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Well – wouldn’t you know it, while looking to see if President Monson actually asked church members to cut back on church activities and spend time with family, I found this little nugget on LDS.org. https://www.lds.org/church/news/church-historian-announces-new-4-volume-history-of-the-church?lang=eng&_r=1&cid=HP_TH_6-7-2017_dCN_fCNWS_xLIDyC-2_ ” class=”bbcode_url”> https://www.lds.org/church/news/church-historian-announces-new-4-volume-history-of-the-church?lang=eng&_r=1&cid=HP_TH_6-7-2017_dCN_fCNWS_xLIDyC-2_ Some of the highlights are…
Quote:Church Historian Announces New 4-Volume History of the Church
Quote:Obviously much has happened since 1930. We have a team in our department working very hard to complete a four-volume history of the Church entitled Saints. It will be written in a style similar to James Michener or David McCullough.”
I happen to like David McCullough. This could be a problem. I’ve read the BH Roberts one (seriously) it’s a real slog. Well intended but a slog.
Quote:Elder Snow said the volumes will be “transparent, honest, and faithful,” with controversial aspects of Church history covered in the context of the entire story.
Quote:Endnotes and references, especially in the online version, will take interested readers to additional information, videos, articles, etc., in which they may have additional interest, Elder Snow said.
Quote:“The history will not be a reference work, but a narrative based on well-researched facts,” he said. “We believe this will be valuable to Church members to greatly enhance their knowledge of Church history in an interesting way. In my view, this will have an impact on members of the Church for generations to come.”
Should we send our thank you note to Marlin K. Jensen or Leonard Arrington?
I think the thank-you notes should go to Arrington, Jensen, Bushman, Mason, Uchtdorf and Holland (if I correctly recall their roles in producing the essays), Quinn, the Tanners, everyone who pushed for honesty from the inside, every “anti-Mormon” who called us out on our dishonesty from the outside, every “middle-way Mormon” who subtly helped move us in the right direction, and every ex-Mormon who voted with his or her feet which told the Q15 that we have a big, big problem. I didn’t know that the B. H. Roberts history is a slog. That helps explain how we chose Joseph F. Smith’s version of our history.
In a way Roberts was as transparent as could be. It was just so factual. He did try to persuade his take on it, but lots of it was just flat out fact. The burning of the press and Joseph’s efforts to get acquitted were fascinating to me. Which means the first Thank you notes go to Roberts, I guess. Then we will do the rest.
mom3 wrote:
In a way Roberts was as transparent as could be. It was just so factual. He did try to persuade his take on it, but lots of it was just flat out fact. The burning of the press and Joseph’s efforts to get acquitted were fascinating to me.Which means the first Thank you notes go to Roberts, I guess. Then we will do the rest.
Good call.
The more I learn about Roberts, the more I’m impressed with the man. There aren’t any heroes in the traditional, too-perfect-to-be-real sense, but to me, Roberts is a hero anyway.
“Saints” is also the name of an Orson Scott Card historical fiction novel about a woman from England who is converted but her husband isn’t. She becomes a secret plural wife of Joseph (whom she loves) in Nauvoo when polygamy was first getting started. Then becomes a plural wife of Brigham (whom she hated). Sound familiar? Card is a descendant of Zina Huntington. I think Card researched the history pretty well, but it was not well received among Mormons at the time (early 1980’s). Didn’t mean to derail the thread, but wondered if the name of the new church narrative will renew interest in Card’s nearly forgotten novel.
I have said for a while that Elder Jensen and Elder Snow are two reasons why I am optimistic about the way the Church is headed with regard to history, as well as the team of historians who now work for the Church. There are multiple unorthodox, progressive people involved, and that excites me.
Also, I have an Uchtdorfian/Okazakian crush on B.H. Roberts. Dude was amazing.
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Also, I have an Uchtdorfian/Okazakian crush on B.H. Roberts. Dude was amazing.Quote:The more I learn about Roberts, the more I’m impressed with the man. There aren’t any heroes in the traditional, too-perfect-to-be-real sense, but to me, Roberts is a hero anyway.
Would it be tacky to make WWBHR Do bracelets?
T-shirts. Something. I love our present day hero’s.
mom3 wrote:
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Also, I have an Uchtdorfian/Okazakian crush on B.H. Roberts. Dude was amazing.Quote:The more I learn about Roberts, the more I’m impressed with the man. There aren’t any heroes in the traditional, too-perfect-to-be-real sense, but to me, Roberts is a hero anyway.
Would it be tacky to make WWBHR Do bracelets?
T-shirts. Something. I love our present day hero’s.
Maybe check with the folks that were going to sell all that “Ponderize” stuff.
LH – Genius. I will get right to it. LookingHard wrote:
mom3 wrote:
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Also, I have an Uchtdorfian/Okazakian crush on B.H. Roberts. Dude was amazing.Quote:The more I learn about Roberts, the more I’m impressed with the man. There aren’t any heroes in the traditional, too-perfect-to-be-real sense, but to me, Roberts is a hero anyway.
Would it be tacky to make WWBHR Do bracelets?
T-shirts. Something. I love our present day hero’s.
Maybe check with the folks that were going to sell all that “Ponderize” stuff.
😆 Mom3, thanks for sharing that. It’s about time the brethren are starting do more than just put this stuff on the church’s website and hardly announce it. I can’t wait until the first volume gets published next year!
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