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Sponsored by BYU Studies—What happens when you mix an established global celebrity, a growing worldwide religion, and a mischievous local trickster? This is the tale of Elvis Presley, the Book of Mormon, and a story that wasn’t. Continue reading “Elvis has left the library: Identifying forged annotations in a Book of Mormon”
Sponsored by BYU Studies—Vaughn Scribner is the author of Inn Civility: Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society (New York University Press, 2019). Continue reading “10 questions with Vaughn Scribner”
In the Old Testament, King Solomon settles a debate between two women who both claim to be a child’s mother by proposing to cut the child in half. In his latest book, “If Truth Were a Child” (Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 253 pages), BYU professor of humanities George Handley uses the story as a metaphor for the way people treat truth. Continue reading “BYU professor George Handley reflects on his faith in new book ‘If Truth Were a Child’”
T. C. Christensen is a cinematographer and director best known for religious films like 17 Miracles and Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration. His latest movie is The Fighting Preacher. Continue reading “10 questions with T. C. Christensen”
Sponsored by BYU Studies—Kenneth Lapatin is curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum and editor of the new book, Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Continue reading “10 questions with Kenneth Lapatin”