Volume 45, no. 4 © 2006
Item #2681290
The Presidential Advisor and Special Envoy to the Middle East, Dr. Alwi Shihab, visited BYU on October 10, 2006. His forum address was a historic occasion. It was unprecedented for a member of the Quorum of the Twelve to introduce a guest speaker not with just a few words, but with a significant message. In Building Bridges of Understanding: The Church and the World of Islam and Building Bridges of Harmony through Understanding, President Packer and Dr. Shihab emphasize that radical interpretations of religion threaten all Christians, Muslims, and those of other faiths.

Some critics of the Smith family have suggested that their behavior at the deaths of Alvin and Joseph Sr. are indicative of mental instability. Not so, says Dr. Samuel Brown. In his insightful and thoroughly-researched article "The 'Beautiful Death' in the Smith Family," he shows that their bereavement fits comfortably within the "Beautiful Death" culture of antebellum America.

Karl G. Maeser’s influence upon Brigham Young University and its sponsoring church cannot be underestimated, but what, we might ask, created within this gifted teacher an insatiable curiosity about Mormonism at a time when missionaries were not even allowed into his country? The surprising answer, suggests A. LeGrand Richards in "Moritz Busch’s Die Mormonen and the Conversion of Karl G. Maeser, is an anti-Mormon book written by a prestigious German journalist and editor.
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