Awards

Kenneth L. Alford and William P. MacKinnon received the 2022 Western International Second Place Cofounders Award for Best Book for Fact, Fiction, and Polygamy: A Tale of Utah War Intrigue, 1857–1858: A. G. Browne’s ‘The Ward of the Three Guardians’ (Tanner Trust Series, Marriott Library, University of Utah Press, 2022).

Matthew J. Grey received a Faculty Recognition Award and a Good Samaritan Mentored Learning Award from the BYU Accommodation Center (2023). He was also awarded an Alcuin Fellowship from the BYU Honors Program (2024–2026).

Aaron P. Schade received BYU’s Experiential Learning Award.

Joseph M. Spencer was a finalist for Best Theology Article Award, John Whitmer History Association, for “Books of Mormon: Latter-day Saints, Latter Day Saints, and the Book of Mormon,” in Open Canon (2023). He was also a finalist for Best Work of Religious Non-Fiction, Association for Mormon Letters for Book of Mormon Studies: An Introduction and Guide, coauthored with Daniel Becerra, Amy Easton-Flake, and Nicholas J. Frederick (2023).

Selected Full-Time Faculty Publications

Alford, Kenneth L. “War’s Influence on Missionary Work.” In Thomas and Smith, Religious Liberty and Latter-day Saints, 463–94.

Alford, Kenneth L., and Sherilee B. Alford. “Book of Mormon Promised Blessings.” In Alford, Pierce, and Woodger, Book of Mormon Insights, 255–65.

Alford, Kenneth L., Krystal V. L. Pierce, and Mary Jane Woodger, eds., Book of Mormon Insights: Letting God Prevail in Your Life. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2023.

Alford, Kenneth L., and Scott M. Williams. “The Father and Son Wartime Journals of Eleazar and Francis Hubbel.” Journal of the South Carolina Historical Association (2021, published in 2023): 1–15.

Anderson, Camey L., and Kenneth L. Alford, “Mentoring Students Can Make a Difference.” The Teaching Professor, March 2023.

Baugh, Alexander L. “Bringing the Jackson County Antagonists to Justice: Edward Partridge’s and William W. Phelps’s Civil Lawsuits.” In Thomas and Smith, Religious Liberty and Latter-day Saints, 61–101.

Belnap,Daniel L. “‘And God Blessed the Seventh Day, and Sanctified It’: The Sabbath at Creation, Dedications, and Christ’s Theophany in 3 Nephi.” In Strathearn, Sacred Time, 1–24.

———. “Jewish Views of Resurrection.” Liahona, April 2023.

———.“‘That Ye Might Feel and See’: Touch in the First Day of Christ’s Ministry.” In Hilton, Frederick, Ogletree, and Pierce, I Glory in My Jesus, 211–34.

Blumell,Lincoln H. “A Name List on Claudius’s Letter to the Alexandrians (P.Lond. VI 1912).” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 69 (2023): 87–98.

———.“Textual Criticism.” In The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, edited by Taylor G. Petrey, Cory Crawford, and Eric A. Eliason, 230–41. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2023.

Calabro, David. “The Biblical World in the Book of Mormon.” In Petrey, Crawford, and Eliason, The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, 154–69.

———. “Jesus Christ as a Revealer of Ordinances in the Book of Mormon.” In Hilton, Frederick, Ogletree, and Pierce, I Glory in My Jesus, 249–67.

———. Review of J. F. Coakley, Syriac Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library Acquired since 1901. Hugoye 26, no. 1 (2023): 287–91.

Calabro, David, Ali Diakite, and Paul Naylor. “Standardizing West African Manuscript Metadata.” In Manuscripts and Arabic-Script Writing in Africa, edited by Charles Stewart and Ahmed Chaouki Binebine, 278–96. Cambridge and Alexandria, Egypt: The Islamic Manuscript Association in association with Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2023.

Chadwick, Jeffrey R. “Khirbet Beit Lei and the Lehi of Sampson: Old Testament and Book of Mormon Considerations and a Newly Identified Site for Biblical Lehi and En-hakkore.” Religious Educator 23, no. 3 (2022): 65–85.

