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Helaman 7-12: Pride is More Than We Might Assume
Pride is a danger oft targeted by Latter-day Saints: in our scriptures, our lesson manuals, and our general conference addresses. We did not, of course, invent this orientation.
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Helaman 1-6: The Hero's Journey
Do you know this story? A young person of no special consequence happens across a seemingly nondescript object that turns out to be imbued with power. The object leads them on a journey through magical lands and unknown regions, toiling up forbidding mountains and facing their fears in murky forests.
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Alma 53-63: Happy for Someone Else’s Miracle
The stories associated with Helaman’s 2000 stripling warriors always stand out at the end of the book of Alma, even in a block of eleven chapters (Alma 53-63) filled with all kinds of action-packed episodes and characters. And rightly so, given how remarkable and memorable—and miraculous—the experiences of Helaman’s band truly were.
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Art Highlight: I Will Stand As the Oceans Roar
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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Alma 43-52: The Irreplaceable Weapon
Shortly after I started my PhD program at the University of Edinburgh, my parents came to visit us in Scotland. Walking along the busy Princes Street, my dad couldn’t take his eyes off of the iconic Edinburgh Castle, which sits atop an extinct volcano in the center of the city.
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Alma 39-42: The Justice of God
Corianton was not the only soul to be disturbed by the scriptural language of punishment, misery, and retribution. What Christian has not been troubled by the prevalence of images of anger and doom that await the wicked?
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Alma 36-38: Judgment and Transformation
Alma the Younger’s conversion is one of the more memorable stories in the Book of Mormon-- not only because it is recounted three times (first in Mosiah 27, then to his sons Helaman and Shiblon in Alma chapters 36 and 38) but because of its tenebristic drama.
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Alma 32-35: Planting Love
Scripture does not read itself; no text does. It takes a reader to come along and make sense of the language on the page for it to have meaning that persists in the world. Scripture is a particularly rich site of meaning-making because of all the ways that we, as a community of faith, invest it with authority.
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Alma 30-31: Foolishness and Covenant Knowledge
We often focus on Korihor’s worldview. We zoom in on his shift between agnosticism and atheism. Another way to approach this text is to examine how Korihor frames the church. Paul taught that the wisdom of God is foolishness to the world (see 1 Corinthians 2:14).
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Alma 23-29: Superman, Strawberry Ice Cream, and Stains
As a young boy, my favorite superhero was Superman. I often wore a blue t-shirt with the iconic S symbol under a white dress shirt like Superman’s alter ego, Clark Kent. Sometimes, I even wore a clip-on tie.
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Art Highlight: Our Title of Liberty
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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Alma 17-22: Before Faith
These chapters sketch a cluster of encounters, principally between Ammon and Aaron (converted missionary sons of King Mosiah II and friends of Alma the younger) and two Lamanite kings: Lamoni and his unnamed father and sovereign.
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Remembering Thomas F. Rogers
It is with sadness that we learn of the passing today of Thomas F. Rogers, an emeritus professor of Russian at BYU and the author of an award-winning collection of essays in our Living Faith series, Let Your Hearts and Minds Expand: Reflections on Faith, Reason, Charity, and Beauty.
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Alma 13-16: What Should We Do with Terrifying Scripture?
“In this book, my task is to tell sad stories as I hear them. Indeed, they are tales of terror with women as victims.” These are the opening words of a difficult and important book, Texts of Terror, by the biblical scholar Phyllis Trible.
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Alma 8-12: Cultivating a Soft Heart
Let's think about hearts. At the close of Alma chapter 11, Amulek has just confounded Zeezrom, not by defeating him in a contest of logic nor by the force of his superior skills in the art of debate and persuasion. Instead, he has looked into this man's heart and has begun to help him recover a deeper and truer self.
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2024 Book of Mormon Art Contest Winners Announced
Thank you to all who participated in the second year of the Book of Mormon Art Contest! The Book of Mormon Art Contest was created to inspire students and strengthen their testimonies in the Book of Mormon, and to represent more people and stories from the ancient text in the Book of Mormon Art Catalog.
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Alma 5-7: Remembering and Experiencing Redemption
In chapter 5, we see Alma the Younger recount the origins of the church of God that his father Alma founded after Abinadi’s preaching. Alma the Younger reminds the people of the three occasions of deliverance from bondage that his father’s people experienced in the events of Mosiah 18-24: deliverance from the people of King Noah, the Lamanites, and sin.
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Art Highlight: The Fruits of Our Labor
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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