(Assignments are found below the Announcements section.)
R. E. Clark: "Students often report enjoying instructional methods from which they end up learning the least." (Educational Psychologist, 17, 92-101.)
Boyd K. Packer: "A desire to learn is one thing. An expressed willingness to be taught and to be corrected is quite another.... Many will say they want to learn but feel threatened if there is the slightest element of correction in what they are given." (BYU, 4 March 1990; BYU Today, March 1991, p. 24.)
Click here for President Kim B. Clark's counsel for a Zion university: be prepared and on time.
1. GUTENBERG BIBLE REPLICA: The Library has acquired a replica copy of the Gutenberg Bible as well as an original King James ("Authorized") Bible.
2. Can I go home early? BYU-I Policy statement about leaving for home before the semester is over.
3. NOTICE
Date: February 25, 2008
To: General Authorities; Area Seventies; Stake, Mission, District, and Temple Presidents; Bishops and Branch Presidents
From: Office of the First Presidency
Subject: False StatementA statement has been circulated that asserts in part that the youth of the Church today “were generals in the war in heaven . . . and [someone will] ask you, ‘Which of the prophet’s time did you live in?’ and when you say ‘Gordon B. Hinckley’ a hush will fall, . . . and all in attendance will bow at your presence.”
This is a false statement. It is not Church doctrine. At various times, this statement has been attributed erroneously to President Thomas S. Monson, President Henry B. Eyring, President Boyd K. Packer, and others. None of these Brethren made this statement.
Stake presidents and bishops should see that it is not used in Church talks, classes, bulletins, or newsletters. Priesthood leaders should correct anyone who attempts to perpetuate its use by any means, in accordance with “Statements Attributed to Church Leaders,” Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1 (2006), 173.
Maps:
Religions in America:
Apostasy - Restoration:
John A. Tvedtnes, Meridian Magazine online, 19 July 05 -- "Among the early Church Fathers who taught that men were destined to become gods were Justin Martyr, Origen, Tertullian, Irenaeus of Lyon, Clement of Alexandria, Gregory Nazianzen, Heraclitus, Cyprian of Carthage, Novation, Maximus the Confessor, Athanasius of Alexandria, Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine of Hippo, the Persian Aphrahat of Syria, and a number of Christian pseudepigrapha."
Orson Pratt's discourse on the Plan of Salvation (part of the "Plan of Salvation Overview").
Suicide. Lots of questions have been asked about this topic. For one of the best articles on the subject, click here. This is an Ensign article by M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve.
Should sisters feel obligated to go on missions? Click here to read what President Hinckley said in General Conference.
Constitutional Amendment for marriage -- statement by the First Presidency.
What have the Brethren said about the "gay" lifestyle? Click here to see a talk from the Ensign by Elder Dallin H. Oaks.
The official Gene Cook - Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) talk "THE ETERNAL NATURE OF THE LAW OF CHASTITY" is now available on the BYU-Idaho Library Electronic Reserve: The Library has made it available only in pdf format. Click here.
Click here for Clyde Williams' response to a talk on the atonement in which the notion is presented that matter has "intelligence," free will, and/or agency and that matter can choose to disobey God.
Joseph Smith, "Try the Spirits" -- Note how the Prophet judges other religions.
Joseph Fielding McConkie, "The First Vision & Religious Tolerance" regarding judging other religions (PDF only).
R J Matthews, "How Did JS Translate the JST?"
Charted Course (J. Reuben Clark)
"The Foolishness of Teaching" B R McConkie
Humanist Secularist Declarations
"Debunking the Galileo Myth" the false war between science and religion. By Dinesh D'Souza.
"Learning by Faith" by David A. Bednar.
Click here for a PDF article on penitence and repentance (Catholic Lent).