Maeir, Aren M., and Jeffrey R. Chadwick. “The Blanche Garde Fortress at Tell es-Safi/Gath.” In Exploring Outremer, vol. 2: Studies in Crusader Archaeology in Honour of Adrian J. Boas, edited by Rabei G. Khamisy et al., 3–47. London: Routledge Press, 2023.

Combs, Jason R. “Historical Criticism of the Bible among the Latter-day Saints.” In Petrey, Crawford, and Eliason, The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, 202–16.

———. “Paul’s Metaphors of Salvation in Their Ancient Contexts.” Liahona, August 2023.

———. “Sabbath and Sunday in Ancient Christianity: Second through Sixth Centuries.” In Strathearn, Sacred Time, 123–48.

Dirkmaat, Gerrit J. “‘Too Long Trampled on to Be Celebrated’: The Latter-day Saint Protest of Independence Day 1845.” In Thomas and Smith, Religious Liberty and Latter-day Saints, 103–28.

Dirkmaat, Gerrit J., and Michael Hubbard MacKay. Let’s Talk about the Translation of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2023.

Rogers, Brent M., Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, and Andrew H. Hedges, eds., The Brigham Young Journals, vol. 1: April 1832–February 1846. General editors Ronald K. Esplin and Dean C. Jessee. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2023.

Dyer, W. Justin, AliCrandall, and Carl L. Hansen. “COVID-19 Stress, Religious Affiliation, and Mental Health Outcomes among Adolescents.” Journal of Adolescent Health 72, no. 6 (June 2023): 892–98.

Dyer, W. Justin et al. “Religion, Mental Health, and the Latter-day Saints: A Review of Literature, 2005–2022.” Religions 14, no. 6 (2023): 701.

Dyer, W. Justin, and Jenet J. Erickson. “Mental Health at Religious and Non-religious Universities: Examining the Role of Student Religiousness and Sexual/Gender Minority Identity.” Journal of Affective Disorders (2023).

See copublications with Michael A. Goodman.

Eaton, Robert, Steven V. Hunsaker, and Bonnie Moon. Improving Learning and Teaching in the College Classroom. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2023.

Ellison, Mark D. “Love One Another: The New Testament on Family Life.” Liahona, October 2023.

Erickson, Jenet J. “Finding the Divine Design in Our ‘Un-ideal’ Family.” Liahona, January 2023, 30–33.

See copublication with W. Justin Dyer.

Frederick, Nicholas J. “Could Brandon Sanderson Have Saved the Nephites?” Irreantum 20, no. 3 (2023): 135–45.

———. “Abinadi and the Witness of Jesus Christ.” In Alford, Pierce, and Woodger, Book of Mormon Insights, 93–102.

Fleek, Sherman L., and Robert C. Freeman.The Military Experience: 1838 to the Cold War. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2023.

Gardner, Barbara Morgan, and Olivia Osguthorpe. “Delivering the Family Proclamation: Insights from Former Relief Society General President Elaine L. Jack.” Religious Educator 24, no. 2 (2023): 161–73.

Moffat, Riley M., Barbara Morgan Gardner, and Fred E. Woods, “Prophecy Being Fulfilled: The Laie Hawaii Temple Visitors’ Center.” Latter-day Saints Historical Studies 23, no. 2 (Fall 2023): 93–113.

Grey, Matthew J. “‘Where May I Eat the Passover with My Disciples?’: Reassessing the Urban Setting, Furnished Room, and Dining Practices of Jesus’s Last Supper.” In Pushing Sacred Boundaries in Early Judaism and the Ancient Mediterranean: Essays in Honor of Jodi Magness, edited by Dennis Mizzi, Tine Rassalle, and Matthew J. Grey, 55–99. Leiden: Brill, 2023.

———. “The New Testament in Context: Galilean Village Life in the Time of Jesus.” Liahona, March 2023.

———. “The New Testament in Context: Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus.” Liahona, June 2023.

———. “The Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods.” In The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, edited by Taylor G. Petrey, Cory Crawford, and Eric A. Eliason, 101–14. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2023.

