A guest post by Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye “Which are the best Chinese popsicles—red bean or green bean?” “When is cultural revolution a bad idea?” “Can someone be a critical scholar and a believing Latter-day Saint at the same time?” “If the history of the Restoration sometimes overlaps with the history of racism, sexism, and other […]

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 […]