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LDS Miscellany through a Berkeley Lens
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Monday Jan 03, 2022
Monday Jan 03, 2022
Happy new year! We revisit older shows, adding updates on finance (billions of dollars worth), the Provo temple, the Devil in church meetings and certain prophecies about the color of horses.
Link to our Face in Hat discord server!
More about the deseret alphabet and Unicode by Kenneth R. Beesley:
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02169-deseret.pdf
https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/an-1860-english-hopi-vocabulary-written-in-the-deseret-alphabet/
https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb25-0/beesley.pdf
Original whistleblower article, by Jon Swaine, Douglas MacMillan and Michelle Boorstein:
Some Thoughts About Ensign Peak Advisers and the Church, by Sam Brunson
https://bycommonconsent.com/2019/12/17/some-thoughts-about-ensign-peak-advisers-and-the-church/
Let’s Talk About Money, by Sam Brunson
https://bycommonconsent.com/2021/08/21/lets-talk-about-money/#more-115349
Response to church’s response, by Sam Brunson
https://twitter.com/smbrnsn/status/1208433565945487360
The Good Shepherds musical:
https://thegoodshepherds.net/about-the-show
Provo temple pictures:
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/temples/photo-gallery/provo-utah-temple?lang=eng
Irreantum issue: Joe Smith and the Devil
https://irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/18_1_top/
Sympathy for the “Devil”, by Roxy Rawson:
https://irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/sympathy-for-the-devil/
Film Theory: Star Wars, How The Mandalorian PROVES the Empire was Right!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjWokxCfCvs
Eric’s comment in twitter thread on the OT:
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Starting off with the history of the People’s Park in Berkley, we segway into discussing Emily Kaplan’s article in the Washington Post, “The Rise of the Liberal Latter-day Saints.” It’s a great article and has generated lots of discussion, especially around LBGTQ issues. Join us!
Link to our Face in Hat discord server!
People's Park (Berkeley)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Park_(Berkeley)
The Rise of the Liberal Latter-day Saints and the battle for the future of Mormonism, by Emily Kaplan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/09/27/rise-liberal-latter-day-saints/
First Person: Berkeley's Matt Marostica on How to Make Progressive Change within a Conservative Church
Fireside podcast Ep. 6—No Compartments (David Dark)
https://www.firesidepod.org/episodes/dark
Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious, by David Dark
https://www.amazon.com/Lifes-Short-Pretend-Youre-Religious/dp/0830844465
Human History Gets a Rewrite, by William Deresiewicz
Garden of Enid: Enid vs. The Big Tent, by Scott Hales
https://thegardenofenid.tumblr.com/post/94527291396/enid-vs-the-big-tent-8122014/amp
Benjamin Park’s response to Emily Kaplan’s essay
https://twitter.com/BenjaminEPark/status/1442616042627469312
Prop 8 - The Musical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_hyT7_Bx9o
Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism, by Terryl L. Givens
https://www.amazon.com/Stretching-Heavens-Eugene-England-Mormonism/dp/146966433X
Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Saturday Oct 09, 2021
Brigham Young loved the Deseret alphabet, and so do we. It’s so cool looking and old and kinda weird. It’s perfect Mormon history and it’s forever enshrined in Unicode. Let’s take a look!
Link to new Face in Hat discord server!
Start here!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
English Phonotypic Alphabet, developed by Sir Isaac Pitman and Alexander John Ellis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Phonotypic_Alphabet
George D. Watt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_D._Watt
A Simplified Alphabet, by Mark Twain
https://englishliterature.net/mark-twain/a-simplified-alphabet
Monsters and Mormons
https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Mormons-Wm-Henry-Morris/dp/0982781245
Quite Interesting, J series, ep 13, Jobs
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B084DL9FQC/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s10
Making Peace: Personal Essays, by Eugene England, Chapter 4, On Bringing Peace To BYU, With The Help Of Brigham Young
http://signaturebookslibrary.org/on-bringing-peace-to-byu-with-the-help-of-brigham-young/
Dialogue Book Report #13: Kristine Haglund on Eugene England
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/dialogue-book-report-13-kristine-haglund-on-eugene-england/
The Deseret Alphabet in Unicode, by Kenneth R. Beesley
The Stainless Steel Rat
Sunday Sep 26, 2021
Sunday Sep 26, 2021
Did you know they had smallpox vaccines in the 1700s? Join us as we kick off season 4 of Face in Hat with some history and then an in-depth look at one of the most important modern miracles, the mRNA vaccine against Covid 19.
Link to new Face in Hat discord server!
The Plague Year: The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy, by Lawrence Wright
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year
Twitter thread by by Michael Harriot on Cotton Mather, Onesimus, and smallpox vaccinations in the 1700s
https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1432060194276659203
Inoculation Origins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation#Origins
The History of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, by Stanford T Shulman
https://www.nature.com/articles/pr200425/
Deseret Evening News | 1900-11-17 | To the Latter-Day Saints
https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=1906891&q=smallpox&parent_i=1906796
LDS Humanitarian Programs
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/humanitarian-service/church
LDS Church kicks in $20M toward global COVID vaccination push, by Peggy Fletcher Stack
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2021/02/26/lds-church-kicks-m-toward
2 Billion COVID-19 Vaccinations Roll out to At-Risk Populations Church donation helps support UNICEF’s role in global effort
The sprint to solve coronavirus protein structures — and disarm them with drugs, by Megan Scudellari
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01444-z
mRNA Vaccine (not mentioned on the show, but excellent :)
Why It Actually Took 50 Years to Make COVID mRNA Vaccines, SciShow, Hosted by: Hank Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPeeCyJReZw
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines: How could anything developed this quickly be safe? By Moon Nahm, M.D.