Magness, Jodi, Dennis Mizzi, Matthew J. Grey, Jocelyn Burney, Rangar Cline, Karen Britt, and Ra’anan Boustan. “Huqoq–2022: Preliminary Report.” Excavations and Surveys in Israel (Hadashot Arkheologiyot) 135 (2023).

Magness, Jodi, Shua Kisilevitz, Matthew J. Grey et al. “The Huqoq Synagogue Excavations: Report on the 2011–2018 Seasons.” In Ancient Synagogues Revealed, 1981–2022, edited by Lee I. Levine, Zeev Weiss, and Uzi Leibner, 48–65. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2023.

Mizzi, Dennis, Tine Rassalle, and Matthew J. Grey, eds. Pushing Sacred Boundaries in Early Judaism and the Ancient Mediterranean: Essays in Honor of Jodi Magness. Leiden: Brill, 2023.

Mizzi, Dennis, and Matthew J. Grey, “Rewriting the History of the Qumran Caves: Reviews of Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Marcello Fidanzio, ed. Khirbet Qumrân et Aïn Feshkha, vol. 4a: Qumran Cave 11Q: Archaeology and New Scroll Fragments,” with contributions by George Brooke, Sidnie White Crawford, and Lawrence Schiffman. Revue de Qumran 34, no. 2 (2022): 279–301.

Griffiths, Casey Paul. The Four Loves and the Latter-day Saints. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort Publishing, 2023.

———. “‘He Remembers Us’: History of the Church in Kiribati.” In Battlefields to Temple Grounds: Latter-day Saints in Guam and Micronesia, edited by R. Devan Jensen and Rosalind Meno Ram, 71–104. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Lā ‘ie, HI: Nāpela Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2023.

Griffiths, Casey P., and Mary Jane Woodger. Illinois: Guide for Travel and Study. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort Publishing, 2023.

———. Missouri: Guide for Travel and Study. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort Publishing, 2023.

———. New England: Guide for Travel and Study. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort Publishing, 2023.

Goodman, Michael A., and W. Justin Dyer. “The Family Proclamation: The Secular and Spiritual Context.” Religious Educator 24, no. 2 (2023): 107–33.

———. “How Does Religious Faith Impact Positive Youth Outcomes.” Religions 14, no. 7 (2023): 881.

Halverson, Jared M. “Protecting Our Strengths: Alma’s Counsel to Shiblon.” In Alford, Pierce, and Woodger, Book of Mormon Insights, 185–97.

———. “The Way, the Truth, and the Way to Truth: Harmony in Pursuit of Orthodoxy.” In Hilton, Frederick, Ogletree, and Pierce, I Glory in My Jesus, 269–92.

Heward, Maclene E. “‘Abiding by Its Precepts’: Using Precepts to Draw Closer to Jesus Christ.” In Alford, Pierce, and Woodger, Book of Mormon Insights, 55–65.

Hilton, John, III. “When You Feel Weak.” For the Strength of Youth, April 2023.

Hilton, John, III, Nicholas J. Frederick, Mark D. Ogletree, and Krystal V. L. Pierce, eds. I Glory in My Jesus: Understanding Christ in the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2023.

Hopkin, Shon D. “How New Testament Disciples Built on Old Testament Foundations.” Liahona, January 2023.

Howell, Scott L. “Preparing Missionaries in the Digital Age.” Liahona, January 2023.

Hingson, L., B. Anderson, B. Torruella, L. McRae, and Scott L. Howell. “Something Wicked This Way Comes! Applying Linguistic Structures within Ricoer’s Interpretation Theory.” Language & Communication 89 (2023): 78–91.

Howell, Scott L., Jesse Vincent, and Lauren Wilde. “‘How Beautiful Are the Feet’: The Use of Footnotes in General Conference Reports.” Religious Educator 24, no. 2 (2023): 14–33.

Howell, Scott L., M. C., Johnson, and J. C. Hansen. “The Innovative Use of Technological Tools (the ABCs and Ps) to Help Adult Learners Decrease Transactional Distance and Increase Learning Presence.” Adult Learning 34, no. 1 (2023).

