"We've learned we're much better off to be friends with the academy rather than enemies," said Elder Jensen, an emeritus General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The panel discussion drew a standing-room-only crowd of more than 100 to a hall in the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. It was the last of four discussions hosted by Brian Birch, the first Marlin K. Jensen Scholar in Residence for Mormon Studies. Birch is a Utah Valley University professor teaching a course at the U. this semester titled, "The Intellectual Life of Mormonism."
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