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2024 Annual Lecture Recording
January 08, 2025 01:40 PM
Thank you for being here. I don't know what to say. It's overwhelming to be here with you and to have Elder Gilbert. Christina. What beautiful, beautiful words of consecration And thank you so much, Rosalynde, for that wonderful introduction. How many of you have an Elder Maxwell story where you remember something that he said or did that indelibly stays with you?
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Elder Maxwell Addresses Introduction
January 03, 2025 10:58 AM
A few years ago, J. Spencer Fluhman, then-director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, and Elder Maxwell’s children (Cory Maxwell, Becky Maxwell Ahlander, Nancy Maxwell Anderson, and Jane Maxwell Sanders) collaborated on a volume of talks by Elder Maxwell that would allow Elder Maxwell’s words to echo through future generations. Considering over a hundred talks in a variety of settings, the family chose twenty-four talks they felt were the most incisive and enduring statements of gospel principles and of Elder Maxwell’s testimony.
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Living Faith Snippet: Zion Earth Zen Sky
December 18, 2024 12:38 PM
We teach a single man named Konishi. He's a good-natured, rotund fellow in his forties. He ekes out a living by doing laundry. His home is filled with clothes hanging out to dry. He heats his house with a simple coal-burning stove. At some point in the past, the fire had gotten so hot that the steel had melted, leaving the stove misshapen, pulled down by gravity, a la Oldenburg.
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Moroni 10: That Which is Good...is True
December 17, 2024 11:41 AM
Moroni, who brought the Book of Mormon to a close before “sealing up” the large record abridged by his father, was a veteran of calamity. And it can be dangerous to tame calamity too readily. In our zeal for happy endings, we risk trivializing tragedy, justifying wretchedness, domesticating human agony, or avoiding reality.
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Moroni 7-9: Without Love, Ye Are Nothing
December 08, 2024 03:05 PM
The Book of Moroni is the only book within the Book of Mormon whose original 1830 chapter breaks have all been retained in our modern editions. I suspect the reason is that, for the most part, Moroni’s chapters were already short to begin with.
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Book series “Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants” is now available to order
December 02, 2024 09:44 AM
BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship is pleased to announce the launch of a seven-volume book series, Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants. This multi-authored series, a first in Doctrine and Covenants scholarship, distills the significance of Joseph Smith’s revelations for readers seeking a life of faith in the modern world. Each concise volume traces a different theme across the Doctrine and Covenants, touching on the beloved and the lesser-known revelations and combining scholarly insight with practical application.
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Moroni 1-6: Sharing the Sacrament with Moroni at the End of Time
December 02, 2024 09:15 AM
The book of Moroni is the only book in the Book of Mormon in which the phrase “it came to pass” is entirely absent. Perhaps that phrase seems trivial and its absence insignificant--though I think otherwise--but it at the very least it points to the unique character of the book of Moroni.
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Ether 12-15: Peacemakers and Pride
November 25, 2024 05:22 PM
I can never come anymore to the last chapters of Ether without thinking of what still stands out in my mind as a wonderfully unexpected Ensign article from the February 2008 issue.
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Ether 6-11: Light and Void
November 17, 2024 11:39 AM
Most of us know the story: The brother of Jared, concerned about crossing the ocean in waterproof—and, consequently, lightproof—ships, sought the Lord's help and, using his creativity, presented sixteen molten stones for the Lord to illuminate.
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