Hull, Kerry. “Bear-Human Interactions: Archaeological and Ethnographic Investigations in North American Indigenous Cultures.” In Bear and Human, volume 3.1, edited by Oliver Grimm, 1163–84. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023.

———. “The Blood of God: Deicide in Ch’orti’ Myth and Ritual.” In Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica: Recent Findings and New Perspectives, edited by Rubén G. Mendoza and Linda Hansen. New York: Springer, 2023.

———. “The Core Covenant: An Everlasting Decree.” In Alford, Pierce, and Woodger, Book of Mormon Insights, 211–27.

———. “Indigenous Mesoamerican.” The Bible in Folklore Worldwide: A Handbook of Biblical Reception in Folklores of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, vol. 2. Edited by Eric Ziolkowski, 253–78. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.

Smoot, Stephen O., and Kerry Hull. “Book of Mormon ‘Trinitarianism’ and the Nature of Jesus Christ: Old and New World Contexts.” In Hilton, Frederick, Ogletree, and Pierce, I Glory in My Jesus, 187–209.

Huntsman, Eric D. “Bringing Forth a New Creation: The Sabbath in the Gospel of John.” In Strathearn, Sacred Time, 105–22.

———. “Christians in Corinth.” Liahona, September 2023.

———. “Jesus and the Gospels.” In Petrey, Crawford, and Eliason, The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, 409–23.

———. “Making Easter a Time to Remember the Savior.” Liahona, April 2023.

Huntsman, Eric D., and Trevan G. Hatch. Greater Love Hath No Man: A Latter-day Saint Guide to Celebrating the Easter Season. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2023.

Korth, Byran B. “Seership and World Conferences: The Divine Origin and Inception of the Family Proclamation.” Religious Educator 24, no. 2 (2023): 135–59.

———. “Staying by the Tree of Life.” In Alford, Pierce, and Woodger, Book of Mormon Insights, 15–26

Ludlow, Jared W. “Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.” In Petrey, Crawford, and Eliason, The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, 129–40.

———. “Enoch in the Tradition of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism).” In Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian Past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries, edited by Ariel Hessayon, Annette Yoshiko Reed, and Gabriele Boccaccini, 162–80. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023.

———. “The Jerusalem Council.” Liahona, July 2023.

———. “‘One Like the Son of Man Came with the Clouds of Heaven’: The Context and Influence of the Son of Man Prophecy in Daniel 7.” Religious Educator 24, no. 1 (2023): 73–87.

———. “The Use of Jewish Scripture in the New Testament,” in Petrey, Crawford, and Eliason, The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, 287–96.

Martin, Jan J. “The Resurrection and Recovering from Disillusionment.” Religious Educator 24, no. 1 (April 2023): 89–101.

———. “Use Boldness but Not Overbearance.” In Alford, Pierce, and Woodger, Book of Mormon Insights, 171–83.

———. “‘A Visible Figure of an Invisible Grace’: Sixteenth-Century Evangelical Religious Reformers and the Sabbath Day.” In Strathearn, Sacred Time, 171–92.

Matson, Joshua M. “Coming to Know Christ through the ‘I Am’ Statements in the Book of Mormon.” In Hilton, Frederick, Ogletree, and Pierce, I Glory in My Jesus, 37–61.

———. “Training Up a Child: Parenting in the Book of Mormon.” In Alford, Pierce, and Woodger, Book of Mormon Insights, 229–40.

Jan J. Martin, “‘A Visible Figure of an Invisible Grace’: Sixteenth Century Evangelical Religious Reformers and the Sabbath Day.” In Strathearn, Sacred Time, 171–92.

Muhlestein, Kerry. Finding Promised Blessings on the Covenant Path. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2023.

———. “A Priest, His Gods, and His Depiction: Creation, Execration, and the Roles, Texts, and Vignette of Hor of Karnak.” Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 39 (2023): 203–20.

Smoot, Stephen O., John Gee, Kerry Muhlestein, and John S. Thompson. A Guide to the Book of Abraham. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2023.

