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3.13.5 Bonus stories!

We had too many great stories to fit into our Church building program episode so here’s some more from Aaron’s uncles!

3.13 Close to home: the Church Building Program

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/

3.12 Minerva Teichert and the Manti Temple

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.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1988/10/harvesting-the-light-the-1890-paris-art-mission

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

https://mormonnewsreport.com/

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/

3.11 Poetry, Spies, and the Church Education System

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

http://signaturebookslibrary.org/why-utah-mormons-should-become-democrats-reflections-on-partisan-politics/

3.10 An International Church

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

3.9 Race, Priesthood, and David O’McKay

For Black History Month, we study Chapter 4 of David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism: “Blacks, Civil Rights, and the Priesthood.” The ban on black people holding the Priesthood was lifted in 1978.  The people, politics, and circumstances leading up to it, particularly in McKay’s time in the 50s and 60s, makes for a difficult, but fascinating conversation.  Struggle along with us as we grapple with the past to try and shape a better future.

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

Leiland Tanner - Coat of Colors (Kolobyte Peculiar Mix), from Peculiar People by Kolobyte

https://kolobyte.bandcamp.com/track/leiland-tanner-coat-of-colors-kolobyte-peculiar-mix

Gospel topic: Race and the Priesthood

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/race-and-the-priesthood

Standing on the Promises, Book One: One More River to Cross, by Margaret Blair Young

https://amzn.to/3km0EGQ

Martin Luther King Jr:  Letter from a Birmingham jail

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

Wiki: J Reuben Clark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Reuben_Clark#Racism_and_anti-Semitism

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein

https://amzn.to/2Nwaf22

Redlining

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

Why I Hate White Jesus, by James Goldberg

http://mormonmidrashim.blogspot.com/2020/05/why-i-hate-white-jesus.html

More on Anthony Obinna

https://www.thechurchnews.com/archives/2005-08-27/coming-full-circle-in-west-africa-90096

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVxNYQd4-v4

3.8 Broadly speaking

Following our theme of change in the church, we look at how our approach to media has changed over the last half century, from the early days of broadcasting to recent attitude shifts regarding social media and embracing new forms of communication

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

An Honest Liar (2014)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2246565/

“‘Julie Through the Glass’: The Rise and Fall of the Mormon TV Commercial”, By Rollo Romig

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/julie-through-the-glass-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-mormon-tv-commerical

“Be an Example of the Believers”, Mary N. Cook (2010)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2010/10/be-an-example-of-the-believers

LDS General Conference Corpus

https://www.lds-general-conference.org/

President Hinkley on 60 minutes

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/an-interview-with-gordon-hinckley/

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q

3.7 Tolerance

What do we do when we disagree with family, neighbors, and friends over things so important to us that it seems impossible to reconcile?  David O’McKay’s fundamental belief in free agency and love of those around him meant he respected other’s beliefs and lived a life of tolerance, while still taking action when he thought it was needed.  In this episode we look at specific examples of tolerance from his life and try to apply these lessons to our own lives as we navigate the modern world of opinion and debate.

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

Transcript of President Joe Biden’s inauguration speech

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/joe-biden-inauguration-speech-transcript-full-text-460813

Juanita Brooks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_Brooks

Dialogue Fireside, January 17: Benjamin Park on “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/

More on Amy B Lyman and Franklin S Harris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_B._Lyman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_S._Harris

Matters of Conscience, by Sterling M. McMurrin and L. Jackson Newell

http://signaturebookslibrary.org/sterling-m-mcmurrin/

No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, by Fawn M. Brodie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man_Knows_My_History

3.6 The Most American Episode

Today we discussed McKay Coppin’s article “The Most American Religion”, published in The Atlantic. It’s a great read or listen (find the audio link in the article!). We were particularly interested in his discussion of how our desire for acceptance affects how we interact with others as people of faith, and we applied that to our own experiences being LDS on the internet.

The Most American Religion, by McKay Coppins:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-most-american-religion/617263/

Benjamin Park’s thread on the difference between a global and international church:

https://twitter.com/benjaminepark/status/1340140374279548928

3.5 Ecumenical outreach and the healing of rifts

David O’McKay helped strengthen interfaith relationships during his tenure as President of the Church, yet Mormonism and the Catholic Church had a rocky relationship in the late 50s.  Thanks to several key events and the loving patience and ministry of Catholic Bishop Duane Hunt, the rift was healed and David O’McKay’s own attitude was changed.  Can this be a model for healing divides in modern communities?  Maybe!  Let’s talk about it!

The Great Brain book series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Brain

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

Bible dictionary on Prayer.  If you’ve never read this it’s worth your time :)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bd/prayer

The Purifying Power of Gethsemane, by Bruce R. McConkie. Again, one of the most powerful talks on the Atonement ever written.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1985/04/the-purifying-power-of-gethsemane

Mormon Doctrine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Doctrine_(book)