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Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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Healing From Toxic Perfectionism, Debra Theobald Mcclendon

BYU Studies

Perfect is the enemy of good.” This phrase is derived from a French proverb, yet it is most often attributed to the famous French writer Voltaire. It observes that those striving for perfection are their own worst enemies.1 Indeed, perfectionism is overly demanding of those who struggle with it. With its irrational and impossible demands, perfectionism can cause anxiety, create high levels of distress that inhibit learning and performance, damage relationships, and diminish the quality of life for otherwise highly competent and dedicated individuals. Perfectionism can be the main problem that leads someone to seek therapeutic services from a mental …

Perfectionism’S Influence On Adolescent Mental Health, Mark D. Ogletree

BYU Studies

Years ago, I was sitting in my counseling practice with a sixteen-year- old young man. He was a great teenager with many positive qualities. However, on this particular summer day, he came in a somber mood. I asked him what was bothering him. He began to share some of his problems with me. In my opinion, none were out of the ordinary. Nevertheless, I could see his lips begin to quiver, and then he broke down in tears. When he could compose himself, he uttered, “I know that God hates me.” And with that declaration, I knew that we had …

Eve At 87, Elizabeth Garcia

Inscape

—after Toni Morrison’s “Eve Remembering”

I remember still the reedy ache like the saxophone’s need swelling the tiled underground inside me—Again! I’d say if you asked.

On The Road With Richard Bushman, Grant Wacker

BYU Studies

Richard Bushman invited me to respond to his essay, given my long-standing interest in the Protestant encounter with world religions. With this very short essay of my own, I am pleased to offer a few words of appreciation and thoughts about further inquiries.

The Man With No Name: The Story Of The Brother Of Jared As An Anti-Babel Polemic, Walker Wright

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Within the text of the Book of Mormon, the name of Jared’s brother is never revealed. Various reasons have been offered for the lack of a name, but nothing conclusive has been offered. Taking a cue from the polemical nature of Old Testament theology, this paper argues that the opening of the book of Ether is a polemic against Babel, with the brother of Jared being contrasted against the people and ruler of Babel. Led by the mighty hunter Nimrod, the people of Babel refused God’s command to multiply and fill the earth. Instead, they gathered together, built a tower …

The Pathophysiology Of The Death Of Jesus The Christ, C. Thomas Black

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Centuries-long speculation continues regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of the Savior. Over the past century, the Savior’s tribulations between the Last Supper and his death on the cross have been scrupulously examined from a medical viewpoint. In this article I review many of these studies and, using current medical acumen, propose additional inferences and explanations based on scriptural, medical, and historical accounts. The evidence suggests that at some point between Gethsemane and his last moments on the cross, the Lord’s body was pushed beyond the limit that a normal mortal could endure. The Lord did, however, endure and completed …

Creating The Book Of Mormon Art Catalog Why Religious Art Matters, Jennifer Champoux

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

The Book of Mormon Art Catalog allows users to access and study a greater volume and variety of art based on this book of scripture than ever before. This open access digital database includes more than four thousand images from seven hundred different artists hailing from fifty-five nations. The catalog provides a resource for teachers, enhances possibilities for scholarship, and creates new opportunities for artists. As an ongoing gathering of art, the catalog can also inspire new production, including scenes or approaches currently underrepresented in the art. Incorporating more art into our study and teaching of the Book of Mormon …

Teaching That Leads To Enduring Conversion, Shon D. Hopkin, Ross Baron, Rob Eaton, Phillip Allred

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

This article includes four presentations centered on teaching that leads to enduring conversion. To integrate and nuance the concepts into a cohesive whole, the four ideas were followed by a dialogue discussion between the four authors. Following the dialogue, each presenter provided brief concluding thoughts. While this article follows the basic organization of the presentations, the authors have refined and expanded on the comments delivered at the conference.

Fantasia On Picasso's "Mandolin, Fruit Bowl, And Plaster Arm" (1925), Trenton Hickman

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Earth Tones, Torrin Omokoh

Inscape

Torrin Omokoh is a Utah-based student at Brigham Young University in her senior year. She is currently pursuing a BFA in Fine Art and has completed minors in Art History and Creative Writing with an emphasis in poetry. She lives happily in Provo, Utah with her loving husband and affectionate cat.

