Envisioning BYU: BYU Speeches
Envisioning BYU: BYU Speeches
Playlist by Envisioning BYU: BYU SpeechesFor the past 200 years, leaders have testified of the divinely inspired mission of Brigham Young University. In this podcast, you’ll find the speeches, statements, prayers, and prophesies that form th…31 clip(s) in playlist
The Academic Anableps | Bonnie Brinton | February 2009
Bonnie Brinton, a nationally recognized speech-language pathologist, was a professor in the BYU Department of Communication Disorders and dean of BYU Graduate Studies when she delivered this address. Brinton spoke to the blessing of working at BYU, where scholars “can use information gained through…
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Learning by Heart | Susan W. Tanner | August 2004
Susan W. Tanner was serving as the Young Women general president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was serving on the BYU Board of Trustees when she delivered this address. She encouraged the BYU campus community to learn by heart, a rarely discussed aspect of one of BYU’s aims…
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Lift Up Thine Eyes to the Mountains | Kristine Hansen | July 2001
Kristine Hansen was a professor of English and associate dean of Honors and General Education when she delivered this inspiring devotional on BYU’s aims. She reflected deeply and lucidly on each aim, which she compared to facets of a towering mountain, ultimately encouraging faculty, staff, and stu…
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“Teach Ye Diligently and My Grace Shall Attend You” | Bruce C. Hafen | August 1993
Bruce C. Hafen was provost of Brigham Young University when he delivered this address. He spoke first about BYU as a distinctive institution that has serious dual allegiances to a “red world” of academics and a “blue world” of the Church. He then explored the challenges and blessings “of BYU’s exci…
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“I Say unto You, Be One” | Boyd K. Packer| February 1991
Boyd K. Packer was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles when he delivered this address explaining how the BYU Board of Trustees makes decisions in unity. He also discussed threats on the horizon facing BYU and other religiously affiliated universities. Elder Packer spoke encouragingly of B…
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“A House of Faith” | Dallin H. Oaks | August 1977
Dallin H. Oaks was president of Brigham Young University when he delivered this seminal address to university employees. He discussed the vision of education set forth by the Lord and prophets in such revelations as the Olive Leaf, found in Doc- trine and Covenants 88, and President Spencer W. Kimb…
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A Certain Idea of BYU | Justin Collings | February 2022
Justin Collings, associate dean and professor in the BYU Law School, delivered this devotional address on February 1, 2022. Collings encouraged BYU students to seek holiness, learning, rev- elation, the best gifts, Christlike exemplars, and, above all, the Savior Himself. Collings’s devotional touc…
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Becoming BYU: An Inaugural Response | C. Shane Reese | September 2023
Becoming BYU means balancing scholarship and discipleship, building covenant communities, and having the courage to be different. C. Shane Reese, president of Brigham Young University, delivered this address at his inauguration on September 19, 2023. You can access the talk here.
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The Tie Between Science and Religion | Russell M. Nelson | April 2015
President Russell M. Nelson, an apostle at the time that he gave these touching remarks, recounted in this talk how the gospel had “provided the under-girding foundation” for his remarkable educational journey. His journey had taught him, among other things, that “all truth is part of the everlasti…
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An Education of the Whole Soul | C. Terry Warner | November 2008
C. Terry Warner was a BYU professor of philosophy when this devotional address was given on November 11, 2008. You can access the talk here.
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