Ogletree, Mark D. “First Nephi: A Case Study for Following Prophets.” In Alford, Pierce, and Woodger, Book of Mormon Insights, 41–52.

Pierce, Krystal V. L. “Border Zones as a Liminal Mosaic: The Mediating Cultural-Brokers of Beth-Shean.” In Frontiers of Humanity and Beyond: Towards New Critical Understandings of Borders, edited by P. S. León, N. Vieira, and P. Carvalho, 279–93. Lisbon: University of Lisbon NOVA, 2023.

———. “The Brazen Serpent as a Symbol of Jesus Christ: A Dichotomy of Benevolence and Admonition.” In Hilton, Frederick, Ogletree, and Pierce, I Glory in My Jesus, 87–105.

See copublication with Kenneth L. Alford.

Sainsbury, Derek R. “‘We Have Not Been Allowed to Worship as We Please’: Nancy Naomi Tracy and the Denial of Latter-day Saint Religious Liberty.” In Thomas and Smith, Religious Liberty and Latter-day Saints, 129–64.

Sears, Joshua M. “‘Awesome’ Artistry: Ayummah Kannidgalot in Song of Songs 6:4, 10,” Jewish Bible Quarterly 51.2 (2023): 91–95.

———. “Josephus’s Retelling of the Patriarchs’ Polygyny in a Greco-Roman Context.” Journal of Ancient Judaism 14 (2023): 21–47.

———. “Learning from People of Other Faiths.” Religious Educator 24, no. 2 (2023): 51–71.

———. “The Sabbath in Rabbinic Judaism: Exploring the How of Keeping the Commandments.” In Strathearn, Sacred Time, 149–70.

Shannon, Thora Florence, and Avram R. Shannon. In Hilton, Frederick, Ogletree, and Pierce, I Glory in My Jesus, 145–68.

Bytheway, John, Al Carraway, Jody Moore, Hank Smith, and Anthony R. Sweat. Look unto Him: Finding the Love of Christ in Our Lives. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2022.

Thomas, John C., and Robert T. Smith, editors. Religious Liberty and Latter-day Saints: Historical and Global Perspectives. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2023.

Spencer, Joseph M. “Biblical Theology and the Latter-day Saint Tradition.” In The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, edited by Taylor G. Petrey, Cory Crawford, and Eric A. Eliason. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2023, 217–29.

———. “Of Souls, Symptoms, and Supplements: Becoming Enos.” In A Wrestle Before God: Reading Enos 1, edited by Adam S. Miller. N.p.: Proceedings of the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar, 2023, 77–94.

———. “On Christian Poverty.” In Are We Not All Beggars? Reading Mosiah 4:4–25, edited by Rosalynde Frandsen Welch and Diana Brown. N.p.: Proceedings of the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar, 2023, 1–29.

———. “On Things Still to Come: Whole-Book Readings of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 32 (2023): 116–37.

———. “Performative Prophecy.” In God Himself Shall Come Down: Reading Mosiah 15, edited by Andrew C. Smith and Joseph M. Spencer. N.p.: Proceedings of the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar, 2023, 1–26.

———. “The Things of a Better.” In As It Shall Be Given Thee: Reading Doctrine and Covenants 25, edited by Joseph M. Spencer and Rosalynde Frandsen Welch. N.p.: Proceedings of the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar, 2023, 135–64.

———. “Wandering in Strange Roads: Interpretations of Lehi’s Dream.” In Keogh, Spencer, and Champoux, Approaching the Tree, 1–24, 234–44.

———. “What Great Things.” In Be It Known: Book of Mormon Witnesses for Today’s Latter-day Saint. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2023, 41–45.

———. A Word in Season: Isaiah’s Reception in the Book of Mormon. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2023.

———. Review of Richard L. Saunders, The 1920 Edition of the Book of Mormon. Journal of Mormon History 49, no. 1 (2023): 146–48.

Smith, Andrew C., and Joseph M. Spencer, eds., God Himself Shall Come Down: Reading Mosiah 15. N.p.: Proceedings of the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar, 2023.

