Stephen Taysom put together a collection of essays in a new book
titled Dimensions of Faith: A Mormon Studies Reader. Â Topics
include biographies, theory, experience, memory, and
media/literature with authors such as Newell Bringhurst, Larry
Foster, and Jonathan Stapley (to name a few.) Many of us are
familiar with Wilford Woodruff’s vision of the Founding Fathers
in the St. George Temple. Â Brian Stuy gives some interesting
background on this story. Â Just after the temple was dedicated
in 1877, apostle and temple president Wilford Woodruff had a
dream on two successive nights. Â The signers of the Declaration
of Independence said to Woodruff, You have had the use of the
Endowment House for a number of years, and yet nothing has ever
been done for us. Â We laid the foundation of the government you
now enjoy, and we never apostatized from it, but we remained
true to it and were faithful to God. Stuy notes that Woodruff
had been reading a book titled Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men
and Women of Europe and Ame