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[biggreenstache7]

god giveth and god taketh away

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[ianthedebonair]

never a great time to be alone with your thoughts

[funnymicrobe]

woe…. jr. science club x ld crossover be upon ye

[gettingsoaked]

Mormonism 101

One of the reasons for this project is that Mormonism, through its global missionary program, shows like South Park and the Book of Mormon musical, and the music of Donny Osmond, is a very visible religion, yet at the same time its basic tenets, beliefs, and practices are almost totally unknown to anyone except initiates. Most people are aware of Mormons, but couldn't tell you much about the religion. So what is Mormonism? Let's start with terminology. While "Mormon" and "Mormonism" are well-established, people who are usually called Mormons are actually members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "Mormon" is a nickname or exonym drawn from the religion's principle scripture, the Book of Mormon. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the official name of what to most people is "the Mormon Church." The term "Mormon" is discouraged, as is the abbreviation LDS. Official Church sources stress that the full name should be used whenever possible, but suggest using the abbreviations, “Church of Jesus Christ” or “Christ’s Church,” which seem more to me like ambiguous theopolitical statements than useful short forms. Apologies to any LDS readers, but I'll be using "Mormon," "Latter-day Saint," and "LDS" more or less interchangeably.

Mormonism is a Christian restorationist denomination, which means that Mormons believe their religion is a restoration of primitive (in the sense of first or original) Christianity. Mormonism is a Christian religion to the extent that its central figure is Jesus Christ, but has several major differences from mainstream Christianity, which we'll get to in later posts. (I personally believe that Mormonism originates in Christianity, but is not Christian in the same way that Christianity originated from Judaism but isn't Jewish.) The Church was founded by Joseph Smith, Jr, who hailed from upstate New York and is regarded by believers as a prophet similar to the way Jews & Christians view Moses or Muslims view Muhammad. Smith had visions from the spirit world telling him to organize his own church, as all Christian creeds were an abomination in the eyes of God, and leading him to a new volume of scripture, the Book of Mormon, written by some of the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas on golden plates, and buried on the Hill Cumorah. Smith allegedly translated this record, the Book of Mormon, through the gift and power of God. The Bible, the Book of Mormon, a collection of Smith and other Latter-day prophets' revelations called the Doctrine and Covenants, and The Pearl of Great Price, consisting of some excerpts from Smith's revision of the Bible and other ephemera, constitute the open Latter-day Saint scriptural canon. After Smith's assassination, his successor Brigham Young led the Mormons to Utah, and eventually the religion grew to become a global faith. The Church is headed by a president that adherents consider a modern prophet, seer, and revelator, and they consider themselves the only true, authorized church on earth today. They have many distinctive teachings on the nature of God, the afterlife, health and diet, finances, and other matters that I plan to cover in future posts. (Any corrections are always welcome, but I think this is pretty accurate!)

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[nerdygaymormon]

How is it you're able to post things that are contrary to what the church teaches? Aren't you afraid you're wrong? Why do you know better than prophets and apostles?

Growing up I'd been taught the church was right and true and led by Christ, so of course I should trust the morality taught by the church and its leaders. As you put it, why would I think I know any better than the prophets and apostles?

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In 1990, I went to the temple and did the initiatory and endowment ceremonies for the first time. I did not like it! In fact, I was a bit freaked out about it.

Fortunately changes made in 1990, 2005, 2008, 2019 and 2023 have gotten rid of or changed many of the parts that troubled me and made made things better. There's still things that need to improve and I hope that will happen sooner than later.

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In 2015, the LDS Church created a policy that required same-gender couples to go through a disciplinary council, and their children were forbidden from joining the church. President Nelson even declared this to be a revelation from God.

This 2015 policy felt so overwhelmingly wrong to me that I very nearly left the church over it. I was surprised at how many of my church friends said they had no problem with it.

Then in 2019, the policy was rescinded, gay couples are no longer classified as "apostates" and are not required to have a disciplinary council, and their children can become members of the LDS Church.

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The temple and the policy of exclusion both are examples of my moral compass being bothered.

