously not endorsed.[23] In October 2016, 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 […]
[…] and concern. The scrutiny on all these subjects is likely to continue unabated, probably often as late- breaking news, as the dust begins to settle from the internal social and religious turmoil and from […]
[…] their God-given work as wife, mother, grandmother, home maker, and charitable neighbor.”[30] Its pages were filled with news from Re lief Society sisters in “From Near and Far,” as well as messages, poetry, recipes, […]
[…] week later, the new President of the Church, Joseph Fielding Smith, assured the world at a formal news conference that his views on church policy and doctrine had “never been altered,” and that no […]