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I was present on 19 March 2004 when Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles delivered the address from which this passage is taken. \u00a0He died just four months later:<\/p>\n
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\u201cIn a way, LDS scholars at BYU and elsewhere are a little bit like the builders of the temple in Nauvoo who worked with a trowel in one hand and a musket in the other. \u00a0Today scholars building the temple of learning must also pause on occasion to defend the Kingdom. \u00a0I personally think this is one of the reasons the Lord established and maintains this University. \u00a0The dual role of builder and defender is unique and ongoing. \u00a0I am grateful we have scholars today who can handle, as it were, both trowels and muskets.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nElder Neal A. Maxwell, \u201cBlending Research and Revelation\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
It makes me think of another comment that was sent out to all of the professors at Brigham Young University back on 6 April 2015 by the BYU Faculty Center, who attributed it to\u00a0one Jeffrey R. Holland. \u00a0(He was identified as \u201cPresident of BYU, 1980-1989.\u201d) \u00a0Here it is:<\/p>\n
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\u201cDefending the faith intelligently is only one kind of aid we might offer our far-flung brothers and sisters, albeit surely the most important one.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Here\u2019s an interesting suggestion from the ever interesting Jeff Lindsay: \u00a0 \u201cA Subtle Book of Mormon Tribute to Single Mothers?\u201d \u00a0 *** \u00a0 It\u2019s been at least a day since I last proposed an item for your Christopher Hitchens Memorial \u201cReligion Poisons Everything\u201d file, which must by now surely be bursting dangerously at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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