After many years of service in BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Dr. John Gee has been moved to the university’s Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages. Gee joins his new department as William “Bill” Gay Research Professor. The William (Bill) Gay research endowment, which funds Dr. Gee’s position, remains in the […]

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I’m a religious person. I also consider myself to be an intellectual. As an intellectual—a humanities scholar in particular—I write and teach about human culture and engage in debate and research about a wide range of ideas and values. I’m familiar with philosophy. I consider myself rational. As a Latter-day Saint, I worship in church […]