Join us for the Richard L. Evans Memorial Lecture, featuring UVU president Astrid S. Tuminez, on Thursday, September 23, 2021, at 7:30 pm in the Hinckley Center Assembly Hall at BYU! The title of the lecture is “Finding My Faith: A Journey to Discover the ‘Virtuous, Lovely, Of Good Report, and Praiseworthy.’” Of her upcoming lecture, Tuminez writes, “At a recent dinner in my home, a friend reminded me of the 13th Article of Faith. These words have always been powerful in my life. I was born and raised Catholic but converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at a young age. Over many decades, I have lived, worked, and traveled in diverse places. I have tried to feed my curiosity about the spiritual foundations of humans and the ways we navigate the always-shifting landscape of our existence. My faith is richer because of the influences of other systems of belief and other ways of living and being. In my interaction and communion with faiths other than my own, I have come to appreciate more deeply the love of God, which can be mysterious, but which more often than not also manifests itself in languages and experiences that we, His children, are able to understand.” Save the date!

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Watch our video “Zion: A People, a Place, a State of Heart” on our YouTube channel! It supports this week's “Come, Follow Me” reading! https://youtu.be/HYszh8D_cxY

Looking for a quiet place to study? Visit the Joseph Smith Building’s atrium! Visit the JSB to learn more!

Interested in teaching seminary? Attend the Seminary Teacher Seminar, held on Friday, September 24, 2021! Entries are limited, so sign up now to reserve your spot! https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=s-7mYddfqkquPGHo3rCbeXIHsbxS7o5GqDv1LzHPGiBUNUdYS1RKRVNJOVZBMDFVVjlQMTNLNlBGWS4u&qrcode=true

Hey Cougars, we hope you had a great first day of school so far! Comment below and tell us what you’re looking forward to most about this semester!

Have a great weekend! We're excited to see you on Monday when fall semester starts! Photo by Aubrey Odom on Unsplash

Watch our newest book trailer for “Truth Seeker: The Life of Joseph F. Merrill, Scientist, Educator, and Apostle,” by Casey Paul Griffiths! https://youtu.be/MPOYEmU_FPc Background: Joseph F. Merrill became the first native Utahn to earn a PhD. Working at the University of Utah, he labored to reconcile the secular world with the spiritual world of his youth. In 1912 he helped establish the first Latter-day Saint seminary at Granite High School. As Church commissioner of education, he helped establish the institutes of religion, with a mission to allow college students to reconcile the secular truths learned in university settings with the truths of the gospel. He created the Religion Department at Brigham Young University and encouraged young scholars to produce professional studies of the Latter-day Saint religion. In 1933 Merrill was called as an Apostle, where he continued his work to modernize the Church. In the final years of his life, Merrill continued to work to show that science and religion could be reconciled.

Gaye Strathearn was featured in the newest episode of Y Religion! Check it out by going to https://rsc.byu.edu/media/y-religion.

The RSC’s supplemental reading features the focus of this week’s “Come, Follow Me”: Doctrine and Covenants section 93. “Doctrine and Covenants 93: How and What We Worship,” by Craig James Ostler, is available to read online to aid in your personal and family study this week! Check it out by visiting https://rsc.byu.edu/vol-3-no-2-2002/doctrine-covenants-93-how-what-we-worship.

This week for “Come, Follow Me” the focus is Doctrine and Covenants sections 89–92, which includes the revelation known as the “Word of Wisdom.” Check out our supplementary video resource, “The Word of Wisdom” on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aA-iuGJjuAs

Gaye Strathearn, recently appointed associate dean of Religious Education, is featured in the newest episode of Y Religion! While many commandments are fairly clear, how to “remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy” has been debated for millennia. Professor Gaye Strathearn from BYU Religious Education has researched this discussion during the centuries surrounding Jesus’s mortal ministry. This episode explores efforts to navigate the Sabbath day by Israelites in the late second temple period, and how we can learn from them to remember and keep the Sabbath holy today. https://rsc.byu.edu/media/y-religion