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David T

@improvementera.com

Latter-day Saint Christian. Random musings on Scripture, History, Culture, Lived Religion & Liturgy. Not a hater.

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David T@improvementera.com · 2d ago

Y'know, those two degrees of the CK in the presence of the fulness of God that don't require horizontal hetero sealings are wide open for exploration and motivating folks to look forward to, just sayin'.

David T@improvementera.com · 3d ago

Oaks is the #1 person who has been pushing for formalization of ritual over the years (Prayer Language, Right Hand Sacrament) - but without a full liturgical structure to make sense of it and to contextualize it, they're just random policies. This could be changing.

David T@improvementera.com · 3d ago

I hope part of a reformed Sacrament meeting (apart from moving the Altar to center which I think is very good!) is more liturgical participation by the congregation beyond Hymns. Many ways to do that, including a return to (optional) congregational kneeling during the Sacramental Prayers.

David T@improvementera.com · 3d ago

I hope part of a reformed Sacrament meeting (apart from moving the Altar to center which I think is very good!) is more liturgical participation by the congregation beyond Hymns. Many ways to do that, including a return to (optional) congregational kneeling during the Sacramental Prayers.

David T@improvementera.com · 3mo ago

Listen, I'd be in favor of installing optional-use genuflection benches on all the pew so the Priests can truly "kneel with the church" during the Sacrament prayers, so sounds good to me 😅

David T@improvementera.com · last wk.

I'm an absolite sucker for Deseret's fancy pretty display editions of Church published books. (Legacy Edition of the Book of Mormon is the latest acquisition.)

Pretty Latter-day Saint Books.
David T@improvementera.com · 2w ago

Sure, the Clayton journals will be cool, but if someone were to ask what would be my Holy Grail Church History text to access - one that is currently known to actually exist - without a doubt it would be the 1877 Temple Master Transcript prepared by Wilford Woodruff and Brigham Young.

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David T@improvementera.com · 2w ago

Sure, the Clayton journals will be cool, but if someone were to ask what would be my Holy Grail Church History text to access - one that is currently known to actually exist - without a doubt it would be the 1877 Temple Master Transcript prepared by Wilford Woodruff and Brigham Young.

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David T@improvementera.com · 2w ago

I divide #ComeFollowMe into 5 daily readings per week. Today included Psalm 23, which I studied with my son, who agreed to work on memorizing it this week. After dropping him off at school, I listened, as I always do, to the Daily Catholic Mass Reading. Today's Responsorial Psalm was Psalm 23.

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David T@improvementera.com · 2w ago

Love the second edition (which I have), and also anything I've experienced from Amy-Jill Levine. Third will be wonderful! (Also love the Jewish Annotated Apocrypha, which adds Jubilees into the traditional collection as a treat, and to be a representative of the Enochic tradition)

Dan McClellan@maklelan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Very excited to tuck into the third edition of The Jewish Annotated New Testament, which incorporates the NRSVue. Greatly appreciate Amy-Jill Levine & Marc Zvi Brettler’s work on this & other projects (like The Bible With and Without Jesus). Would love to have them on the podcast at some point.

David T@improvementera.com · 2w ago

I get why changes in Temple Square, Hymnal, the Temple, observance of Holy Week etc. comes across to some as pandering, or 'trying to make others accept us'. I get that but don't believe that's the case. I think we're finally correcting for the over-compensation regarding distinction we once took.

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David T@improvementera.com · 2w ago

Fascinating that in this week's Psalms readings for #ComeFollowMe, it jumps from Psalm 8 to Psalm 19. What interesting is not that it skips Psalms (there's a lot!), it's that within 8-19 are some substantial re-writing of those Psalms in the JST. rsc.byu.edu/ascending-mo...

“Give Me Right Word, O Lord”: The JST Changes in the Psalms | Religious Studies Center

Joseph Smith’s translation of the Bible (referred to in the Church today as the Joseph Smith Translation and abbreviated as JST) was a revelatory and educational experience that played an important ro...

rsc.byu.edu

David T@improvementera.com · 3w ago

So yeah, I'm a little hyper-fixated. But a Hymnal linked to the specific hour of the specific day of the Liturgical Year is just super cool. (Some hymns have different tunes depending on whether sung on weekday or Sunday!!!)

Photo of hand holding black cover of gold title gilded "The Divine Office Hymnal" with a cross symbol) in front of a copy of the green covered gold title gilded "Hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" with a Tabernacle Organ symbol.
David T@improvementera.com · 3w ago

Details and policies aside (which are indeed messy and at times arbitrary), we adopted our second child, and had the opportunity to have him sealed, w/our oldest child (preschooler) present. I treasure that memory, and wish all who had kids could have a similar one.

🐝🐍The Grand Scoobah🔮🧙‍♀️@tokensandsigns.org · 3w ago

TIL that if you are LDS and have a child via a surrogate, you have to later go to the temple to have your child sealed to you. Apparently, the parental sealing covenant is effected within a uterus.

David T@improvementera.com · 3w ago

So in the Roman Catholic Church, the Latin Nova Vulgata is the Reference Text used for all reference liturgical books. It establishes canonical versions of scriptural texts (IE, longer Esther, Daniel, etc), standardized versification, and is a 'tie-breaker' in disputed translational meanings...

David T@improvementera.com · 3w ago

But this raised an interesting question I didn't know the answer to: If the Latin Nova Vulgata is the church's reference edition, what does that have to do with vernacular translations, and the use of scripture in the mass? It's actually kind of cool, and made think about our Church's approach...

Bibliorum Sacrorum - Nova Vulgata Book Cover
David T@improvementera.com · 3w ago

With my interest in prayer books, and particularly the liturgical language reforms in English for the Catholic Church, I've been considering the different ways our own tradition's 'Official Normative Books' line up with the categories of those in Roman Catholicism.

A series of Roman Catholic Liturgical Books in English.
David T@improvementera.com · 4w ago

Reading Greek Esther, and realizing that the changes and additions made in that version (found in the Apocrypha/Deuterocanon) feel a LOT like the types of changes and additions made throughout Joseph Smith's Bible Revision (JST) - which, curious enough, doesn't touch Esther.

A page from Joseph Smith's bible he used as part of his Bible Revision Project, the page is from the Apocrypha, with the heading "The rest of the Chapters of the Book of Esther..."