james e. faulconer

The Doctrine and Covenants Made Harder is available again for sale on Amazon. The ebook has been available all along, of course, but in response to your requests we've issued another print run from the popular series. And this time we included a handy scripture index. (If you already own the book, here's a copy of the index just for you.)Place orders now, because it may take several weeks for books to appear in Amazon's stock.James E. Faulconer’s “Made Harder” books are a great resource for Sunday school teachers, Seminary and Institute instructors, missionaries, and other Latter-day Saints. Rather than interpreting the text for readers, these books are loaded with questions to inspire deeper and more personal thought. Faulconer's questions can improve your Sunday school lessons, sacrament meeting talks, family home evenings, or personal scripture study. Sample Chapters To get a sense for how these books might help your study and preparation, try a few sample chapters:LESSON 18→LESSON 23→Learn more about the 'Made Harder' series here.

Last week I lent a copy of The New Testament Made Harder to another Sunday school teacher in my ward. I pointed out that the book follows the lessons from the Gospel Doctrine Sunday school manual. He thumbed through the book for a second and said, “Hey, The New Testament Made Harder is going to make my lesson prep so much easier!”We both laughed, but I knew he was right. The quality of the lessons I teach depends largely on how well I prepare during my own personal scripture study. My lessons go even better when students come prepared having already spent time thinking about the scriptures assigned for the week. James E. Faulconer’s entire MADE HARDER series was written to spur deeper and more focused engagement with Latter-day Saint scriptures.

So much of modern life is geared toward finding faster and easier ways to do the same old things. The Made Harder series is proof that making things easier doesn’t always make them better—especially when it comes to our study of sacred scripture. This new series from Latter-day Saint philosopher James E. Faulconer raises many more questions than it answers…and that’s precisely the point!

James E. Faulconer is a professor of philosophy, a long-time devoted student of the scriptures, and author of the new “Made Harder” series from the Neal A. Maxwell Institute. —BHodges

James Faulconer is here to tell us about a forthcoming title from the Maxwell Institute called Postponing Heaven. The book compares the Book of Mormon’s Three Nephites to the Mahdî of Islam and Buddhism’s bodhisattva. These figures sacrifice their personal existence—not by dying, but by consecrating their existence to others in different ways. Faulconer, who holds the Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding at Brigham Young University, blogs at Patheos. He is author of the Maxwell Institute’s forthcoming “Made Harder” scripture series. —BHodges

It has been a few months since Professor James E. Faulconer delivered our annual Laura F. Willes Book of Mormon Lecture, “Sealings and Mercies: Moroni’s Final Exhortation in Moroni 10.” We’re kicking off our new YouTube channel with Faulconer’s fresh perspective on the last chapter of the Book of Mormon.Faulconer teaches in the BYU Philosophy Department and holds the Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding at BYU. He publishes regularly in journals on topics concerning scripture study and the philosophy of religion.

What is a 'family'? This question was the focus of the 2014 Neal A. Maxwell Lecture featuring James E. Faulconer. The entire lecture (with a few technical glitches) is now available on our YouTube channel.

The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship is pleased to announce the publication of James E. Faulconer's new MADE HARDER book series. Each book is available to order on Amazon. Ebook versions will be made available in the coming months. The Old Testament Made Harder: Scripture Study Questions