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Green Week Devotional

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday, April 03
Join BYU Sustainability and the Maxwell Institute for a Green Week devotional.
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2024 Book of Mormon Art Contest is Open

Thursday, February 01 - Saturday, June 01
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Approaching the Tree Artwork Gallery

Friday, January 12 - Friday, May 03
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News & Blog

Easter: Make a Little Space for Death

Easter is soon upon us. A comely season, no matter the weather. A time of promise and hope, of renewal and imminent or arrived beauty. Whatever can T.S. Eliot have been thinking when he decreed April the cruelest month?

Art Highlight: Palm Sunday

This artwork and its accompanying caption were created by Meranda Brodowski, a student artist and designer at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Meranda is from California and has worked at the Maxwell Institute since January. She is a Fine Arts Major at Brigham Young University, with an emphasis in technology. She strives to create inspiring artwork that represents her faith and testimony.

What is a Disciple-Scholar? Featuring Rosalynde Frandsen Welch

"Whatever our particular fields of scholarship, the real test is individual discipleship, not scholarship. But how good it is when these two can company together, blending meekness with brightness and articulateness with righteousness." –Elder Neal A. Maxwell

Featured Scholars

Jennifer C. Lane

September 12, 2022 12:01 PM
Jennifer C. Lane is Neal A. Maxwell Research Associate at the Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and professor emerita at Brigham Young University–Hawaii. She received her Ph.D. in religion with an emphasis in history of Christianity from Claremont Graduate University.

Philip Barlow

September 12, 2022 11:13 AM
Philip Barlow is a Neal A. Maxwell Research Associate. Having previously served as the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History & Culture at Utah State University, his teaching engages religion and human suffering, religion and the concept of “time,” American religious history, and Restoration movements.

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