Maxwell Institute Podcast

Maxwell Institute Podcast episodes:

• 04.18.2024

  Book of Mormon Studies Podcast: Enos, Jarom, Omni, Words of Mormon with Steven Peck

  Hello, and thanks for listening to another episode of the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast, where Rosalynde Welch, Associate Director of the Maxwell Institute and Host of the podcast talks with Steven Peck, a Professor of Biology, and Visiting Fellow...

  
• 04.16.2024

  Book of Mormon Studies Podcast: Enos, Jarom, Omni, Words of Mormon with Joseph Spencer

  Hello, and thanks for listening to another episode of the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast, where Rosalynde Welch, Associate Director of the Maxwell Institute and Host of the podcast talks with Joseph Spencer, a Professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU.In...

  
• 04.08.2024

  Book of Mormon Studies Podcast: Jacob with Kristian Heal

  Hello, and thanks for listening to another episode of the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast, where Rosalynde Welch, Associate Director of the Maxwell Institute and Host of the podcast talks with Kristian Heal, a Neal A. Maxwell Senior Research Fellow,...

  
• 03.22.2024

  Re-release of Maxwell Institute Podcast #159: Why Do We Pray? Featuring Kimberly Matheson

  While our editing team is working on the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast, we decided to re-release an episode from The Questions We Should Be Asking featuring Kimberly Matheson. We hope you enjoy it. If you can take the time...

  
• 03.05.2024

  Book of Mormon Studies Podcast: Jacob with Jeffrey Cannon

  On this episode of the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast, Rosalynde Welch, Associate Director of the Maxwell Institute and Host of the podcast interviews Jeffrey Cannon, a Laura F. Willes Research Associate and BYU Professor of Ancient Scripture. Jeff is...

  
• 02.19.2024

  Book of Mormon Studies Podcast: 2 Nephi with Timothy Farrant

  Welcome to another episode of the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast, where Rosalynde Welch, Associate Director of the Maxwell Institute and Host of the podcast talks with Timothy Farrant, a postdoctoral fellow at the Maxwell Institute.In this episode, they discuss...

  
• 02.05.2024

  Book of Mormon Studies Podcast: 2 Nephi with Joshua Sears

  Welcome to the third episode of the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast, where Rosalynde Welch, Associate Director of the Maxwell Institute and Host of the podcast talks with Joshua Sears, a professor of ancient scripture at BYU.In this episode, they...

  
• 01.29.2024

  Book of Mormon Studies Podcast: 1 Nephi with Jasmin Rappleye Gimenez (part 2)

  Part 2 of the 1 Nephi episode with Jasmin Rappleye.Welcome to the second episode of the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast, where Rosalynde Welch, Associate Director of the Maxwell Institute and Host of the podcast talks with Jasmin Rappleye Gimenez,...

  
• 01.29.2024

  Book of Mormon Studies Podcast: 1 Nephi with Jasmin Rappleye Gimenez (part 1)

  Welcome to the second episode of the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast, where Rosalynde Welch, Associate Director of the Maxwell Institute and Host of the podcast talks with Jasmin Rappleye Gimenez, the Communications Director of Scripture Central.In this episode, they...

  
• 01.14.2024

  Book of Mormon Studies Podcast: 1 Nephi with Kimberly Matheson

  Welcome to the first episode of the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast, where Rosalynde Welch, Associate Director of the Maxwell Institute and Host of the podcast interviews Kimberly Matheson, a Laura F. Willes Research Fellow at the Maxwell Institute.In this...

  
• 01.09.2024

  Book of Mormon Studies Podcast: Introduction

  Rosalynde Frandsen Welch, host of the Maxwell Institute Podcast announces a new show–the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast, which will be hosted in this feed. 2 episodes will be posted each month, one exploring the assigned text from Come, Follow...

  
• 01.01.2024

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #173: What Does it Mean to "Get Proximate"? Featuring Michalyn Steele

  I’m talking today with Professor Michalyn Steele, a member of the faculty at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, about Bryan Stevenson and his best-selling book Just Mercy. Stevenson has spent his career assisting people in some of the worst...

  
• 01.01.2024

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #171: How Does God Grieve? Featuring Mary Eyring

  Today on the podcast I’m talking with Dr. Mary Eyring, associate professor of English at Brigham Young University. Dr. Eyring studies early American literature, and her research has immersed her in the physical and spiritual suffering of ordinary women and...

  
• 12.31.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #172: How Do We Protect the Innocent and Help the Repentant? Featuring Brigham Frandsen

  On this episode of the podcast, I interview Dr. Brigham Frandsen, professor of economics at Brigham Young University. Brigham happens to be my little brother, but I’ve looked up to him almost my whole life for his intelligence and his...