The tangled history of mRNA vaccines, by Elie Dolgin
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02483-w
How the vaccine works (Tik Tok)
Sunday Jul 11, 2021
Sunday Jul 11, 2021
We missed posting this one during Pride month, but it’s relevant! Join us for a conversation with local beloved Berkeleyite Paul. We hear how his relative worked on the Oakland Temple in the 50s, and about Paul’s life being gay in San Francisco in the 80s. He loves the temple, and hearing his testimony was delightful. Thanks Paul!
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince and WM Robert Wright
https://www.amazon.com/David-McKay-Rise-Modern-Mormonism/dp/0874808227
Photos!
Sandwiches! From Paul: “It was nice to happily share sandwiches in 1962 with a person born in 1874.”
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/8pyxrz/arthur_sandwiches.jpg
Calligraphy:
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7rfc9k/arthur_calligraphy.png
Photos from the Oakland Temple construction:
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/da6h64/oaklandtempleconstruction1.png
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/bq3jh4/oaklandtempleconstruction2.png
Friday Jun 18, 2021
Friday Jun 18, 2021
We had too many great stories to fit into our Church building program episode so here’s some more from Aaron’s uncles!
Saturday Jun 12, 2021
Saturday Jun 12, 2021
Aaron’s Grandpa was a building missionary who built churches all over the pacific northwest. We welcome Aaron’s uncles onto the show (yay!) who helped build these churches as the family moved from location to location. We were very happy to hear what it was like on the ground during one of the most rapid expansions in the church’s history. Thanks for joining us!
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince and WM Robert Wright
https://www.amazon.com/David-McKay-Rise-Modern-Mormonism/dp/0874808227
Essential Craftsman
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzr30osBdTmuFUS8IfXtXmg
Mission letter
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/i8qqi3/mckay_letter_r.png
Dialogue Fireside #4 with Benjamin Park, “Mormonism’s Many Modernisms: What the Faith’s Alternative Trajectories in the Early Twentieth Century Tell Us About the Twenty-First.”
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/dialogue-fireside-4-w-benjamin-park/
Thursday May 20, 2021
Thursday May 20, 2021
Temple renovations in Manti were scheduled to remove murals by LDS painter Minerva Teichert, but that decision was reversed. Join us as we look into her story and work, art in the church in general, and how remembrance and ritual soaks in our very beings.
Minerva Teichert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva_Teichert
The Deseret Alphabet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
John Hafen's "O My Father" illustrations: https://byustudies.byu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/36.1PheyseyTestimony-b101cd84-1291-4e99-8614-0844a61b49f9.pdf
Harvesting the Light: The 1890 Paris Art Mission, by Giles H. Florence, Jr.
Manti Utah Temple
https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/manti-utah-temple/
Lots of prints available for the two paintings we mentioned. Since we didn’t want to endorse a particular website, here are some convenient google searches to see them:
https://www.google.com/search?q=queen+esther+minerva+teichert&tbm=isch
https://www.google.com/search?q=christ+in+the+red+robe+minerva+teichert&tbm=isch
Minerva Teichert’S Manti Temple Murals, by Doris R Dant
https://byustudies.byu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/38.DantMinerva.pdf
Point and Counterpoint:
Point: It’s just art, by Jonathan Green
https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2021/03/its-just-art/
Counterpoint: A Feeling of Loss–On Murals and Temples, by Chad Nielsen
https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2021/03/counterpoint-a-feeling-of-loss/
Mormon News report
Ritual, Remembrance, and Minerva Teichert’s Art, by Russel Arben Fox
https://bycommonconsent.com/2021/04/05/ritual-remembrance-and-minerva-teicherts-art/
At Last She Said It podcast, Episode 049: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall
https://atlastshesaidit.org/episode-049-mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/
Icons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon
What the LDS Church wants to know from its young adult members, by Jana Riess
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2021/03/23/jana-riess-what-lds/
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
This was a fun one and we went all over the place. From a really great 1700s poem on truth, to BYU spy rings, to the nature of character in education, join us as we look at what church education looked like in the 60s and speculate on how it might have been different today.
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince and WM Robert Wright
https://www.amazon.com/David-McKay-Rise-Modern-Mormonism/dp/0874808227
"Act Well Thy Part", David O. McKay's Lifelong Motto
https://education.byu.edu/magazine/winter2016/act_well_thy_part
"Home Literature", Orson F. Whitney
http://mldb.byu.edu/homelit.htm
Isaac Watts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Watts
High res shot of the Isaac Watts poem, from “The improvement of the mind”
https://archive.org/details/suppimproveofmin00wattuoft/page/72/mode/2up
Ernest L. Wilkinson, spy ring on wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_L._Wilkinson#The_1966_BYU_spy_ring_controversy
Ernest L. Wilkinson and the 1966 BYU Spy Ring: A Response to D. Michael Quinn, by Jeff D. Blake
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V28N01_175.pdf
Dialogue book report podcast
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/dialogue-book-report/
Why Utah Mormons Should Become Democrats: Reflections On Partisan Politics
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
How did the church become international? How much more do we have to go? Let’s look at David O. McKay’s contribution and see how we can apply it to our present church.
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince and WM Robert Wright
https://www.amazon.com/David-McKay-Rise-Modern-Mormonism/dp/0874808227
Liken the scriptures unto yourselves:
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/19.23-24#23
Find more about the Beyond the Block and the Foyer podcasts on Dialogue!
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcastnetwork/
Hajj
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj
Regarding our discussion of international vs. global. This episode was recorded before General Conference, and the Spring 2021 Sunday Morning session was awesome. Nearly every talk was from an international member and there was lots of international music. Seemed like a great step.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2021/04/sunday-morning-session