Face in Hat Aaron Brewster & Eric Jepson

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

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/

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/

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/

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

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