The changes to the temple ceremonies and the rescinding of the 2015 policy helped me see that I don't farm out my morality and choices to the church. If something bothers my moral compass then I need to pay attention to that.

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Sharing with others why some things in the temple or the 2015 policy were unsettling to me often got the response that I need to pray and work hard to gain an understanding so that I can accept it, that I need to learn to let go of my limited perception in order to bend to God's will and teachings.

Except they were wrong! Many of those things changed.

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I don't speak for the LDS Church, I have no institutional authority within the church. I only speak for myself, and that's what I do on this blog. I don't have the power to fix or change the church, but I can be true to my sense of right and wrong.

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If there's something we're unsure of, I wish as a church community that we would err on the side of love instead of on the side of boundaries to exclude. Our own church history is one of the boundaries expanding to include folks who once were forbidden. How much better if we'd started off more expansive?

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There's too many examples in history of people "following orders," or "doing as they were told" as they acted out violence and injustice against others. By giving their moral authority to others and to institutions, these individuals did things which later they looked back on with regret. Are they accountable for their actions?

Am I accountable for my actions? I believe I am and thus have to live in a way that works for me and my conscience. If something bothers me, I can give voice to that on my blog.

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Some of the boldest things taught in the LDS Church are these:

Do what is right, let the consequence follow - As Martin Luther King, Jr. put it "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." It may take time for changes to happen, but how much better if we're on the side of love, fairness & justice now and the world has to catch up to us?

All truth may be circumscribed into one great whole - truth doesn't conflict with truth. As science advances and we gain more knowledge, if it conflicts with what's being taught at church, there's a conflict that needs to be addressed and something needs to be adjusted

To God, all people are equal - God teaches this many times, but do we really believe this? Would it change how we treat others or the limits we put on how people can participate?

[beardedmrbean]

A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints investment arm misused hundreds of thousands of dollars donated by three men by investing the money instead of using it for charitable purposes as they claim was promised.

The legal action brings more scrutiny about how the faith, known widely as the Mormon church, handles its vast financial holdings bolstered by so-called “tithing” from by members who contribute 10% of their income. The church doesn't publicly disclose details about its finances.

This new lawsuit against the business and investment entities under the church in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City is similar to one filed in federal court in California by James Huntsman, brother of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr., that recently scored a partial success on appeal and remains pending. That lawsuit seeks the return of $5 million he donated before he left the church.

In February, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fined the church and Ensign Peak $5 million for using shell companies to obscure the size of the investment portfolio under church control. The church agreed to pay $1 million and Ensign Peak will pay $4 million.

Church officials didn’t immediately respond for comment on the lawsuit.

The church has previously defended how it handles member contributions, calling Huntsman’s claims baseless while claiming contributions go to a variety of religious purposes including missionary work, education, humanitarian causes and construction of churches, temples and other buildings important to church work.

At issue in both lawsuits is whether the church's investments in stocks, bonds, real estate and agriculture reflect the wishes of its donors.

The church's corporate arm, the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, solicits donations for humanitarian relief with promises that all donations are used to help those in need. But those promises are untrue, the latest lawsuit argues.

Instead, the church allegedly hid the fact that some if not all donations are permanently invested in accounts never used for charitable work. That includes tithes; regular donations amounting to 10% of a person’s income expected from members of the church. The money instead has gone to Ensign Peak Advisors, a nonprofit created in 1997 that has grown to over $100 billion in value, the lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuit is filed by Daniel Chappell, of Virginia, and Masen Christensen and John Oaks, both of Utah. They claim the three of them combined have donated about $350,000 to the church over the past decade. Their lawsuit seeks class-action certification, potentially involving millions of church members, and an independent entity to oversee collection and use of church donations.

Like the lawsuit filed by Huntsman, the lawsuit filed by the three men leans on allegations by whistleblower David Nielsen, a former Ensign Peak investment manager who this year submitted a 90-page memorandum to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee demanding oversight into the church’s finances.

Ensign Peak has spent funds only twice in its 26-year history, according to both lawsuits. In 2009, Ensign Peak spent $600 million to bail out a failing church-owned, for-profit life insurance company. From 2010-2014 it put $1.4 billion to build a mall near Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City.

