Latter-day Eloquence

Richard Benjamin Crosby is a professor of English at Brigham Young University. He is the author of American Kairos: Washington National Cathedral and the New Civil Religion. Isaac James Richards is a University Graduate Fellowship recipient at Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches public speaking.

• Table of Contents Foreword Gideon O. Burton Introduction Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards The Nineteenth Century "Where Is Your Confidence in God?": Lucy Mack Smith's Unexpected Eloquence (1831) Amy D. Williams and Thomas B. Williams The Vine and the Fig Tree: A Pacifist Polarity in Sidney Rigdon's Fourth of July Oration (1838) Isaac James Richards The Rhetorical Repercussions of Joseph Smith's "King Follett Sermon" (1844) William V. Smith "Slavery Is a Great Evil": Orson Pratt's Antislavery Speech (1852) Jordan T. Watkins and W. Paul Reeve Unsettling Salvation: Land Inheritance and Racial Improvement in Orson Hyde's "Common Salvation" (1853) Kyle S. Bond and Romeo García Restoration, Violence, Coloniality: Decolonizing The Church-Settler Instruction-Curriculum in Brigham Young's "Our Indian Relations—How to Deal With Them" (1866) Kyle S. Bond and Romeo García "Silence Is No Longer a Virtue": Eliza R. Snow and the Great Indignation Meeting (1870) Megan Armknecht "Miltons and Shakespeares of Our Own": Orson F. Whitney's "Home Literature" (1888) Gideon Burton Rhetorical Questions, Reunification, and Prophetic Authority in Wilford Woodruff's Cache Stake Address on the Manifesto (1891) Joshua M. Matson "Western Women Authors and Journalists": Emmeline B. Wells's Rhetoric of Religious Camouflage (1893) Rachel Helps "A Phase Of Woman's Education": Leah Dunford Widtsoe's Balance Between Mormon and American Utopias (1896) El Call and Jaclyn Foster Lucretia Heywood Kimball's Speech at the Dedication of the Church of Christ, Scientist, Salt Lake City (1898) Michael Hamilton "The Methods and Motives of Science": James E. Talmage's Lecture in the Logan Temple (1898) David L. Clark The Twentieth Century "With Entire Candor": Reed Smoot's Speech Before the U.S. Senate (1907) Carter Charles A Long-Lasting Latitude and Longitude: President J. Reuben Clark's "The Charted Course of the Church in Education" (1938) William G. Perez A Heavenly Logic for Mundane Living in Stephen L. Richards's "Where is Wisdom?" Commencement Address (1948) Maclane E. Heward Fragmented Feminism in Belle Spafford's "International Women" (1955) Mallory Hutchings-Tryon Moral Mandates in the Public Square: Lenore Romne's Speech to the Kiwanis Club of Danville, Illinois (1968) G. Breck Wightman and Whitney Fitzgerald Stephen R. Covey's Liberal Protestant Exhortation in "An Educated Conscience" (1975) Matthew Bowman Spiritual Learning and Academic Excellence: Spencer W. Kimball and "The Second Century of Brigham Young University" (1975) Jared W. Ludlow Narrative Theology in Truman G. Madsen's "The First Vision and its Aftermath" (1978) Steven C. Harper Art and Orthodoxy: Wayne Booth's Sardonic "Art and the Church" (1980) Nathan D. Wood Aristotelian Truth-Telling in Orson Scott Card's "Nobody Here but Us Orcs: How a Mormon Writer Deals with the Problem of Good and Evil" (1980) Timothy Gervais Urging an Equal Rights Revolution: Byron Marchant's Speech Before the Alice Louis Reynolds Foundation (1982) S. Spencer Wells and Isaac Barnes May "Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift": Hugh Nibley Challenges the Saints (1983) Joseph M. Spencer "From Housewife to Heretic" and