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MIConversations—Terryl Givens with Samuel Brown, “Confessions of an ‘Odd...
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 #93—Women in the New Testament and beyond, with Carolyn Osiek
When you think about the earliest Christians you might imagine the twelve disciples, like Peter and John. Maybe Paul comes to mind. But what about women in early Christianity? What drew them to a life...
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MIPodcast #94—People with disabilities in religious communities
Almost fifty million people in the United States live with some type of physical or intellectual disability. That’s one in five. In this special episode, twelve distinguished guests—scholars,...
View ArticleMIPodcast #95—“Answering sincere gospel questions,” with Spencer Fluhman
This bonus episode feature Spencer Fluhman delivering his 2019 BYU Women’s Conference address, “Answering Sincere Questions about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” It also features an announcement about...
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MIPodcast #96—The untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao’s China, with Xi...
One of the most outspoken critics of Chairman Mao’s cultural revolution was a young poet and journalist named Lin Zhao. She was a Christian convert, then a member of the Communist Party, then an enemy...
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MIPodcast #97—Our wild hope, with Reverend Dr. Andrew Teal
When Latter-day Saint apostle Elder Jeffrey R. Holland visited Oxford University in England last year, he became fast friends with Reverend Dr. Andrew Teal of Pembroke College. The two of them hit it...
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MIConversations #10—Terryl Givens with Rosaynde Welch, “Life on the road to...
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. Is...
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MIPodcast #98—Briefly First Nephi, with Joseph M. Spencer
“I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents...” So begins the first book in the Book of Mormon. First Nephi. And this is the first episode in a special series of interviews with authors of the...
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MIPodcast #99—Briefly Second Nephi, with Terryl Givens
This episode continues our special series of episodes on the Maxwell Institute’s Brief Theological Introductions to the Book of Mormon. Terryl Givens is author of the volume on what many readers...
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MIPodcast #101, Rediscovering Mary, mother of God, with Catherine Taylor
For centuries, Christians have celebrated Mary as the miraculous virgin and Mother of God. Catherine Taylor suggests a much richer history of traditions about Mary, much closer to the experiences of...
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MIPodcast #102—Celebrating women’s suffrage in Utah, with Katherine...
February 14, 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of Utah women first exercising the right to vote, and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution being ratified,...
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MIPodcast #103—Briefly Jacob, with Deidre Green
This episode continues our special series on the Maxwell Institute’s Brief Theological Introductions to the Book of Mormon. Deidre Green is author of the volume on the book of Jacob. Green presents...
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MIPodcast #100—Celebrating 100 episodes of the Maxwell Institute Podcast,...
Get behind the scenes of the Maxwell Institute Podcast in this special interview celebrating one hundred episodes. Jeremy King, the Maxwell Institute’s administrator and controller, invited host Blair...
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Briefly Enos, Jarom, & Omni, with Sharon J. Harris [MIPodcast #104]
This episode continues our special series on the Maxwell Institute’s Brief Theological Introductions to the Book of Mormon. Literary scholar and theologian Sharon J. Harris investigates the messy...
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MIPodcast—‘If Truth Were a Child,’ with George Handley
We live in an age of polemics. Choices are presented as mutually exclusive and we are given little time to listen. You are either secular or religious. You either believe in the exclusive truth of...
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MIPodcast—Briefly Mosiah, with James E. Faulconer
This episode continues our special series of episodes on the Maxwell Institute’s brief theological introductions to the Book of Mormon. In his book on Mosiah, philosopher and theologian James E....
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MIPodcast—The life of Jane Manning James, with Quincy Newell
Jane Manning James stood out among early Latter-day Saints as one of few black converts. She was baptized into the Church as a free black woman in Connecticut and migrated to Nauvoo with her family,...
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MIPodcast—‘Railroading Religion,’ with David Walker
When railroads started making their way across the western frontier of the United States in the 1800s, many Americans thought it would destroy the religion known as “Mormonism.” Brigham Young,...
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MIPodcast—The Book of Mormon’s ethic of mournful wakefulness, with David...
The Book of Mormon has important things to say about how we say important things, according to David Charles Gore. He’s author of The Voice of the People: Political Rhetoric in the Book of Mormon...
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MIPodcast—Briefly Alma 1–29, with Kylie Nelson Turley
Alma is an idolatrous man in the Book of Mormon, a wicked man according to the text—until an angel’s rebuke leads to his repentance and then two decades of righteous service in realms both political...
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