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3 Nephi 20-26: What I Want My Nephew to Know about Missions
Next week is an exciting one for our family: my nephew will leave the Mission Training Center and travel to the country in eastern Europe where he’s been called to serve.
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3 Nephi 17-19: Guarding the Body (Prayer as Vigil)
Jesus spends much of 3 Nephi 18 passing out gifts to an assembled multitude, usually by giving them first to his disciples.
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Art Highlight: Bible Illustrations
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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3 Nephi 12-16: Ask, Seek, Knock
Christ’s Sermon at the Temple in Bountiful, like its close textual cousin, the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, is a feast and a puzzle.
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3 Nephi 8-11: Christ Comes to Bountiful, or Egypt Meets Sinai
The events described in 3 Nephi 8 at the death of Christ are a catalog of disaster. Tremendous thunderstorms spark wildfire, three days of total darkness isolate survivors in cells of grief, and the face of the land is contorted by earthquake into a death mask.
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3 Nephi 1-7: Back Where We Started
A few Sundays ago, a bishopric counselor sat on my living room couch, all smiles, to extend me a new calling: primary chorister. My heart sank. Primary chorister has been, for many years, high on my list of Church Assignments That Scare Me and That I Think I’ll Be Really Bad At.
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Fall 2024 Wonder of Scripture Lecture Schedule
This year, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship will be hosting a Wonder of Scripture Lecture Series, every Friday at 11 AM. These lectures will be held in 3714 HBLL and uploaded to our YouTube channel for on-demand streaming.
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Helaman 13-16: Spreading Rumors and Contentions Upon all the Face of the Land
While an undergraduate at BYU, I spent six weeks in a large log cabin called Timp Lodge at Aspen Grove near the Sundance Ski Resort. At this biology camp, I took courses in Ecology, limnology (the study of lakes), and aquatic entomology.
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BYU’s Maxwell Institute announces new research initiatives, full-time fellowships for BYU faculty, and expanded campus offerings
Brigham Young University’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship has adopted four key research initiatives, says J.B. Haws, executive director. The Institute will center its efforts on the fields of Book of Mormon, Bible, Interfaith Understanding, and Latter-day Saint Discipleship.
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