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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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Moroni 1-6: Sharing the Sacrament with Moroni at the End of Time
The book of Moroni is the only book in the Book of Mormon in which the phrase “it came to pass” is entirely absent. Perhaps that phrase seems trivial and its absence insignificant--though I think otherwise--but it at the very least it points to the u...
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Ether 12-15: Peacemakers and Pride
I can never come anymore to the last chapters of Ether without thinking of what still stands out in my mind as a wonderfully unexpected Ensign article from the February 2008 issue.
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Book of Mormon Art Catalog Expands to Include Restoration History and Scripture
The world’s largest database of Latter-day Saint art just got bigger. The Book of Mormon Art Catalog (https://bookofmormonartcatalog.org) now includes not only visual art inspired by the Book of Mormon but also art based on Church history, the Doctri...
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Ether 6-11: Light and Void
Most of us know the story: The brother of Jared, concerned about crossing the ocean in waterproof—and, consequently, lightproof—ships, sought the Lord's help and, using his creativity, presented sixteen molten stones for the Lord to illuminate.
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Seeking Applicants for the Annual Summer Seminar on Latter-day Saint Theology, “Peaceable Followers of Christ: Reading Moroni 7”
In the summer of 2025, the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar, with support from the Neal A. Maxwell Institute at Brigham Young University, the Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University, and the Mormon Studies program at C...
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Call for Applications for a Rotational Fellowship
The Maxwell Institute invites applications from current BYU faculty in Provo with Continuing Faculty Status (CFS) for a 2-year full-time appointment to a rotational fellowship at the Institute. Successful appointees will maintain CFS status for the d...
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Ether 1-5: Two Kinds of Friendship
We are suffering from an epidemic of loneliness and have been for some time now. Not only are we bowling alone, but we are often most alone when surrounded by people or connected to seemingly vibrant virtual communities.
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Mormon 7-9: Hope in Christ
It’s common, when we meet Moroni, to express sympathy for his plight. We gather in Sunday School, nodding soberly, as we imagine wandering alone, grieving a fallen nation, being hunted for commitment to Christ.
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