neal a. maxwell lecture

David F. Holland's 2017 Neal A. Maxwell lecture is now available on the Institute's YouTube channel. The title of his remarks is 'Latter-day Saints and the Problem of Pain.' A transcript of the lecture will also be available in the coming weeks. For more about our 10th anniversary celebration, which featured this lecture, see mi.byu.edu/10years.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp97FgzjQR0

As a scholar-practitioner of speech-language pathology, Dr. Bonnie Brinton has learned to allowing spiritual and academic insight flow both ways. Her faith sometimes informs her research and her research sometimes informs her faith. For over thirty years she has discovered 'small and simple' principles to sustain her contributions to the understanding and treatment of children’s language impairment. Dr. Brinton spoke of her work and faith in the 2015 Neal A. Maxwell Lecture.The lecture is now available on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSIK3YDIYpI 'What we learned from working with Jenny offered us some important spiritual insights. Jenny had a lot going on in her life, and her behavior was highly inconsistent. She could not be judged any given day on the basis of how she had behaved the day before. Jenny’s behavior was often challenging, but she was employing new emotional knowledge and language ability to enact small acts of heroism. We could never really know what it felt like to be Jenny, we could only guess. In assessing Jenny’s behavior, we were reminded that only the Lord really knows what is inside of us. Only He can truly evaluate or judge our behavior in any situation. Only the Lord knows our personal contexts and our understanding. Only the Lord can know a person’s intentions or evaluate a person’s behavior. Only the Lord can assess each person’s progress. No wonder the Savior instructed us, 'Judge not that ye be not judged''

The life of Elder Neal A. Maxwell was recently discussed as part of the Church History Library's 'Men and Women of Faith' lecture series. The Church History Library has made this lecture and others from the series available online at history.lds.org:

The fifth annual Neal A. Maxwell lecture was delivered by BYU emeritus professor of English Marilyn Arnold on March 10, 2011. In this devotional address, Arnold describes how her love of literary scholarship meshed with her developing views of Christian discipleship as she discovered literary richness in the Book of Mormon.

We're working to upload each of the annual Neal A. Maxwell lectures from 2007 to the present to YouTube. Today's addition comes from Alan C. Ashton, who delivered the sixth annual Neal A. Maxwell Lecture in April 2012. His devotional approach highlights various names used in scripture to identify Jesus Christ and discusses what the names indicate about the mission of Jesus Christ. A transcript of Ashton's address is available here, which includes an appendix of the names for Christ that Ashton has collected in his study of the scriptures.