BYU Studies - 55:4

Introduction

From the Editor 55:4

John W. Welch

Page 4

Articles

A Reflection from an African Convert on Official Declaration 2

Khumbulani D. Mdletshe

Page 7

The Online Journal of George Q. Cannon

Richard Dilworth Rust

Page 31

The Brigham Young University Football Program and the Analytics Revolution

Nelson Chung

Page 47

Stephen H. Webb (1961–2016): Universal Scholar and Personal Friend

Alonzo L. Gaskill

Page 85

Empathy and the Atonement

Tyler Johnson

Page 105

Death Being Swallowed Up in Netzach in the Bible and the Book of Mormon

David J. Larsen

Page 123

Socrates’ Mission

Daniel W. Graham

Page 141

Essays

The Bass Coupler

Marilyn Nelson Nielson

Page 99

The Time It Takes to Age

Rebecca Smylie

Page 135

Poetry

Heron Song

Elizabeth Garcia

Page 46

Gathering

Vivian M. Adams

Page 84

Reviews

Transmitting Religion: A Look at Vern L. Bengtson’s Families and Faith: How Religion Is Passed Down across Generations

Loren D. Marks

Page 160

Exploring the Explanatory Power of Semitic and Egyptian in Uto-Aztecan

Dirk Elzinga

Page 172

A Faded Legacy: Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women’s Activism, 1872–1959

Lisa Olsen Tait

Page 177

Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings

Camille S. Williams

Page 183

An 1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written in the Deseret Alphabet

Brian D. Stubbs

Page 189

Chicano while Mormon: Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith

Jorge Iber

Page 193

The Civil War Years in Utah: The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight

Kenneth L. Alford

Page 197

Sublime Physick

Darlene Young

Page 201

Book Notices

Psalms of Nauvoo: Early Mormon Poetry

Gerrit van Dyk

Page 204

A Missionary's Story: The Letters and Journals of Adolf Haag, Mormon Missionary to Switzerland and Palestine, 1892

Bridget Edwards

Page 205

First Principles and Ordinances: The Fourth Article of Faith in Light of the Temple

Eric Samuelsen

Page 206

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