A judge ruled in favor of the church in Huntsman's case but in August the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed in part and sent the case back to district court for further proceedings. The church has filed for a rehearing in the appeals court, saying the church president had explained the project would be paid for through investment earnings and not tithing funds.

[cyeayt]

despite his criminal mind, this man is behaving well. his reward is the canoe. this time, he can sit in the canoe for up to an hour.

despite his criminal mind, this man is behaving well. his reward is the canoe. this time, he can sit in the canoe for up to an hour.

despite his criminal mind, this man is behaving well. his reward is the canoe. this time, he can sit in the canoe for up to an hour.

Psa I finished Hannibal and am going to be insufferable about it for a while.

Haiiii :3

I’m Cyeayt or klyde, it/its, eel/eek, xi/xir (pronounced with the zshj sound kinda), zi/xir, and other neos that i dont care to list and arent important, I rb anything and everything i see its crowded in here,

Pfp from this post by @bailey-dreamfoot

Sometimes I tag my ocs as stuff

im a tripple AAA threat, autistic asexual aromantic, but i am also a freak and a stupid little weirdo so yeahhhh,

fandoms: The Magnus Archives, The Silt Verses, Malevolent, Reanimator, Cocaine Bear, Velocipastor, Always Sunny, various others but those are the ones i talk about

blorbos: TIM STOKER, faulkner, hayward, reagan riddley, jr sheimpough, cokey the bear, daveed, father stevens, whole cast of nope, iasip gang

i contain multitudes! i have a terrible memory! here are some things that will come up and you should know!: Exmormon, has disdain for mormonism, dont call it the lds church you can ask me why not but just dont. I cant spell! i am a nerd, i can pull interests out of nowhere, i ice skate and sail sometimes,

art! my art! here! click it!

oh also im the mayor of timstokerville

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[agox]

Last night I got high and wrote a program to find all of the unused elemental symbols. It turns out there’s 585 of them and it’s much less interesting the next day.

One interesting finding: I couldn’t be bothered to generate all possible one and two letter strings, so I asked ChatGPT to write me code that would do all that for me. It worked surprisingly well!

