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"A Grateful Heart" subject for Oct. 2 BYU devotional

Ray Huntington, a member of the Religious Education faculty at Brigham Young University, will give an address titled “A Grateful Heart” during a campus devotional Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 11:05 a.m. in the Marriott Center.

The devotional will be broadcast live on the BYU Broadcasting channels and online at byutv.org. Rebroadcast and archive information will be available at byub.org/devotionals or speeches.byu.edu.

Huntington has done extensive research on the West Bank and Gaza Palestinian family life. He has taught at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies on three separate occasions and has traveled throughout the Middle East.

He received his doctorate in sociology of the Middle East at BYU. His second area of study is the history of the English Bible, dealing specifically with 16th and 17th century England.

For more information, contact Ray Huntington, (801) 422-3125, ray_huntington@byu.edu.

Writer: Hwa Lee

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