Maxwell Institute Podcast

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Maxwell Institute Podcast #150: The Proclaim Peace Conference
October 04, 2022

In June 2022, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarshipand the David O. McKay Centerfor Intercultural Understandinghosted a conference based upon Patrick Masons and David Pulsiphers

Abide: Isaiah 58-66
October 03, 2022

Today we are joined by Dr. Joseph Spencer, a philosopher, theologian and Assistant Professor of Ancient Scripture here at Brigham Young University. Dr. Spencer is the editor of the Journal of Book of

Maxwell Institute Podcast #149: Healing Our Racial Divide, with Derwin and Vicki Gray
September 20, 2022

Listen to Pastor Derwin Gray and Vicki Gray speak on Derwins new book, Healing Our Racial Divide: What the Bible Says, and the First Christians Knew, About Racial Reconciliation!Link to book: Amazon

Abide: Isaiah 40-49
September 19, 2022

Jesus promises in the Gospel of John that he will not leave us comfortless, but that He will come to us. He promises in Matthew that he will give us rest when we are weary and heavy-laden. In my exper

Abide: Isaiah 13-14; 24–30; 35
September 12, 2022

Richard Bushman once told me that panic precedes revelation. Dr. Bushman was discussing the process by which Joseph Smith received the First Vision (recall the line from the Pearl of Great Price tha

Abide: Isaiah 1-12
September 05, 2022

Isaiah. Latter-day Saints have a special relationship to this Old Testament prophet. Not only do we recognize prophets across all dispensations, but his words were carried by Lehis family to the Amer

Abide: Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
August 29, 2022

Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs can fall by the wayside when we study them in Sunday School. They dont always fit into the narratives that we understand about dispensations of authority

Maxwell Institute Podcast #148: The Weight of Legacy, with Kate Holbrook
August 23, 2022

Kate Holbrook, PhD (19722022) was a leading voice in the study of Latter-day Saintwomen and Latter-day Saint foodways. As managing historian of womens history atthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-

Abide: Psalms Part Three
August 22, 2022

A book has many lives. Its thought, its edited, its printed, its reprinted, its commentated on, and this repeats, if the book merits it, ad infinitum. This is certainly true for the Bible as a wh

(Reuploaded) Maxwell Institute Podcast #147: Slavery, Sacred Texts, and Historical Consciousness, with Jordan Watkins
August 17, 2022

In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nations sacred religious and legal texts the Bible and the Constitution to address the slavery crisis. The ensuing political debates