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#54—The Sin of Certainty, with Peter Enns [MIPodcast]
Perhaps you’ve experienced moments of doubt about your religious faith. Or maybe you’re one of the people who find doubt to be a more frequent companion in your spiritual life. Either way, doubt can be...
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#55—American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, with Thomas W....
As the twentieth century dawned, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remained at odds with the United States, a country that had provided fertile soil for the growth of their faith, but...
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#56—Mormons and American politics, with David E. Campbell and J. Quin Monson...
The deep red state of Utah is surprising pundits as the 2016 presidential election approaches. For the first time in over fifty years, the state is poised to vote for someone other than the Republican...
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#57—One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly, with Ashley Mae Hoiland [MIPodcast]
One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly is the latest book in the Maxwell Institute’s Living Faith series. In this episode, author Ashley Mae Hoiland joins Blair Hodges, co-editor of the series, to talk...
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#58—Some challenges of religious studies, with Thomas Tweed [MIPodcast]
Journal of the American Academy of Religion People are usually more comfortable talking about their strengths rather than their weaknesses. It’s human nature. The same can be said about religious...
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#59—Village atheists, with Leigh Eric Schmidt [MIPodcast]
Are you familiar with the New Atheists? The late Christopher Hitchens wrote biting books about religion as “poison,” Richard Dawkins champions a sort of scientism as a replacement for faith, and people...
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#60—The life of the Lotus Sutra, with Donald S. Lopez, Jr. [MIPodcast]
When the Lotus Sutra arrived in Boston in 1844 the few people who could read it were intrigued by its parables that reminded them of the Bible. For these westerners, the Lotus was like a gateway into a...
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#61—Women at the Latter-day Saint pulpit, with Jennifer Reeder and Kate...
Here’s a famous passage from First Corinthians: “Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted into them to speak. But they are commanded to be under obedience, as also say the...
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#62—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and “A House Full of Females” [MIPodcast]
In the late nineteenth century, a newspaper written and published by women and for women sprung up in what most Americans thought was the unlikeliest of locations: Utah, the home of the Mormons. Along...
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#63—”Works of Love in a World of Violence,” with Deidre Green [MIPodcast]
Christians are commanded in scripture to love one another, to turn the other cheek and bless those who curse them. How can Christians meet these obligations when someone acts an abusive or even violent...
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#64—Heresy, opposition, and becoming gods, with Adam J. Powell [MIPodcast]
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015 Joseph Smith, the founding prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at the hands of an angry mob in June of 1844. Shortly before his...
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#65—Womanist theology and Mormonism, with Janan Graham-Russell [MIPodcast]
When you think about your religious beliefs, your theology, how much consideration have you given to your race? How has the color of your skin affected your understanding of God, of Jesus Christ, or of...
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#66—Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation, with Craig Harline...
What was Martin Luther trying to accomplish when he nailed his ninety-five theses to the Wittenburg church door? Would you believe he didn’t intend to start a new religious movement at all? Down the...
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#67—How the Reformation rebelled against Luther, with Brad S. Gregory...
When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October of 1517 he had no intention of starting a revolution. But he became a rebel and the Reformation took off. And then the Reformation rebelled against...
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#68—Reforming the sacraments, with Jennifer Powell McNutt [MIPodcast]
Martin Luther believed the Bible proved that the Catholic Church had gone astray. His efforts to bring reform to the church wound up leading to his excommunication and the Reformation was off and...
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#69—Setting down the sacred past of African Americans, with Laurie...
An estimated twelve million Africans were forced into slavery from the seventeenth century until Emancipation. Torn from their land, separated from family and kin, their bodies were stolen and their...
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#70—A Hindu perspective on being a disciple-scholar, with Ravi Gupta [MIPodcast]
Who owns religion? Who gets to say what is right or wrong, fact or fiction about any religious tradition? Religious believers and scholars of religion don’t always see eye to eye on this question. In...
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#71—Mormon exorcism lore, with Stephen Taysom [MIPodcast]
This special episode is a tribute to and homage of LORE, by Aaron Mahnke. If you haven’t already, you should check it out. In 1888 a Mormon woman in the Southern States mission of the LDS Church...
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#72—The Koran in English, with Bruce Lawrence and David Peck [MIPodcast]
When the Qur’an was revealed to the prophet Muhammad, it arrived in the language of his place and time—Arabic. To this day, for virtually all Muslims whether Arab or not, the Qur’an only truly exists...
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#73—Women and power in the Church of God in Christ, with Anthea Butler...
If you’re familiar with African American religious history, you know that black women outnumber black men in the church. There are a lot of theories about why, too. Author Zora Neale Hurston, for...
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