Blue Tile Fountain, Turkey, Roger Camp

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Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002 and Heat, Charta, Milano, 2008. His work has been awarded the prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence for European photography. His images have appeared in numerous journals including The New England Review, Paris Review and the New York Quarterly. Represented by the Robin Rice Gallery, NYC, more of his work may be seen on Luminous-Lint.com.

See You Around, Edward Supranowicz

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Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, The Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate. Edward is also a published poet who has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.

Front Matter: Editor's Note

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Surreal, Lauro Palomba

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Your Aspen Home And Growing Children, George Dibble

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This Is The End, Sue Latta

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Sue Latta is a determined and intuitive sculptor who creates visually poignant, skillfully executed artwork utilizing a variety of processes, including welding, woodworking, carving, casting and photography –she’s continually exploring new materials and processes in service of artistic expression.

Black Sheep, Merrijane Rice

BYU Studies

You don’t want to come to our party,

you say. No one here knows you

even though we all grew up together

in the same home. No one understands

how being with us feels

Blue Dockline Reflections, Turkey, Roger Camp

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Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002 and Heat, Charta, Milano, 2008. His work has been awarded the prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence for European photography. His images have appeared in numerous journals including The New England Review, Paris Review and the New York Quarterly. Represented by the Robin Rice Gallery, NYC, more of his work may be seen on Luminous-Lint.com.

East-West, Debasish Mishra

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Broken Dishes, Jessica Mohsen-Crellin

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The day the storm rained down I saw her, dressed in her Sunday best with her usually perfectly placed lace collar askew and timidly tame pantyhose torn, bringing all the dishes out to the yard to catch the rainwater. T

Unpunctuated Love, Jamie Holt

Inscape

Unconditional love is not something I think mortals have the capacity for. Don’t get me wrong, we strive for it, we hope some big guy upstairs has it . . . but to say I love someone unconditionally would be false in my eyes. Not fair for them. There are always conditions. Always actions, lists, parameters when love is given or withheld. Mortals can’t love unconditionally. And since I am mortal and also an English major, two conditions I grapple with daily, I started to see punctuation as the same thing.

On Confirming My Daughter, Christopher Bissett

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You receive the Holy Ghost so messy— like a catastrophic glitter bomb exploded in the chapel.

Portrait Of A Lady Without Hands: A Postmortem, Scott Hales

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Lying there, she looks alive, caught mid-blink, between breaths, as if all we need to do is tug at her puffy sleeve and whisper her awake.

Collagen, Erika Price

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I met Satan today. Actually, his name was Shawn. He was standing outside a beauty product store at the mall greeting patrons, his hands outstretched with moisturizer samples. Now, to be clear, I haven’t purposely set foot inside a mall since leg warmers were cool, and I had no idea that it has turned into an American Ninja Warrior course of high-pressured kiosks and desperate salespeople. I thought Shawn actually wanted me to have free moisturizer.

And Also I Ran, Lance Larsen

Inscape

I wheedled a ten-minute visit from the night nurse. This was Friday, the evening after my best friend hurtled through a windshield at 70 mph, the day before I drove to a numbing family reunion for blue-hair aunts. He had a machine to track his breaths, a tube to collect pee, and a pair of legs that would never again shuffle or glide or dance.

How To Keep House, Kate Davis

Inscape

Alternate your gaze between laptop, drywall, and churning clouds beyond the chipped French door.

Mistress Gu The Tigress: Warrior Women & Knight-Errantry In Outlaws Of The Marsh, Ryan K. Christenson

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

Outlaws of the Marsh, also commonly known as Water Margin, is one of the four most beloved classic novels of Chinese literature, most frequently attributed to the 14th-century writer Shi Nai’an. In this novel, one of the more relatively obscure characters among the 108 outlaws of Mount Liang is Gu Dasao “the Tigress,” a heroic woman who is normally characterized as a “woman general” (nüjiang) along with the other two prominent women in the novel, “Ten Feet of Steel” Hu Sanniang and Sun Erniang “the Witch.” This characterization has endured to this day, perhaps due to tradition or simply convenience. …

Volume 9 Full Issue

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

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