Mormon Oratory
Resources for the Study of LDS Speaking
Gideon O. Burton
Brigham Young University
Introduction / Overview
Gideon Burton, Mormon Oratory: An Introduction
Gideon Burton, Mormon Oratory Bibliography
Gideon Burton (and students), Mormon Speaking Anthology (a proposed table of contents for an anthology that would represent the wide range of Mormon public speaking)
General Resources
BYU Devotionals and Forums (Speeches website)
Find a Talk at BYU Broadcasting (archive of speeches from various BYU conferences and events, and some LDS church events)
General Conference Proceedings (text and some audio, some video)
Podcasts of Mormon Speeches
and Public Events (search "Mormon" or "LDS" using iTunes)
Major Printed Collections
of Mormon Speeches
Mormon Rhetorics
Mormon Periodicals
Speeches at the Mormon Literature Database (references and some full text)
Eugene England - "Going to Conference"
Studies on Mormon Speaking
List of Top LDS Speeches - Juan Henderson
Speeches in the Book of Mormon
- Mosiah 2-4 (King Benjamin)
- Mosiah 15-16 (Abinadi)
- Alma 34 (Amulek)
- Helaman 13-15 (Samuel)
- 3 Nephi 11-17 (Christ)
- Alma 5,7,9,12,32,33,40,41 (Alma)
19th Century Speeches online
- See the complete Journal of Discourses now online at BYU Online Collections or here.
- Joseph Smith, “The King Follett Sermon” See also Sermons by Joseph Smith
- Sidney Rigdon, Fourth of July Speech, 1838
- Brigham Young, “Recreation, and the Proper Use of It”
- Brigham Young, Comprehensiveness of True Religion— The Saints But Stewards
- Levi Edgar Young, “[Gen. Conf. Address, April 1921]”
- Moses Thatcher, Out of the Best Books
Background Info | Fourth of July Speech, 1838
20th Century Speeches
- Neal A. Maxwell, “Plow in Hope” (April 2001)
- Gideon Burton, “Twentieth-Century Mormon Eloquence: A Stylistic Analysis of Two Sermons by Neal A. Maxwell ”
- Jeffrey R. Holland, “Of Souls, Symbols, and Sacraments”Audio version | Print version