I’m a religious person. I also consider myself to be an intellectual. As an intellectual—a humanities scholar in particular—I write and teach about human culture and engage in debate and research about a wide range of ideas and values. I’m familiar with philosophy. I consider myself rational. As a Latter-day Saint, I worship in church […]

An excerpt from Grant Hardy’s interview with Stephen O. Smoot on the LDS Perspectives podcast. Download or read the transcript here. Read a sample chapter from the Maxwell Institute Study Edition of the Book of Mormon, which Hardy edited, below. Stephen O. Smoot (LDS Perspectives): You’ve been studying the Book of Mormon for a very long […]

Mark Alan Wright is an associate professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. He formerly served as an associate editor of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies.  Several years ago I had the opportunity to use an early draft of the Maxwell Institute Study Edition with students in my Book of Mormon course at […]

In many ways, the story of my intellectual and spiritual life (and my refusal to distinguish between the two) is a story of my learning to read with the Book of Mormon. For that reason, the unique opportunity afforded by the 2018 Mormon Theology Seminar to spend two weeks in intensive, collaborative study of Mosiah […]