['a', 'd', 'e', 'g', 'h', 'j', 'l', 'm', 'q', 'r', 't', 'x', 'z', 'aa', 'ab', 'ad', 'ae', 'af', 'ah', 'ai', 'aj', 'ak', 'an', 'ao', 'ap', 'aq', 'av', 'aw', 'ax', 'ay', 'az', 'bb', 'bc', 'bd', 'bf', 'bg', 'bj', 'bl', 'bm', 'bn', 'bo', 'bp', 'bq', 'bs', 'bt', 'bu', 'bv', 'bw', 'bx', 'by', 'bz', 'cb', 'cc', 'cg', 'ch', 'ci', 'cj', 'ck', 'cp', 'cq', 'ct', 'cv', 'cw', 'cx', 'cy', 'cz', 'da', 'dc', 'dd', 'de', 'df', 'dg', 'dh', 'di', 'dj', 'dk', 'dl', 'dm', 'dn', 'do', 'dp', 'dq', 'dr', 'dt', 'du', 'dv', 'dw', 'dx', 'dz', 'ea', 'eb', 'ec', 'ed', 'ee', 'ef', 'eg', 'eh', 'ei', 'ej', 'ek', 'el', 'em', 'en', 'eo', 'ep', 'eq', 'et', 'ev', 'ew', 'ex', 'ey', 'ez', 'fa', 'fb', 'fc', 'fd', 'ff', 'fg', 'fh', 'fi', 'fj', 'fk', 'fn', 'fo', 'fp', 'fq', 'fs', 'ft', 'fu', 'fv', 'fw', 'fx', 'fy', 'fz', 'gb', 'gc', 'gf', 'gg', 'gh', 'gi', 'gj', 'gk', 'gl', 'gm', 'gn', 'go', 'gp', 'gq', 'gr', 'gs', 'gt', 'gu', 'gv', 'gw', 'gx', 'gy', 'gz', 'ha', 'hb', 'hc', 'hd', 'hh', 'hi', 'hj', 'hk', 'hl', 'hm', 'hn', 'hp', 'hq', 'hr', 'ht', 'hu', 'hv', 'hw', 'hx', 'hy', 'hz', 'ia', 'ib', 'ic', 'id', 'ie', 'if', 'ig', 'ih', 'ii', 'ij', 'ik', 'il', 'im', 'io', 'ip', 'iq', 'is', 'it', 'iu', 'iv', 'iw', 'ix', 'iy', 'iz', 'ja', 'jb', 'jc', 'jd', 'je', 'jf', 'jg', 'jh', 'ji', 'jj', 'jk', 'jl', 'jm', 'jn', 'jo', 'jp', 'jq', 'jr', 'js', 'jt', 'ju', 'jv', 'jw', 'jx', 'jy', 'jz', 'ka', 'kb', 'kc', 'kd', 'ke', 'kf', 'kg', 'kh', 'ki', 'kj', 'kk', 'kl', 'km', 'kn', 'ko', 'kp', 'kq', 'ks', 'kt', 'ku', 'kv', 'kw', 'kx', 'ky', 'kz', 'lb', 'lc', 'ld', 'le', 'lf', 'lg', 'lh', 'lj', 'lk', 'll', 'lm', 'ln', 'lo', 'lp', 'lq', 'ls', 'lt', 'lw', 'lx', 'ly', 'lz', 'ma', 'mb', 'me', 'mf', 'mh', 'mi', 'mj', 'mk', 'ml', 'mm', 'mp', 'mq', 'mr', 'ms', 'mu', 'mv', 'mw', 'mx', 'my', 'mz', 'nc', 'nf', 'ng', 'nj', 'nk', 'nl', 'nm', 'nn', 'nq', 'nr', 'ns', 'nt', 'nu', 'nv', 'nw', 'nx', 'ny', 'nz', 'oa', 'ob', 'oc', 'od', 'oe', 'of', 'oh', 'oi', 'oj', 'ok', 'ol', 'om', 'on', 'oo', 'op', 'oq', 'or', 'ot', 'ou', 'ov', 'ow', 'ox', 'oy', 'oz', 'pc', 'pe', 'pf', 'pg', 'ph', 'pi', 'pj', 'pk', 'pl', 'pn', 'pp', 'pq', 'ps', 'pv', 'pw', 'px', 'py', 'pz', 'qa', 'qb', 'qc', 'qd', 'qe', 'qf', 'qg', 'qh', 'qi', 'qj', 'qk', 'ql', 'qm', 'qn', 'qo', 'qp', 'qq', 'qr', 'qs', 'qt', 'qu', 'qv', 'qw', 'qx', 'qy', 'qz', 'rc', 'rd', 'ri', 'rj', 'rk', 'rl', 'rm', 'ro', 'rp', 'rq', 'rr', 'rs', 'rt', 'rv', 'rw', 'rx', 'ry', 'rz', 'sa', 'sd', 'sf', 'sh', 'sj', 'sk', 'sl', 'so', 'sp', 'sq', 'ss', 'st', 'su', 'sv', 'sw', 'sx', 'sy', 'sz', 'td', 'tf', 'tg', 'tj', 'tk', 'tn', 'to', 'tp', 'tq', 'tr', 'tt', 'tu', 'tv', 'tw', 'tx', 'ty', 'tz', 'ua', 'ub', 'uc', 'ud', 'ue', 'uf', 'ug', 'uh', 'ui', 'uj', 'uk', 'ul', 'um', 'un', 'uo', 'up', 'uq', 'ur', 'us', 'ut', 'uu', 'uv', 'uw', 'ux', 'uy', 'uz', 'va', 'vb', 'vc', 'vd', 've', 'vf', 'vg', 'vh', 'vi', 'vj', 'vk', 'vl', 'vm', 'vn', 'vo', 'vp', 'vq', 'vr', 'vs', 'vt', 'vu', 'vv', 'vw', 'vx', 'vy', 'vz', 'wa', 'wb', 'wc', 'wd', 'we', 'wf', 'wg', 'wh', 'wi', 'wj', 'wk', 'wl', 'wm', 'wn', 'wo', 'wp', 'wq', 'wr', 'ws', 'wt', 'wu', 'wv', 'ww', 'wx', 'wy', 'wz', 'xa', 'xb', 'xc', 'xd', 'xf', 'xg', 'xh', 'xi', 'xj', 'xk', 'xl', 'xm', 'xn', 'xo', 'xp', 'xq', 'xr', 'xs', 'xt', 'xu', 'xv', 'xw', 'xx', 'xy', 'xz', 'ya', 'yc', 'yd', 'ye', 'yf', 'yg', 'yh', 'yi', 'yj', 'yk', 'yl', 'ym', 'yn', 'yo', 'yp', 'yq', 'yr', 'ys', 'yt', 'yu', 'yv', 'yw', 'yx', 'yy', 'yz', 'za', 'zb', 'zc', 'zd', 'ze', 'zf', 'zg', 'zh', 'zi', 'zj', 'zk', 'zl', 'zm', 'zo', 'zp', 'zq', 'zs', 'zt', 'zu', 'zv', 'zw', 'zx', 'zy', 'zz']