Keogh, Benjamin, Joseph M. Spencer, and Jennifer Champoux, eds. Approaching the Tree: Interpreting 1 Nephi 8. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2023.

———. “Making Easter a Time to Remember the Savior.” Liahona, April 2023, 8–16.

Spencer, Joseph M., and Rosalynde Frandsen Welch, eds., As It Shall Be Given Thee: Reading Doctrine and Covenants 25. N.p.: Proceedings of the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar, 2023.

Strathearn, Gaye. “Keeping the Sabbath Relevant in Some Late Second Temple Jewish Texts.” In Strathearn, Sacred Time, 59–81.

Strathearn, Gaye, ed., Sacred Time: The Sabbath as a Perpetual Covenant. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2023.

Strathearn, Gaye, and Frank F. Judd, Jr., “The Gospels: Four Testimonies of the Savior.” Liahona, January 2023.

Sweat, Anthony R.

See copublication with John Bytheway and Hank Smith.

Taeger, Stephan D. “According to Their Faith: Alma and Amulek Typify Faith in Overcoming Evil.” In Hilton, Frederick, Ogletree, and Pierce, I Glory in My Jesus, 125–43.

———. “Alive to the Other: Using Distance to Help Listeners Overcome Self-Deception.” Homiletic 48, no. 1 (2023): 48–64.

Watkins, Jordan T. “Orson Pratt and Emmeline Wells: Examples of Intellect and Faith.” Liahona, October 2023.

———. “Slavery, Early Latter-day Saint Constitutionalism, and the Limits of the Right to Petition.” Journal of Mormon History 49, no. 3 (Summer 2023): 47–102.

———. “Standing in the ‘Inner Circle of Their Feelings and Convictions’: George Ticknor Curtis and Religious Freedom.” In Thomas and Smith, Religious Liberty and Latter-day Saints, 165–220.

Wilcox, Brad. “Reasons for the Rules.” For the Strength of Youth, October 2023.

Wilcox, Brad, and Roger Wilcox. Blessed Are Ye: Using the Beatitudes to Understand Christ’s Atonement and Grace. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2023.

Wilcox, Brad, et al. “Book of Mormon Names: A Collection That Defies Expectations.” In Perspectives on Latter-day Saint Names and Naming, edited by Dallin D. Oaks, Paul Baltes, and Kent Minson. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Woodger, Mary Jane. “Commandment, Covenant, and Joy: The Development of Sabbath Day Counsel from Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” In Strathearn, Sacred Time, 243–65.

———. “Ezra Taft Benson: Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon.” In Alford, Pierce, and Woodger, Book of Mormon Insights, 1–12.

Woodger, Mary Jane, and Sarah Romney. “The London Missionary Society in the Cook Islands: Restricting Religious Freedom.” In Thomas and Smith, Religious Liberty and Latter-day Saints, 367–97.

See copublications with Kenneth L. Alford and Casey Paul Griffiths.

Woods, Fred E. Bright Lights in the Desert: The Latter-day Saints of Las Vegas. Las Vegas: University of Las Vegas, 2023. (With companion documentary film now on BYU TV)

———. “A Seed and a Swede: The Ivar Sandberg Story.” South Dakota History, 58, no. 2 (Summer 2023): 127–55.

———. A Swede and a Seed: The Ivar Sandburg Story. The documentary was produced by BYU Religious Education in cooperation with the Ensign Peak Foundation.

Woods, Fred E., and Cheryl Jensen, “Picketing Against Porn in Mesquite: Community Values vs. a ‘Vice’ Enterprise,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, December 2023.

Vance, Charles M., Mark Mendenhall, and Fred E. Woods. “Missionary Families: A Case Study of Expatriation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” In Research Handbook of Global Families: Implications for International Business, edited by Y. Kallane, H. Collins, and J. Mutter, 202–30. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023.

Woods, Fred E., and Tiffany Taylor Bowles, “The Nineteenth Century Gathering of Latter-day Saints,” Pioneer 69, no. 2 (2023): 3–9.

See copublication with Riley M. Moffat.

RETIRING

Roger G. Christensen retired on December 31.