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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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are many reasons to love the principle that the “preacher was no better than the hearer” (Alma 1:26). I want to speak in favor of one small such reason. I can’t stop thinking of it as “the Ratatouille Principle.”
The 2024 Book of Mormon Art Contest closes on June 1, 2024 at 11:59 PM. Have you submitted your artwork yet? The contest is open to all BYU Provo undergraduate and graduate students. Winners will receive prize money, be included in an art display on campus, and be honored at a reception. All submissions will be added to the Book of Mormon Art Catalog.