Family Foundation of Faith Mentoring Environment Grant (2015-2016):

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Dr. Justin Dyer, Dr. Michael Goodman, and Dr. Mark Ogletree, Department of Church History and Doctrine Academic Objectives Met The project met several academic objectives. The first was to collect the initial round of data for the Family Foundations of Faith project. Data were collected from over 600 families and were cleaned and prepared for […]

Examples of Egyptian Iconography of Late Bronze Age Canaan

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Amanda Buessecker and Faculty Mentor: Jeff Chadwick, Church History and Doctrine Introduction The globalized Late Bronze Age world was one of sophisticated trade, conquest, and foreign influence in many of the Old World’s nations. Archaeological excavations in modern Israel have revealed numerous artifacts of Egyptian origin and style within Canaan’s Late Bronze Age. The Late […]

Orthodoxy and Temple Ritual

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Nathan Astel and Faculty Mentor: Michael Mackay, Church History and Doctrine My research was initially aimed at researching the locations and implementation of the temple endowment in Nauvoo. As I began my research concerning the temple endowment, I realized that I was more interested in the theological implications of the endowment and how the endowment […]

Understanding our Early Christian Roots Translating and Publishing a Koine Greek Papyrus

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Zakarias Gram and Faculty Mentor: Lincoln H. Blumell, Religious Education- Ancient Scripture This project was focused on analyzing, transcribing, translating, and publishing an edition of an ancient Greek papyrus housed in Oklahoma City. The experience was both very educating and exciting for me, as I am pursuing a degree in Classics and will continue to […]

Newspapers and Mid-Nineteenth Century America’s Views of Mormonism

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Mason Price and Gerrit Dirkmaat, Church History and Doctrine Introduction With increasing access to archived American newspaper sources online, it is simpler than ever before to peer into the past through the lens of primary source news articles. Newspapers, though they have limitations in presenting historical information, can nonetheless be useful to uncover and better […]

A Servant of the Most High God: Elijah Able and the Priesthood Restriction

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Juan Valladares and Dr. Gerrit van Dyk, Religion and Family History Department Project Purpose The goal of this project is twofold: first, we outlined the life and ministry of Elijah Able, an early Mormon Pioneer and the first well documented African American man to be ordained to the Priesthood. Second, we historically analyzed “the priesthood […]

A Recently Recovered Source: Rethinking Joseph Smith’s Bible Translation

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Haley Wilson and Thomas Wayment, Ancient Scripture The following are a few key passages from the article we wrote together. When we first started the project our goal was the following: to compare the changes made by Joseph Smith to the Bible with contemporary commentaries of his day. In so doing I hope to tentatively reconstruct […]

The Papers of Jay Jensen and the Japan First Mission

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Academic objectives of our research project have been extremely successful. Several of our students produced papers from our research and presented them at a regional conference of the Association for Asian Studies. One of our students published her essay in the Religious Education student journal and won an award for her contribution. We have produced […]

Utah Territory in Official Civil War Records

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Kenneth L. Alford, Church History and Doctrine Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The purpose of this project was to find, transcribe, assemble, categorize, organize, edit, and publish (both a printed version and an electronic database version) the official records relating to Utah Territory’s involvement in the Civil War. […]

MEG Grant Final Report 2014-2015

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Robert P. Minert, Ph.D., A.G., Religious Education In 2013, I was awarded a mentoring grant under the MEG program for calendar years 2014-2015. The grant was for $20,000, all money stipulated for use as student wages. Advanced students of Germanic family history and German language were hired to extract data on German immigrants from old […]