[alliluyevas]

the ida smith who gave this christopher nemelka guy her burial plot in the hyrum smith family graveyard was also the daughter of joseph f. smith ii not to confused with joseph f. smith (his grandfather) or joseph f. smith jr. (his uncle). joseph f. smith ii was forced to resign from his role as an lds patriarch in 1946 due to having extramarital affairs with several men. definitely an interesting branch of the family evidently.

[jackthegiantinc]

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[takeonmetakemeon]

The whole dustup over Vance's school shootings comment is revealing.

First of all, it's clear that Republican complaints about biased coverage do have an effect. The AP not only deleted their tweet about Vance saying the shootings are a fact of life, but replaced it by saying he "laments" that they are a fact of life.

Newsweek's headline goes even farther to say he "decries" that they are a fact of life.

What he said was "I don't like that this is a fact of life."

Ok. I don't like broccoli or tailgaters but I'm not lamenting their existence, much less decrying it. The AP and Newsweek both responded to his anger by putting words in his mouth that made him look less callous.

Second, Vance's insistence that the AP had lost all credibility because it had misquoted *him* demonstrated an impressive amount of self-centeredness.

It reminded me of the self-appointed Mormon prophet, Denver Snuffer (his actual name). He was just some average Joe in the LDS Church who decided that God was speaking to the world through him. Instead of through the church's leaders like almost every other Mormon believes.

Brother Snuffer also believed the church had gone astray immediately after the death of Joseph Smith Jr and that none of the church's leaders since that time had done God's will. But he charitably accepted the church's authority in spite of the leaders' sins. In his view, nothing they had ever done (including polygamy, which he strongly opposed) had been enough for them to lose the authority of the Priesthood.

Until they excommunicated him. And suddenly God withdrew his authority from the LDS Church. So Snuffer founded his own.

In a similar way, JD Vance has until now been able to overlook every error in the AP's news coverage. Of course, such errors inevitably exist due to the fact that reporters are clearly human beings, which is not something we can say about JD Vance with the same certainty (talking about soft targets).

But as soon as he perceived there to be an error about *him* the news agency lost all credibility. There is perhaps nothing more revealing about this dust-up than that.

Finally, there is the very different ways his words are understood by his allies and critics.

His Republican allies are upset that his words were taken out of context and insist his entire statement is inoffensive. That is interesting in and of itself, because reading the entire statement doesn't seem to change the mind of his critics.

It seems that people who are disposed to view Vance favorably read his words and see one thing, while people who disposed to view him unfavorably see something else.

Imagining his intent is a big part of this. If you assume he could only have good intentions, you'll read his words one way. If you assume he could only have evil intentions, you'll understand them completely differently.

So for a moment, I would like to imagine he has a mild communication disorder and can't always phrase his words in a way that communicates his intent. I'm not going to discuss what he thinks and feels, only what he said.

