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Unlike most talks given at BYU by church leaders, the landmark response of a Latter-day Saint apostle to the murderous spree of forgings and bombings by Mark Hofmann recently featured in “Murder Among the Mormons” can’t be found on speeches.byu.edu.
There’s a simple reason for that, and it has nothing to do covering up church history. In fact in his talk at BYU, then-Elder Dallin H. Oaks issued a scathing reprimand to a major news organization that spent a year insisting the church was covering up a document until it was proved that the document never existed. In fact, and this is mind-boggling, it was Hofmann himself that had deceived the newspaper into believing the document was real and in possession of the church.
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Sister Jean B. Bingham, Relief Society general president, studies Gospel Literacy program materials with a group of women in Sierra Leone, June 2019. (Church Newsroom)
Relief Society General President Jean Bingham invited world leaders to increase women’s access to education in a speech on International Women’s Day.
Bingham was the keynote speaker of the virtual International Women-in-Diplomacy Day symposium, sponsored by the honorary consul of the Republic of Senegal.
In her digital address, she asked those with the power to enact change to use their position to advocate for women’s education opportunities.
“I extend an invitation to each of us to leverage the advantages we enjoy in order to create more opportunities for our sisters around the world,” Bingham said. “As leaders, we are in a unique position to influence those who create the policies that will open the doors to education for women and girls.”
As the keynote speaker at the fifth annual International Women-in-Diplomacy Day symposium, Sister Bingham said that “education lifts a person’s vision, broadens their horizons and strengthens their ab