Volume 61:2 (2022) Print

This issue begins by paying tribute to former Senator Orrin G. Hatch, who passed away on April 23, 2022. Shinji Takagi examines the monetary system in the Book of Mormon from the perspective on an economist. Conservationist Paul Alan Cox gives readers a background to the MX missile project proposed for Utah and Nevada in the 1980s, which The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opposed in an official statement. Researchers W. Justin Dyer, Michael A. Goodman, and David S. Wood surveyed more than 86,000 participants in grades 6, 8, 10, and 12 in an attempt to identify predictors of suicidality in Utah youth, paying special attention to the impact of religion on those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning. Stephen O. Smoot and Kerry Muhlestein theorize how the Book of Abraham could have been transmitted from his time into the Ptolemaic period, a journey of well over a millennium and a half. Noel B. Reynolds explores covenant language found in the Book of Mormon as compared to the language of other ancient books of scripture in the canon of the Church of Jesus Christ.