Abide: Isaiah 1-12
Isaiah. Latter-day Saints have a special relationship to this Old Testament prophet. Not only do we recognize prophets across all dispensations, but his words were carried by Lehi’s family to the...
View ArticleAbide: Isaiah 13-14; 24–30; 35
Richard Bushman once told me that “panic precedes revelation.” Dr. Bushman was discussing the process by which Joseph Smith received the First Vision (recall the line from the Pearl of Great Price...
View ArticleAbide: Isaiah 40-49
Jesus promises in the Gospel of John that he will not leave us comfortless, but that He will come to us. He promises in Matthew that he will give us rest when we are weary and heavy-laden. In my...
View ArticleMaxwell Institute Podcast #149: Healing Our Racial Divide, with Derwin and...
Listen to Pastor Derwin Gray and Vicki Gray speak on Derwin’s new book, Healing Our Racial Divide: What the Bible Says, and the First Christians Knew, About Racial Reconciliation!Link to book: Amazon...
View ArticleAbide: Isaiah 58-66
Today we are joined by Dr. Joseph Spencer, a philosopher, theologian and Assistant Professor of Ancient Scripture here at Brigham Young University. Dr. Spencer is the editor of the Journal of Book of...
View ArticleMaxwell Institute Podcast #150: The Proclaim Peace Conference
In June 2022, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and the David O. McKay Center for Intercultural Understanding hosted a conference based upon Patrick Mason’s and David Pulsipher’s...
View ArticleAbide: Jeremiah Part I
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View ArticleAbide: Jeremiah and Lamentations Part II
In last week’s episode, we discussed how Jeremiah introduces ideas about seemingly disparate events, including the apocalyptic here-and-now and the hope of a better future for all of humankind. As we...
View ArticleMaxwell Institute Podcast #151: The Book of Mormon and Literature Studies,...
Latter-day Saints recognize the Book of Mormon as the “keystone of our religion,” a book that will bring a person closer to Christ than by any other book. How do non-Latter-day Saints read the Book of...
View ArticleAbide: Ezekiel 1–3; 33–34; 36–37; 47
We are blessed to live in a time of prophets. I define this in two ways. The first is that we are fortunate to live in a time where the priesthood has been restored and that the President of the...
View ArticleAbide: Daniel 1-6
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View ArticleMaxwell Institute Podcast #152: Andrew Jenson and Latter-day Saint History,...
Andrew Jenson undertook a lifelong quest to render the LDS historical record complete and comprehensive. As Assistant Church Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jenson...
View ArticleAbide: Hosea and Joel
Throughout the scriptures, the Lord and His prophets teach of covenants, the ability for us to bind ourselves to God through the power of the priesthood. Sometimes, though, we forget that we are also...
View ArticleAbide: Amos and Obadiah
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View ArticleAbide: Jonah and Micah
One of my favorite sermons in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is a sermon delivered by President Hugh B. Brown at BYU. It’s entitled God is the Gardner; I’m confident...
View ArticleAbide: Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah
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View ArticleMaxwell Institute Podcast #153: The Book of Mormon Art Catalog with Jennifer...
The Book of Mormon Art Catalog seeks to provide unprecedented access to visual imagery inspired by the Book of Mormon through a comprehensive, open access, and searchable digital database. In this...
View ArticleMaxwell Institute Podcast #154: The Necessity of God, with Adam S. Miller...
In Adam S. Miller’s lecture, “The Necessity of God: First person, Present Tense, Imperative Mood” Miller talks about Tim Farnsworth, a man who cannot stop walking from the fictional book The Unnamed....
View ArticleAbide: Haggai and Zechariah
One of the most interesting days of my life took place a few years ago when I co-conducted a tour of the Jordan River Temple in Utah for non-Latter-day Saint specialists in American religion. As we...
View ArticleMaxwell Institute Podcast #155: Nostalgia as Jewish Religious Practice, with...
In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City. Visitors...
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