“I don’t like this. I don’t like to admit this. I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you’re, if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets, and we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security, so that if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able to. And again, as a parent, do I want my kids’ school to have additional security? No, of course, I don’t. I don’t want my kids to go to school in a place where they feel like you’ve got to have additional security. But that is increasingly the reality that we live in.”

The facts of life he's referring to is that there are people who want to get their name in the headlines by becoming a mass murderer, and that schools are a "soft target."

The condemnation has been about him talking about school shootings as a fact of life. But what he said was that mass shootings are a fact of life and schools are an obvious target.

Is either of those true? If mass shootings were a fact of life, they would exist everywhere. Instead they are almost exclusively an American phenomenon. And are schools soft targets compared to WalMarts? Or Home Depots? Or malls? Or movie theaters? Absolutely not.

Aging is a fact of life. Illness is a fact of life. We have to accept them.

But are taxes a fact of life? Is abortion a fact of life? Is cancel culture a fact of life? Is anything conservatives fight a fact of life?

It sounds different when it's something you want to stop, doesn't it?

His defenders point out that he wasn't saying children are going to die and we have to accept that, but his entire statement still sounds callous to critics.

He is still saying that *someone* is going to die, and there is nothing at all we can do about that. And he is still saying the only way to stop school shootings is better security.

His defenders may find those ideas to be reasonable and true. His critics do not.

Gun control advocates point out over and over that this does not happen in other countries. Certainly not with anything like the same frequency. Something is different here. It may not be liberal gun laws, but it is something. And it must be something we can change. Nothing is inevitable about the existence of psychos who want to get their name in the headlines and see killing children in schools as an easy way to do that.

You can argue that he didn't mean for his words to sound like they did. That's a real possibility, given his social awkwardness and difficulty in communicating emotions. But his words were still what they were.

He is free to rephrase them.

[mormonophile]

Different editions of The BoM...how different are they?

So if I'm counting correctly, I have about 56 different copies of The Book of Mormon in my personal library. This includes a few foreign language editions (in Russian and Spanish). Most of them are just different formatting of the commonly available editions published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some are individual copies of The Book of Mormon, while others are part of "triple combo" or "quad combo' editions. If you're a non-Mormon, those terms may not mean a lot to you. They're nicknames for publications that combine the BoM with other LDS/Mormon scriptures, such as The Doctrine & Covenants, The Pearl of Great Price, and the King James Bible. Other editions of the 1920, 1981, or 2013 versions of the LDS text are annotated editions edited by various people. That accounts for most of my collection

However...some of the versions in my library are quite different from the usual LDS editions. I thought I'd take some time to address some of the more interesting non-LDS versions of the BoM in my collection. So here we go...forgive me if I come off as a total geek.

Facsimile Editions

Since the BoM, having been originally published in 1830, has long been in the public domain, several publishers have created facsimile editions that try to re-create the BoM in a similar format to how it first appeared. I have three different facsimile editions from different publishers, and I find them quite enjoyable to read sometimes. Joseph Smith originally published the BoM without chapter and verse numbering, in a single column format. So even though the titles of the various books (1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, etc.) are pretty much the same as modern editions, the text in each book is divided into paragraphs that read more like a novel than a Bible. Each of the facsimiles is a bit different the others: one has blue speckling on the sides of the pages, the thickness of each is a bit different, and the quality of the typeface is a bit different in each. (Also, two of the editions retain certain printing errors, such as the misspelling of the word "seen" in the Testimony of the Three Witnesses.)

Royal Skousen's The Earliest Text

There is probably no greater expert in the printing history of the BoM than LDS scholar Royal Skousen. In 2009 he published The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text, which was an attempt to reconstruct the text of the BoM in its earliest form, before it was actually published. This task was much harder than it may seem at first. The BoM as originally published was based on a handwritten manuscript (in English) with no punctuation or capitalization, only about 28% of which still survives. After the book was first published in 1830, Smith made hundreds of corrections to the original publication, and the Church has made numerous corrections and changes since then. Much more detail is given in the Introduction to the book, written by LDS scholar Grant Hardy. You can read the entire first edition for free online at Book of Mormon Central. Skousen released an updated Second Edition in 2022, with a brand new Introduction by himself, that is well worth reading for its insights into his process.

