Cumorah 2024: 2 The Saints book

The fourth volume in the Saints series was recently published. There's an excellent article about the series here: 

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2024/11/20/saints-diversity-of-a-global-faith/

The historians have done a phenomenal job bringing all these accounts together. The current volume, Sounded in Every Ear, brings the history up through the year 2020.

The Saints books are a wonderful compilation of Church history that helps unify Latter-day Saints around the world. Every ward and branch in the Church has examples of faith, miracles and gifts of the Spirit that could be contributed to the ongoing historical narrative of the Restoration.

There is a world-wide, awe-inspiring and expanding collection of narratives that individually and collectively testify of the Restoration and the truthfulness and power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

And it's fun to see it unfold while also being part of it.

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Readers here may know that the first volume of Saints had some problematic narratives that veered away from the historical sources, particularly regarding the origin and setting of the Book of Mormon. While we all realize the book cannot include every detail, we can also see that editorial decisions create narratives that become accepted as facts. When these narratives contradict the historical record, or create a false narrative present, readers who later discover the authentic historical sources become disillusioned and skeptical. 

That's why it's better to be accurate in the first place.

In the pursuit of clarity, charity and understanding, I wrote about these narratives on another blog in the hopes that the errors and omissions could be corrected in future editions, particularly the electronic editions. These are very simple and obvious corrections.

I'm still hopeful that this can be accomplished so Latter-day Saints everywhere can have access to the most accurate history.

Here are a few of the most popular posts from that blog:

https://saintsreview.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-mary-whitmer-problem.html

https://saintsreview.blogspot.com/2018/09/chapter-4-be-watchful.html

https://saintsreview.blogspot.com/2021/09/checking-references-seer-stones-foreign.html

https://saintsreview.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-historians-explain-censorship-in.html