The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Matthew Wickman, professor of English and coordinator of the Faith and Imagination Institute at Brigham Young University, joins Rosalynde Welch, Shawn Tucker, and graduate student co-host Lara Buckwalter to discuss academic methods, disciplinary boundaries, literature, and spiritual experience. Together, they explore bringing religious questions into academic work, learning across disciplines, praying over scholarship, and allowing rigorous study to deepen faith in and discipleship to Jesus Christ.

In this episode, Jane Wise, an attorney and emerita faculty member who taught legal writing at Brigham Young University Law School for more than 25 years, joins Rosalynde Welch, Shawn Tucker, and graduate student co-host Lara Buckwalter to discuss women in academia and the legal profession. Together, they explore navigating competitive institutions, responding to exclusion with curiosity and empathy, integrating family and professional life, and finding joy through relationships, service, and discipleship to Jesus Christ.