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The pittsburgh humanities festival spans over 3 days for acts of art, literature, music, science, policy, politics all through amazing shows. The publication history of the book of mormon bruce satterfield department of religious education, brigham young university idaho this article appeared in the church news, jan. The musical follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries sent halfway around the world to spread the good word. All these comments atributing immutable perfection to the 1921 book of mormon resemble a statement that an elderly lady made to my father, who was a traveling elder in the methodist church.
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