Beyond: Sonia Johnson's Storytelling (1983) Christine Talbot Spiritual Epistemology and the Rhetoric of Witness in Bruce R. McConkie's "The Purifying Power of Gethsemane" (1985) Tyler J. Andersen A Provocative Challenge to Conventional Thinking: Eugene England's "Why The Church Is More True Than the Gospel" (1985) Robert A. Rees "Weaned from Milk": Agency and Authority in Francine Bennion's "A Latter-day Saint Theology of Suffering" (1986) Eliza Wells The Wager of Religious Agnosticism: Levi S. Peterson's "A Christian by Yearning" (1988) John Durham Peters "Learning to Believe": Richard Bushman on "To Be Learned Is Good, If . . ." (1991) J.B. Haws The Power of the Ordinary: "Martha's Diary and Mine" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1991) Colleen McDannell "Mercy Without End": Lavina Fielding Anderson's Devotion in Dissent (1993) Kristine Haglund Disciplined Eloquence: A Stylistic Analysis of Neal A. Maxwell's "Swallowed Up in the Will of the Father" (1995) David Stock Broadcast Live: The Performative Construction of Public Leadership in the 1998 Hinckley Larry King Live Interview Benjamin Peters The Twenty-First Century Speaking the Unspoken: "Healing from Sexual Abuse" by Chieko Okazaki (2002) Meridith Reed "I Think He Did a Little Too Much LDS": The Conversion Narrative of Arthur Kane in New York Doll (2005) Scott Haden Church First Things First: Judge Thomas Griffith's "Very Root of Christian Doctrine" (2006) J. Spencer Fluhman Answering the Mormon Question: A Rhetorical Analysis of Mitt Romney's "Faith in America" Speech (2007) David Charles Gore The Innovative Path to Eternal Bliss: Clayton M. Christensen's "How Will You Measure Your Life?" (2010) W. Michael Hutchings "Righteous Dominion and Compassion for the Earth": Elder Marcus B. Nash's Case for Dominion as a Principle of Responsibility (2013) Addison Graham "Come, Join with Us": Dieter F. Uchtdorf's Invitation to Latter-day Saints in Faith Crisis (2013) Patrick Q. Mason "No More Shame": Mental as Medical in Jeffrey R. Holland's "Like a Broken Vessel" (2013) Heather J. Stone The Choice We Can Make: Elizabeth Smart's "My Story" (2014) Ashlee Hatch Our Mormon Stories: John Dehlin's Prepared Remarks Following His Disciplinary Hearing (2015) Logan Packer Rethinking Knowledge and Leadership to Instill Hope: "The Power of Not Knowing" by Liz Wiseman (2016) Travis P. Searle The Sacredness of Learning in Eva Witesman's "Women and Education" (2017) Michelle Graabek Steadfast and Eloquent: Jeff Flake Defies the New Normal in "Protecting Our Democracy" (2017) Tyler Duane Gardner "Intersections of Religious, Race, and Immigrant Rhetoric in Carolina Núñez's BYU Devotional" (2018) Brittany Romanello Darius Gray's Forward-Looking Christian Discipleship: "A 54-Year Journey Toward Racial Equality in the Mormon Church" (2018) Joseph R. Stuart Three-Part Harmony: Joanna Brooks's Tribute "In Honor of Carol Lynn Pearson" (2019) Jim Richards The Hymn That Haunts: Tara Westover's "The Un-Instagramable Self" (2019) Richard Benjamin Crosby "So Much to Celebrate?" LGBTQ Identities in Matt Easton's Convocation Address (2019) Taylor G. Petrey "Sharpen My Shovel": Melissa Inouye's "Making Zion" as a Personal Apologetics of Digging In (2019) Catie Nielson Mortality and the Social Practice of Scholarship: Kate Holbrook's "The Weight of Legacy" (2020) Rosalynde Welch and Sophia Snyder Conclusion Latter-day Saint Rhetoric and Mythic Return: Time, Place, and Memory in the Bicentennial Proclamation Isaac James Richards and Richard Benjamin Crosby