The Maxwell Institute is delighted to welcome Dr. David D. Peck from Brigham Young University–Idaho as one of our 2017 visiting scholars. David D. Peck is a Latter-day Saint scholar who loves learning and teaching about Islam at BYU-Idaho. Hence his dismay when he heard about another instructor at the school who showed a YouTube video […]

Can humans truly capture the divine with pen and paper? It can feel like trying to gather smoke armed only with a butterfly net. Nevertheless, Christians over the centuries haven’t always been deterred by the degree of difficulty, with many expressing their faith not only through ritual and art, but also by the written word. Some of the most remarkable […]

Yesterday, June 10, marked another anniversary of Emma Smith’s 1804 birth. More than a year older than her husband and Latter-day Saint prophet Joseph Smith, she died at Nauvoo, Illinois in 1879. Renowned historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich took a moment in her recent lecture at Brigham Young University to reflect on Emma’s hands as seen in this captivating photograph […]