{"id":137421,"date":"2018-11-06T11:41:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T18:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/the-end-of-the-mormon-tabernacle-choir.html"},"modified":"2018-11-06T11:41:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T18:41:37","slug":"the-end-of-the-mormon-tabernacle-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/the-end-of-the-mormon-tabernacle-choir.html","title":{"rendered":"The End of the &quot;Mormon&quot; Tabernacle Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is making a huge official push to get people &#8212; inside and outside of the church &#8212; to stop using &quot;Mormon&quot; and &quot;LDS&quot; as convenient shortcuts for the lengthy denomination&#39;s name. The idea seems to be to make sure there&#39;s a focus on the &quot;Jesus Christ&quot; part. It&#39;s gone so far as to rebrand the Mormon Tabernacle Choir as the (also lengthier) &quot;Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In general, I tend to favor letting people call themselves what they want, in terms of names or general terms, and being sensitive to that preference as long as it&#39;s not intentionally misleading. I do have to say that writing out that name in full is a PitA, though, especially after first reference, and while the refocusing of the brand on Christ makes sense for them, they&#39;re going about it in a very clumsy and, I suspect, long-term unsustainable manner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.economist.com\/erasmus\/2018\/11\/06\/mormons-fight-to-be-called-by-their-full-name'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ZiRSzTk1LrzeLiFxqjDvVvQa995meaU0WYdtuOuc8tAK3JQA_leuz9-rL21nsZAxX1Wt--wx1Ts6ti-m3EFHdH1Q09y8pw11nCQGhtf9DTi4QfNFEBWhSA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.economist.com\/erasmus\/2018\/11\/06\/mormons-fight-to-be-called-by-their-full-name'>Mormons fight to be called by their full name &#8211; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Yjuhf93Rk9V'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is making a huge official push to get people &#8212; inside and outside of the church &#8212; to stop using &quot;Mormon&quot; and &quot;LDS&quot; as convenient shortcuts for the lengthy denomination&#39;s name. The idea seems to be to make sure there&#39;s a focus on the &quot;Jesus Christ&quot; part. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/the-end-of-the-mormon-tabernacle-choir.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The End of the &quot;Mormon&quot; Tabernacle Choir&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43722,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/the-mormon-alphabet.html","url_meta":{"origin":137421,"position":0},"title":"The Mormon Alphabet","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Jul-14 3:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd never heard that Brigham Young had sponsored an alternative \"Desert Alphabet\" for the LDS settlements in Utah. \u00a0Interesting.\ufeff Brigham Young\u2019s Short-Lived, Experimental Mormon Alphabet Catherine Falzone, cataloger at the New-York Historical Society, recently\u00a0blogged about\u00a0three books printed in the Deseret Alphabet, a 19th-century experiment sponsored by the Church of Jesus\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23033,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/the-c-word-and-presidential-politics.html","url_meta":{"origin":137421,"position":1},"title":"The &#8220;C&#8221; Word and Presidential Politics","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Oct-11 12:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I am, of course, speaking of cult. 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