Clark Monson teaches at BYU and is the son of the late President Thomas S. Monson. His essay in BYU Studies Quarterly, Rod Tip Up, recalls his fishing adventures with his father, the prophetic predecessor of President Russell M. Nelson.
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 Latter-day Saint myth.
Vaughn Scribner is the author of Inn Civility: Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society (New York University Press, 2019).
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.
T. C. Christensen is a cinematographer and director best known for religious films associated with the Prophet Joseph Smith and the pioneers, such as 17 Miracles and Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration. His latest movie is The Fighting Preacher.
Jewel Staite has more Stargate memories that she knows what to do with. She loved working with Joe Flanigan, Paul McGillion, and Amanda Tapping. And when it comes to David Hewlett, the Stargate: Atlantis actress sums him up in one word (hint: it has to do with food).
Natalie McKnight is president of the Dickens Society and Dean of the College of General Studies at Boston University.
Jason Herbert is a Florida high school history teacher and University of Minnesota doctoral candidate. He is also the founder of ‘Historians at the Movies.’
SALT LAKE CITY — “As a family we always had pizza night with the kids when ‘Atlantis’ was on,” said Lisa Denoncourt. “The show was a perfect balance of sci-fi, humor and lots of sarcasm. But most of all, we were bonding as a family over one of our favorite shows.”
The city of Nauvoo, IL is closely associated with the early history of Joseph Smith and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But the city has been home to different groups over time, and there’s even a tenuous connection to the biblical Song of Solomon. In Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo, Scott C. Esplin provides a social history of Nauvoo beginning in 1846.