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Vaughn J. Featherstone

12 speeches between 1974 and 2001, mostly as Seventy. 80,819 words in the transcripts.

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Speeches
12
1974–2001
Words
80,819
in the transcripts
Reading grade
8.8
Flesch–Kincaid, average
Scriptures cited
86
7.2 per speech
Callings
Seventy
also Presiding Bishopric
Leadership record
linked
in the leadership database

Speeches by year

19742001

Signature phrases

Words and two-word phrases this speaker uses far more than the rest of the corpus, by weighted log-odds. Stop words, names of deity and the ordinary vocabulary of a sermon are excluded.

  • got 104
  • goliath 27
  • bobby 20
  • featherstone 20
  • nebuchadnezzar 20
  • think 193
  • i’d 53
  • charity 60
  • president kimball 58
  • torch 18
  • i’ll 51
  • back 144

Scriptures cited most

  • Moses11
  • Doctrine and Covenants10
  • John7
  • Ether7
  • 1 Samuel6
  • Alma6
  • 3 Nephi6
  • Job5

Callings when speaking

  • Seventy 9
  • Presiding Bishopric 3

As given in the bylines: of the Seventy · of the Presiding Bishopric

Every speech

  1. 3 Feb 1974Acres of Diamondsof the Presiding Bishopric · Devotional10,472 w2 refs
  2. 30 Mar 1975As If They Would Ask Him to Tarry a Little Longerof the Presiding Bishopric · Devotional6,462 w26 refs
  3. 1 Aug 1976No Other Talent Exceeds Spiritualityof the Presiding Bishopric · Devotional10,548 w4 refs
  4. 12 Oct 1976The Man of Christof the Seventy · Devotional5,346 w3 refs
  5. 27 Feb 1979“Charity Never Faileth”of the Seventy · Devotional5,008 w4 refs
  6. 26 Aug 1979We Never Know Where Walking in His Steps Will Leadof the Seventy · Devotional7,139 w17 refs
  7. 11 Aug 1981Pioneer Legacy: Our Brothers’ Keepersof the Seventy · Devotional6,628 w1 ref
  8. 5 Jun 1983The TorchbearerGeneral Authority Seventy · Devotional5,994 w0 refs
  9. 24 Sep 1985“The Last Drop in the Chalice”of the Seventy · Devotional5,282 w4 refs
  10. 7 Sep 1986Building Bricks Without Strawof the Seventy · Devotional7,280 w10 refs
  11. 12 Sep 1995A Man After God’s Own Heartof the Seventy · Devotional4,973 w6 refs
  12. 13 Feb 2001“Things Too Wonderful for Me”of the Seventy · Devotional5,687 w9 refs
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