As we approach our 10th anniversary celebration this week, we invite you to watch this trailer for the forthcoming film about the work of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute, “By Study and Also By Faith.” We hope to see you on Saturday, October 29th at the annual Neal A. Maxwell Lecture, to be delivered by […]
Read MoreIn this excerpt from One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly Ashley Mae Hoiland writes about a touching conversation about Jesus. The latest book in the Living Faith series lands November 1. You can preorder on Amazon, or pick up a copy at Deseret Book and other LDS bookstores. In the meantime, we’ll post a few more book excerpts here. Just click the […]
Read MoreJoseph Smith translated much of the Book of Mormon by placing a seer stone in a hat then reading the book’s text to a scribe.1 Once thought by many Latter-day Saints to be an anti-Mormon fairy tale, recent Latter-day Saint scholars have affirmed this story, one that some historians had long known. How do Latter-day Saints reckon […]
Read MoreAshley Mae Hoiland is a creative writer, which is another way to say she’s a storyteller. Her forthcoming book in the Living Faith series shows what happens when a Latter-day Saint with a Master of Fine Arts degree brings her academic training to bear on her personal faith.
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"American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism," with Thomas W. Simpson [ 1:16:43 | 105.69 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAs the twentieth century dawned, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remained at odds with the United States, a country that had provided fertile soil for the growth of their faith, but also a country they felt alienated from. Some of the things Mormons did to keep themselves separate from the outside world ended […]
Read MoreThis year the Maxwell Institute celebrates its tenth anniversary. What a decade it has been! The Institute has published more than a dozen dual-language translations of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian texts. It’s maintained three annual periodicals dedicated to scripture or Mormon studies: Mormon Studies Review, Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, and Studies in the Bible […]
Read MorePerhaps you’ve experienced moments of doubt about your religious faith. Or maybe you’re one of the people who find doubt to be a more frequent companion in your spiritual life. Either way, doubt can be unsettling and uncomfortable. Biblical scholar Peter Enns suggests that part of the problem is that many Christians have come to […]
Read MoreJessica Steele has an energetic passion for the Middle East and its life, culture, religion, politics, history, and geography. She recently completed a year as a research assistant at the Maxwell Institute’s Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts. In this guest post she reflects on her time at the Institute as it draws […]
Read MoreJames L. Kugel is one of the foremost scholars of the Hebrew Bible of our time. Kugel recently visited BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute to talk about his work and about the relationship between religious faith and scholarship about scripture. Kugel is an orthodox Jew and biblical scholar who became somewhat legendary for revisiting ancient paradigms. […]
Read MoreROSALYNDE WELCH—I had an arresting start to my morning as I listened to historian Thomas Laqueur on the Maxwell Institute Podcast describe his experience scattering the ashes of his father—a German Jew forced to flee Nazi Germany never to return to his birthland—at the grave of his grandfather, a passionate German nationalist who died in 1927 before Hitler’s atrocities.[…]
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