by Nathan Richardson | Feb 24, 2012 | gospel, law and government
We feel that this chart is a great way of applying the prophets’ urging to “study the issues and candidates carefully” and to “ask … is the proposal, the policy, or the idea … right as measured by the counsel of the living oracles of God?” We’re sure others will come to varying conclusions, but as for us, we really do think for several reasons that Ron Paul is the best candidate for president because he most closely follows the repeated and united counsel of modern-day prophets as well as the letter and spirit of the Constitution.
by Nathan Richardson | Oct 24, 2011 | gospel
I picked up a book about holy sites around the world while perusing a bookstore. I found myself doing what some others probably do, too—turning to the index and looking up my own church to see what it says. It only mentioned the LDS Church in one passage, and I found a great opportunity to share with the author how what Mormons believe is very different from what was written in the book.
by Nathan Richardson | Sep 4, 2011 | Book of Mormon, Do-It-Yourself Scriptures, gospel, redesigned scriptures, scriptures
Here’s what I learned when I created my own customized the layout of the Book of Mormon from the files on my Do-It-Yourself Scripture page. I created my own personalized edition of the scriptures that is annotated in a way that made sense to me. Since I am sometimes asked this question, let me clarify: I am not talking about writing your own scriptures, or altering the wording of the current scriptures in order to satisfy your preferences. I am talking about choosing fonts and page size, inserting headings where a new section seems to begin, etc.
by Nathan Richardson | Aug 24, 2011 | Do-It-Yourself Scriptures, gospel, Pearl of Great Price, redesigned scriptures, scriptures
Here’s what I learned when I created my own customized the layout of the Pearl of Great Price from the files on my Do-It-Yourself Scripture page. I created my own personalized edition of the scriptures that is annotated in a way that made sense to me. Since I am sometimes asked this question, let me clarify: I am not talking about writing your own scriptures, or altering the wording of the current scriptures in order to satisfy your preferences. I am talking about choosing fonts and page size, inserting headings where a new section seems to begin, etc.
by Nathan Richardson | Jun 26, 2011 | Do-It-Yourself Scriptures, Doctrine and Covenants, gospel, redesigned scriptures, scriptures
Here are some insights I gained when I created my own customized the layout of the Doctrine and Covenants from the files on my Do-It-Yourself Scripture page. I created my own personalized edition of the scriptures that is annotated in a way that made sense to me. Since I am sometimes asked this question, let me clarify: I am not talking about writing your own scriptures, or altering the wording of the current scriptures in order to satisfy your preferences. I am talking about choosing fonts and page size, inserting headings where a new section seems to begin, etc.
by Nathan Richardson | Jun 7, 2011 | Book of Mormon, gospel, scriptures
In a previous post, I summarized an article by Joseph Spencer entitled “Prolegomena to Any Future Study of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon.” Recently, I had the chance to email back and forth with Joe and ask him some questions I still had after reading his article, and he gave me permission to post our exchange as an interview.
by Nathan Richardson | Apr 18, 2011 | gospel
We had an interfaith dialogue today with a group of about nine evangelical students and their professor, Dr. Dennis Okholm, from Azusa Pacific University, in the Los Angeles area of southern California. I invited some LDS friends so we could have about even numbers. That way everyone gets more of a chance to talk to someone else. We broke up into groups of 3-6 people and got to discuss beliefs. We had so much fun that we went on talking for over 3 hours.
by Nathan Richardson | Apr 1, 2011 | Doctrine and Covenants, gospel, scriptures
This morning, I just unwittingly found a small difference in the scriptural text between the 1981 printed edition and the online scripture text. Yes, I know that “thrash” and “thresh” are two forms of the same word, having the same meaning. I also know that the current online edition incorporated small changes to the supplementary material and in a few cases to the punctuation. But I did not know that the online edition had incorporated any changes to the actual wording of the scriptures. Very interesting!
by Nathan Richardson | Jan 8, 2011 | Do-It-Yourself Scriptures, gospel, redesigned scriptures, scriptures, StoryGuide Scriptures
One way I study the scriptures is by redesigning them in different ways. It started out as a one-time experiment, but I’ve ended up reformatting almost the entire standard works. When the scriptures were first written, there were no verse numbers or chapter breaks. So that’s how my files start out. I then go and enter headings, hit Enter at natural paragraph breaks, or color dialogue to make it easy to see at-a-glance if diety is talking, or if a prophet is talking, and how long the dialogue lasts. I’ve put links in this post so that others can redesign the scriptures on their own.
