Latter-day Saint scholar Richard Lloyd Anderson has died. Dr. Anderson was a long-time contributor to FARMS and Maxwell Institute publications, specializing in historical research about the 19th-century witnesses to the Book of Mormon. Dr. Anderson’s research was so far-reaching that when the time came to publish a festschrift in his honor it was decided to create […]

The 2018 Mormon Theology Seminar recently wrapped up at the Cittadella Ospitalità in Assisi, Italy. In this guest post, Adam Miller talks about his experience. Miller is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas and co-director of the Mormon Theology Seminar. He is author of Letters to a Young Mormon and An Early […]

The Maxwell Institute is pleased to welcome Christopher James Blythe as a Research Associate at our Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies. He joins us after three years of documentary editing at the LDS Church History Department’s Joseph Smith Papers. Blythe obtained his PhD from Florida State University in American Religious History […]

Greetings from beautiful Assisi, Italy! This year’s Mormon Theology Seminar is underway, thanks to the generous sponsorship of Brigham Young University’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute and Wheatley Institution. The selected scripture of focus is Mosiah 4 (particularly verses 4–25). Our participants hail from a variety of disciplines and institutions. Adam Miller and me are co-directing this […]

Mpho Tutu van Furth, Joseph Sebarenzi, and Deidre Green’s presentations are now available to watch online: “Forgiveness & Reconciliation: A Maxwell Institute Symposium.” Because we live in an imperfect world, each of us will need to forgive others and each of us will need to be forgiven. Perhaps we can easily practice forgiveness for everyday […]

The Maxwell Institute is pleased to welcome Josh Probert as a visiting scholar from June 2018 through June 2019. Probert is a historian who specializes in American architecture, decorative arts, and the material culture of religion, having received his PhD in American history from the University of Delaware in cooperation with the Winterthur Museum. Probert currently works as […]