A single volume cannot accurately measure the influence of a beloved colleague, but this one nevertheless stands as modest evidence of Robert L. Millet's prodigious impact over a career that spanned nearly four decades. His retirement provided an opportunity to gather some of those who count him as a mentor, colleague, and friend. They offer this collection of essays as a monument to his remarkable career as an administrator, teacher, and writer. That these pieces range across topics, disciplines, and even religious traditions seems especially appropriate given Millet's own broad reach.
His students number in the thousands, his readers number perhaps ten times that number, and his friend in academia, the Church Educational System, and around the globe in may faiths would be difficult to number indeed. Both in terms of his staggering literary production and in his broad collection of colleagues, it is not an overstatement to place Bob Millet among the most influential Latter-day Saint voices of the past quarter century.
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J. Spencer Fluhman
J. Spencer Fluhman is an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, where he teaches American religious history. He graduated summa cum laude from BYU and received masters and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has appeared in the
New York Times, Journal of Religion and Society, Journal of Mormon History, BYU Studies Quarterly, and
Mormon Historical Studies. He is editor of the
Mormon Studies Review. His book,
“A Peculiar People”: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2012 and won the Mormon History Association’s “Best First Book Award” in 2013.
Brent L. Top
Brent L. Top is dean of Religious Education and former chair of Church history and doctrine at BYU. Brother Top has written numerous books, including coauthoring LDS Beliefs: A Doctrinal Reference, and is a popular speaker at BYU Education Week. He served as mission president of the Illinois Peoria Mission and is currently serving as a stake president. Brent and his wife, Wendy, are the parents of four children and live in Pleasant Grove, Utah.
