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Alma 13-16: What Should We Do with Terrifying Scripture?
“In this book, my task is to tell sad stories as I hear them. Indeed, they are tales of terror with women as victims.” These are the opening words of a difficult and important book, Texts of Terror, by the biblical scholar Phyllis Trible.
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Alma 8-12: Cultivating a Soft Heart
Let's think about hearts. At the close of Alma chapter 11, Amulek has just confounded Zeezrom, not by defeating him in a contest of logic nor by the force of his superior skills in the art of debate and persuasion. Instead, he has looked into this man's heart and has begun to help him recover a deeper and truer self.
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2024 Book of Mormon Art Contest Winners Announced
Thank you to all who participated in the second year of the Book of Mormon Art Contest! The Book of Mormon Art Contest was created to inspire students and strengthen their testimonies in the Book of Mormon, and to represent more people and stories from the ancient text in the Book of Mormon Art Catalog.
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Alma 5-7: Remembering and Experiencing Redemption
In chapter 5, we see Alma the Younger recount the origins of the church of God that his father Alma founded after Abinadi’s preaching. Alma the Younger reminds the people of the three occasions of deliverance from bondage that his father’s people experienced in the events of Mosiah 18-24: deliverance from the people of King Noah, the Lamanites, and sin.
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Art Highlight: The Fruits of Our Labor
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.
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Mosiah 29-Alma 4: The Ratatouille Principle
There are many reasons to love the principle that the “preacher was no better than the hearer” (Alma 1:26). I want to speak in favor of one small such reason. I can’t stop thinking of it as “the Ratatouille Principle.”
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Last Call for Submissions to the 2024 Book of Mormon Art Contest
The 2024 Book of Mormon Art Contest closes on June 1, 2024 at 11:59 PM. Have you submitted your artwork yet? The contest is open to all BYU Provo undergraduate and graduate students. Winners will receive prize money, be included in an art display on campus, and be honored at a reception. All submissions will be added to the Book of Mormon Art Catalog.
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Mosiah 25-28: Generational Ruptures and Reconciliations in the Book of Mosiah
The chapters at the end of the book of Mosiah see an important change in the shape of the story we’ve been following (or trying to follow, at any rate). From the time of the first King Mosiah, peoples and records have divided and re-divided into ever-narrower strands of story: Zeniff’s colony splits from the Zarahemla-based group; then Alma’s people depart into the wilderness; then Noah and his cronies leave their families, and their group fractures into multiple sub-factions.
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Mosiah 18-24: To Know the Lord Is to Live in Covenant with Him
I’ve always thought that these chapters were a story of two peoples—the people of King Limhi and the people of Alma. But on closer reading I noticed a third group of people that undergoes dramatic change in these chapters—the Lamanites. All three groups learn something that changes their physical conditions, but their spiritual change and relationship with the Lord vary.
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