Episode 71: Joseph Merrill, Truth Seeker (Casey Griffiths)

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🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

As we seek truth, we are asked to harmonize seeming paradoxes: balance the mind and the heart; learn by study and faith; be in the world but not of the world. How do we do this? In this episode, Dr. Casey Griffiths introduces us to the fascinating life of a scientist, educator, and apostle who exemplified this approach—Joseph F. Merrill—and why his work continues to influence Church members today.

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0:00.0	There are certain individuals that everybody seems to know by name and know what they've
0:05.3	done on the world stage to garner their public popularity or influence.
0:10.1	Names like Charles Darwiner and Frank, Thomas Edison or Harriet Beecher Stowe.
0:16.2	Some people are so well known they only need one name to recognize them.
0:20.6	Oprah, Einstein, Plato, Cleopatra.
0:25.7	But right now I don't want to talk about them.
0:28.8	I'm a little more interested in the people who have had broad impact on our everyday
0:33.5	lives, but we have no idea who they really are.
0:37.2	For example, have you ever heard of Niels Bolin?
0:40.4	I didn't think so.
0:43.2	But he did something that has literally saved countless lives in impacts our life almost
0:49.3	daily.
0:50.6	He invented the three point seatbelt.
0:54.4	There are many more people just like him who have had huge impact on society, but they
0:59.9	lack public notoriety.
1:03.2	One person you should likely add to that list if you're a lot of a saint is the name Joseph
1:07.5	F. Merrill.
1:08.9	Literally, he is influencing your life right now.
1:12.8	Since this podcast is being produced by a religious education at Brigham Young University,
1:17.4	as the commissioner of church education, Joseph Merrill was the one who helped save BYU
1:23.9	from being closed by the church and transferred over to state ownership.
1:29.7	He saw the benefit for the church to have a university.
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