The Restored Covenant Edition

Several years ago, I stumbled over a leather-bound copy of the BoM at my local used bookstore, entitled The Book of Mormon: Restored Covenant Edition. It was clearly not published by the LDS Church, but it was beautifully laid out The Title Page included this interesting claim:

With text restored to its purity from the Original and Printer's Manuscripts as translated by the gift and power of God through Joseph Smith, Jr. from the original plates preserved by the hand of God to come forth for this time.

I found that intriguing, and added the edition to my collection. I later found out that the edition was published by the Zarahemla Research Foundation, and mostly edited by an RLDS scholar named Shirley Heater. For formatting of the text, this edition may be the most enjoyable one to read. A second edition of this version was recently published, only in softcover.

The Stick of Joseph in the Hands of Ephraim

Perhaps the most unusual version of the BoM in my collection is this publication, entitled The Stick of Joseph in the Hands of Ephraim. Of course, the different title catches the eye immediately, but it gets even more interesting from there. Much like some "Hebrew names" editions of the Bible, that use Hebrew names in the Old and New Testaments (Moshe, Chava, Yeshua, etc.), this edition replaces Nephi with Nefi, Moroni with M'roni, Jacob with Ya'akov, and so forth. No longer is the "translator" called Joseph Smith, Jr., but the much more Hebrew sounding "Yosef Ben Yosef." "The Lord" is replaced by "YHWH," to indicate where the Tetragrammaton (The Name of God) would likely have been found if the text were originally written in Hebrew (which, to my knowledge, no Mormon scholars had ever claimed).

It is an unusual publication, to be sure. However, if you really want to view the BoM as a literary creation of ancient Hebrews, rather than the creation of a 19th century American farmer, the way the text is handled in this edition is pretty evocative. As a non-Mormon, of course, I don't have any strong position on the origins of the book, so I'l let the reader decide whether this approach is valid or not.

So those are some of the more interesting non-LDS versions of The Book of Mormon in my collection. I will address some other versions as the blog continues. It may go without saying that, for most people, it's probably considerably easier just to get a free paperback BoM from LDS missionaries than it is to get a hold of one of the versions described above. But if you become interested in digging deeper into the text, as I have, you might find one of these publications to be useful or interesting. Thanks for checking into the Mormonophile blog!

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[lboogie1906]

Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944) is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and humanitarian. She was born in Atlanta to Sarah and Merald Knight Sr. She gained fame after winning a performance contest on the televised “Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour.” She, her brother Merald Jr., her sister Brenda, and their cousins Eleanor and William Guest formed a musical act called The Pips. Brenda and Eleanor left the group to get married and were replaced by Edward Patten and Langston George. The Pips had begun to perform and tour regularly.

They produced several major hits including, “I Heard It through the Grapevine,” “If I Were Your Woman,” and “Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye).” She was responsible for sending the Jackson 5’s first demo tape to Motown Records.

They enjoyed major success with several top-charting hits including “Midnight Train to Georgia,” “On and On,” “I’ve Got to Use My Imagination,” and “Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me.” She collaborated with Dionne Warwick, Elton John, and Stevie Wonder for the iconic AIDS benefit anthem “That’s What Friends Are For.”

She continued to tour and record successful R&B and gospel music. They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She has been honored with Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, NAACP Image Awards, and Soul Train Awards.

She appeared in several television series and films. She starred in Charlie and Co. She appeared on Dancing with the Stars.

She married musician James Newman Sr. (1960-73). The couple had two children. She married music producer Barry Hankerson (1974-81). They had one son. She married author and motivational speaker Les Brown (1995-97). She created and directed the Grammy Award-winning LDS Mormon choir known as Saints Unified Voices. She married corporate consultant William McDowell (2001).

She has invested in several businesses including a successful chain of chicken and waffle restaurants. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence ##alphakappaalpha