BYU STUDIES Volume 50 2011 Issues 1-4

Volume 50, number 1, begins with Joseph Spencer’s philosophical look at what it means to be Mormon: what is the nature of the faith that binds a very diverse group of members? Next is an article about the importance of music in Christian worship, written by a Catholic scholar in England. Next, astronomer Hollis Johnson explains the life cycle of stars and notes that Joseph Smith’s revelation on stars (found in the Book of Moses) was decades ahead of the science that would confirm that stars...