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Seeing With Our Whole Bodies (Adapted from Seeing by Mason Kamana Allred)
The Doctrine and Covenants makes the provocative wager that spiritual vision is a mode of seeing that lights up the whole body so that we feel, sense, and know not just through the eyes. This realization illuminates passages like those that promise r...
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Why Not Now?
My brothers and sisters, I would like to speak of and to a particular group of important individuals. These are they who fully intend, someday, to begin to believe and/or to be active in the Church. But not yet! These are not bad individuals but good...
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Call for Submissions: 2025 Book of Mormon Art Contest
The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship is seeking original art created by BYU students for the 3rd Annual Book of Mormon Art Contest. Artwork will be featured in the Book of Mormon Art Catalog, in an art display on BYU campus, and wi...
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A Constitution for All (Adapted from Divine Law, by Justin Collings)
The notion that divine inspiration informs the U.S. Constitution is a distinctive teaching of the restored Church and a striking declaration, thrice repeated, of the Doctrine and Covenants. The revelations declare that the Constitution incorporates a...
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2024 Annual Lecture Recording
Thank you for being here. I don't know what to say. It's overwhelming to be here with you and to have Elder Gilbert. Christina. What beautiful, beautiful words of consecration And thank you so much, Rosalynde, for that wonderful introduction. How ma...
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Elder Maxwell Addresses Introduction
A few years ago, J. Spencer Fluhman, then-director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, and Elder Maxwell’s children (Cory Maxwell, Becky Maxwell Ahlander, Nancy Maxwell Anderson, and Jane Maxwell Sanders) collaborated on a vol...
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Moroni 10: That Which is Good...is True
Moroni, who brought the Book of Mormon to a close before “sealing up” the large record abridged by his father, was a veteran of calamity. And it can be dangerous to tame calamity too readily. In our zeal for happy endings, we risk trivializing traged...
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Moroni 7-9: Without Love, Ye Are Nothing
The Book of Moroni is the only book within the Book of Mormon whose original 1830 chapter breaks have all been retained in our modern editions. I suspect the reason is that, for the most part, Moroni’s chapters were already short to begin with.
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Book series “Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants” is now available to order
BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship is pleased to announce the launch of a seven-volume book series, Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants. This multi-authored series, a first in Doctrine and Covenants scholarship, distills the s...
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