Conference Books — Spring 2010

This is my fifth compilation of the books and other media mentioned or referenced each General Conference. And this time I discovered something I didn’t expect, although it makes sense: Even General Authorities cite Wikipedia.

It’s possible that this has happened before and I’ve simply missed it. Or, if I haven’t, then perhaps this is the first time. The reference is found in Elder D. Todd Christofferson’s talk The Blessing of Scripture. In it, one of the citations for information on William Tyndale is the Wikipedia article on Tyndale (see the last item in the bibliography below. I’m sure that General Authorities have cited the LDS Internet sites before. This is the first I’ve noticed a citation to the rest of the Internet.

Other than that, this conference simply had fewer references to outside sources than last Fall, apparently because fewer periodicals were referenced. In the Fall, Conference talks cited a total of 19 different periodical articles. This conference there were 4. That accounts for most of the drop from 45 items cited last Fall to 33 this conference.

Anyway, here are the books and other outside sources mentioned or citied in the most recent General Conference:

Books

• Bartlett, John, comp. Familiar Quotations, 14th ed. (1968).
  • Jeffrey R. Holland, Place No More for the Enemy of My Soul, Saturday Afternoon Session
  • Thomas S. Monson, Preparation Brings Blessings, Priesthood Session
• Boom, Corrie ten, Tramp for the Lord
  , (1974).
  • Keith B. McMullin, Our Path of Duty, Saturday Morning Session
• Bryant, William Cullen, ed., The Family Library Of Poetry And Song, (1870).
  • Bradley D. Foster, Mother Told Me, Sunday Afternoon Session
• Cook, Clarence, Poems, (1902).
  • Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “You Are My Hands”, Sunday Morning Session
• Daniell, David, The Bible in English, (2003).
  • D. Todd Christofferson, The Blessing of Scripture, Saturday Afternoon Session
• Fairlie, Henry, The Seven Deadly Sins Today, (1978).
  • Jeffrey R. Holland, Place No More for the Enemy of My Soul, Saturday Afternoon Session
• Farrar, Frederic W., The Life of Lives, Further Studies in the Life of Christ, (1900).
  • Quentin L. Cook, We Follow Jesus Christ, Sunday Morning Session
• Foxe, John, The New Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, (1997).
  • D. Todd Christofferson, The Blessing of Scripture, Saturday Afternoon Session
• Goodall, John S., The Ballooning Adventures of Paddy Pork, (1969).
  • Bradley D. Foster, Mother Told Me, Sunday Afternoon Session
• Hartshorn, Leon R., comp. Remarkable Stories from the Lives of Latter-day Saint Women, 2 vols. (1973-1975).
  • Neil L. Andersen, Tell Me the Stories of Jesus, Sunday Afternoon Session
• Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman, Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible, (1904).
  • Neil L. Andersen, Tell Me the Stories of Jesus, Sunday Afternoon Session
• Juvenal, The Satires,.
  • Jeffrey R. Holland, Place No More for the Enemy of My Soul, Saturday Afternoon Session
• Keyes, Ralph, The Quote Verifier, (2006).
  • M. Russell Ballard, Mothers and Daughters, Saturday Morning Session
• Madsen, Carol Cornwall, Journey to Zion: Voices from the Mormon Trail, (1997).
  • Wilford W. Andersen, The Rock of Our Redeemer, Saturday Morning Session
• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed. (2003).
  • Ann M. Dibb, Be of a Good Courage, General Young Women Meeting
• Pratt, Parley P., Key to the Science of the Theology, 10th ed. (1965).
  • Mary N. Cook, Never, Never, Never Give Up!, General Young Women Meeting
• Read, Lenet Hadley, How We Got the Bible, (1985).
  • D. Todd Christofferson, The Blessing of Scripture, Saturday Afternoon Session
• Smith, Joseph, History of the Church, ed. B. H. Roberts, 7 vols. 1902-1932.
  • Bruce A. Carlson, When the Lord Commands, Saturday Afternoon Session
  • Donald L. Hallstrom, Turn to the Lord, Sunday Morning Session
• Smith, Joseph F., , 5th ed. (1939).
  • Boyd K. Packer, The Power of the Priesthood, Saturday Morning Session
  • Keith B. McMullin, Our Path of Duty, Saturday Morning Session
• Stevenson, Robert Louis, Requiem, in An Anthology Of Modern Verse, A. Methuen ed. (1921).
  • Thomas S. Monson, He Is Risen!, Sunday Morning Session
• Talmage, James E., Jesus the Christ, 3rd ed. (1916).
  • Quentin L. Cook, We Follow Jesus Christ, Sunday Morning Session
  • Thomas S. Monson, He Is Risen!, Sunday Morning Session
• Whittier, John Greenleaf, The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, (1876).
  • Robert D. Hales, Our Duty to God: The Mission of Parents and Leaders to the Rising Generation, Sunday Afternoon Session
• Widtsoe, John A., Discourses of Brigham Young, (1954).
  • Dallin H. Oaks, Healing the Sick, Priesthood Session
• Wilcox, S. Michael, Fire in the Bones: William Tyndale–Martyr, Father of the English Bible, (2004).
  • D. Todd Christofferson, The Blessing of Scripture, Saturday Afternoon Session
• U.S. Religious Landscape Survey: Religious Beliefs and Practices: Diverse and Politically Relevant, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, (June 2009).
  • Dallin H. Oaks, Healing the Sick, Priesthood Session

Periodicals

• Blow, Steve, Sometimes, ‘Miracles Are Just That’, in Dallas Morning News (Jan 30, 2000, 31A).
  • Dallin H. Oaks, Healing the Sick, Priesthood Session
• De Groote, Michael, Questioning the Alternative Jesus, Deseret News, Nov. 26, 2009.
  • D. Todd Christofferson, The Blessing of Scripture, Saturday Afternoon Session
• Lehrer, Jonah, Don’t! The Secret of Self Control, in New Yorker (May 18, 2009).
  • Dallin H. Oaks, Healing the Sick, Priesthood Session
• “What Youth Need”, in Church News (Mar. 6, 2010).
  • Ann M. Dibb, Be of a Good Courage, General Young Women Meeting

Other

• Bramley, Frank, A Hopeless Dawn, (1888).
  • Thomas S. Monson, He Is Risen!, Sunday Morning Session
• Churchill, Winston, “Never Give in”, Speech, Harrow School, London, England, (Oct. 29, 1941).
  • Mary N. Cook, Never, Never, Never Give Up!, General Young Women Meeting
• Snow, Eliza R., Address to Lehi Ward Relief Society, Oct. 27, 1869 Lehi Ward, Alpine (Utah) Stake, in Relief Society, Minute Book, 1869-1879, Church History Library, Salt Lake city, 26-27.
  • Julie B. Beck, “And upon the Handmaids in Those Days Will I Pour Out My Spirit, Saturday Morning Session
• Wikipedia, William Tyndale, (Accessed February 28, 2010).
  • D. Todd Christofferson, The Blessing of Scripture, Saturday Afternoon Session

You can see the previous compilations of books cited in General conference here:
October 2009
April 2009
October 2008
April 2008