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MIPodcast #90—Editing and illuminating the Book of Mormon, with Grant Hardy...
We’re extremely excited that the Maxwell Institute Study Edition of the Book of Mormon has finally been published. We see it as a watershed moment in the history of Latter-day Saint scripture...
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MIConversations #8—Thomas Wirthlin McConkie, “The spiritual journey”
Maxwell Institute Conversations are special episodes of the Maxwell Institute Podcast, hosted by Terryl Givens and created in collaboration with Faith Matters Foundation. Audio and video available....
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MIPodcast #91—The contested history of religious freedom, with Tisa Wenger
In this episode, historian Tisa Wenger of Yale University joins us to talk about religious freedom—the legal right to worship according to the dictates of a person’s own conscience. An important ideal...
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#1- Terryl and Fiona Givens, on faith, doubt, and The God Who Weeps [MIPodcast]
This first episode of the Maxwell Institute Podcast features Fiona and Terryl Givens, authors of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life. We talk briefly about the book—subjects like the...
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#2- George Handley on Mormonism and the environment [MIPodcast]
“The body is the cup in which to drink the world.” —George Handley George Handley‘s Home Waters is a deeply moving account of his personal relationships with God, family, and the environment. The BYU...
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#3- James Goldberg on The Five Books of Jesus [MIPodcast]
“Here is something true: The imagination needs to be strong as the heart, sometimes stronger, because while to heart sustains the body, the imagination sustains the soul.“ —James Goldberg, The Five...
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#4- Myron Penner on The End of Apologetics [MIPodcast]
This episode of the Maxwell Institute Podcast focuses on the topic of apologetics, or defending the faith. Myron Bradley Penner, an Anglican priest from Canada, discusses his new book, The End of...
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#5- Samuel Brown on In Heaven as It Is on Earth and “Believing Adoption”...
In this episode of the Maxwell Institute Podcast, physician and historian Samuel M. Brown discusses his book, In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death (New York:...
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#6- Adam Miller discusses Letters to a Young Mormon [MIPodcast]
In this episode of the Maxwell Institute Podcast, Adam S. Miller discusses his latest book Letters to a Young Mormon. Miller spends his days teaching philosophy to college students in Texas, but the...
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#7- Terryl Givens on the Book of Mormon [MIPodcast]
New episodes of the Maxwell Institute Podcast are on the way. In the meantime, this episode features the recording of Terryl L. Givens’s 2009 Laura F. Willes Book of Mormon lecture, “Joseph Smith’s...
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#8- Molly Worthen on faith and the intellect in American Evangelicalism...
In this episode of the Maxwell Institute Podcast, historian Molly Worthen joins us to discuss her new book Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism. Evangelical Christians...
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#9- John Turner on Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet [MIPodcast]
Photo courtesy of AggieBluePrint Brigham Young was a complex man. He inspired thousands of Latter-day Saints to make an arduous trek to the west after Joseph Smith was murdered, but he could also be...
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#10- Spencer, Bokovoy, Miller: Three Mormon scholars discuss the relevance of...
Please help the MIPodcast grow by rating and reviewing it in iTunes! (Go here, click “View in iTunes,” click “Ratings and Reviews,” and then click “Write a Review.”) This episode features three...
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#11- Bernard McGinn on Aquinas’s Summa theologiae [MIPodcast]
Bernard McGinn recently completed the biography of one of the most influential theological works in Christian history: Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae, and he joins us in this episode of the Maxwell...
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#12- Summer Seminar scholars discuss “The History of the Mormon Family”...
Each summer for the past sixteen years, lucky groups of graduate students have been assembled to study Mormon history, theology, and culture. The Summer Seminar on Mormon Culture is an intense...
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#13- What’s the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, featuring David Gordon White...
Most people think of yoga as a relaxing way to exercise without realizing it is rooted in an ancient drive for salvation from the suffering of physical embodiment. The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali has...
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#14- Standing Apart, or Reconsidering the “Great Apostasy,” featuring Miranda...
Miranda Wilcox and John Young recently published one of the most arresting books in Mormon studies ever compiled. It’s called Standing Apart. In the book, a group of Latter-day Saint scholars examine...
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#15- Reading the Bible critically and religiously, with Marc Brettler...
Does academic study of the Bible undermine its value or diminish the religious messages it contains? In 2012, three scholars—a Jew, a Protestant, and a Catholic—came together at the intersection of...
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#16- Peter Enns on reading the Bible critically and religiously [MIPodcast]
Dr. Peter Enns is a Christian and scholar of the Bible who wants the Bible to be interpreted for what it actually seems to be (a collection of ancient texts with a variety of perspectives about how...
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#17- The life of Genesis, with Ronald Hendel [MIPodcast]
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” It’s one of the most easily recognizable opening lines from any literary work, the Book of Genesis, a book that has been interpreted in...
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