  
• 12.15.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #170: Is Higher Education a Good Investment Today? Featuring Chip Oscarson

  Today on the podcast I’m talking with Dr. Christopher Oscarson, a scholar of environmental humanities and an associate dean of undergraduate education at BYU. Christopher, or Chip as he’s known, recently delivered an address entitled “Let Your Education Change You,”...

  
• 11.13.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #169: Where Do We Start to Build Zion? Featuring Melissa Inouye

  Life’s resistance is the topic of my guest Melissa Inouye’s new book, Sacred Struggle: Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance. Dr. Inouye works in the Church History Department, where she specializes in global Christianity and the global Latter-day...

  
• 10.31.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #168: Bodies: Limitation or Power? Featuring Rachael Johnson

  On this episode of the Maxwell Institute podcast, I talk with Rachael Johnson, a postdoctoral fellow at the Maxwell Institute, and a brilliant young scholar of early modern intellectual history. Dr. Johnson studies Christian theologies of embodiment -- the spiritual...

  
• 09.15.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #167: Do You Prefer Religious Art to be Powerful or Pretty? Featuring Anthony Sweat

  President Nelson recently taught, “As we seek to be disciples of Jesus Christ, our efforts to hear Him need to be ever more intentional. It takes conscious and consistent effort to fill our daily lives with His words, His teachings,...

  
• 08.30.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #166: Is Baptism for the Dead or the Living? Featuring Ryan Tobler

  Today I’m speaking with Dr. Ryan Tobler, a scholar of American religious history. Dr. Tobler worked as a postdoctoral fellow here at the Maxwell Institute for a year, and now is off to a new position as a lecturer at...

  
• 08.01.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #165: How Can "Both Things Be True"? Featuring Miranda Wilcox

  This episode of the podcast is very close to my heart. I’m speaking with Dr. Miranda Wilcox, my friend and colleague, about a new book just out from the Maxwell Institute, written by the late Kate Holbrook and titled Both...

  
• 07.17.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #164: How Can We Develop Resilient Belief? Featuring Katie Paxman

  Life is a learning experience, they say. If so, what have you learned from life? Do you know it for sure? Absolutely sure? I’ll confess, this line of questioning leaves me feeling trapped in a mental corner. Is there a...

  
• 06.28.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #163: How Do We Heed God’s Call for Racial Respect? Featuring Joseph Stuart

  Today I’m speaking with Dr. Joseph Stuart, assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University. Dr. Stuart studies race and American religion, and we knew right away that we wanted to talk about Dr. Martin Luther King and the ongoing...

  
• 06.12.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #162: Do We Believe to Explore or to Exploit? Featuring Ryan Davis

  Today on the podcast I talk with Ryan Davis, associate professor of political science at BYU. Dr. Davis is a philosopher, a quick and humorous conversationalist, and a great storyteller. He suggested that there might be a better way to...

  
• 05.16.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #161: How Can We Judge Personal History with Fairness and Charity? Featuring Jenny Pulsipher

  What does it mean to be an objective judge of history--of personal history, family history, or shared human history? Are charity and objectivity opposites--or are they partners? Today on the podcast I talk to Jenny Hale Pulsipher, a professor of...

  
• 04.15.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #160: How Can We Be Effective Stewards of the Earth? Featuring Ben Abbott

  How can we best care for the beautiful planet God has given us for our home? And why do our relationships with other humans matter so much in the work of stewardship and conservation? Today on the podcast, Rosalynde talks...

  
• 03.28.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #159: Why Do We Pray? Featuring Kimberly Matheson

  Meet Rosalynde Frandsen Welch, our new host for the MIPodcast. Rosalynde is the Associate Director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, where she coordinates faculty engagement and co-leads a special research initiative. Her research focuses on Latter-day...

  
• 03.23.2023

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #158: Introduction to The Questions We Should Be Asking with Rosalynde Welch

  Meet Rosalynde Frandsen Welch, our new host for the MIPodcast. Rosalynde is the Associate Director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, where she coordinates faculty engagement and co-leads a special research initiative. Her research focuses on Latter-day...

  
• 12.23.2022

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #157: Latter-day Saints in the French Imagination, with Corry Cropper, Daryl Lee, and Heather Belnap

  In the nineteenth century, a fascination with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made Mormons and Mormonism a common trope in French journalism, art, literature, politics, and popular culture. Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee bring to...

  
• 12.19.2022

  Abide: Christmas

  It’s Christmas! This may feel like an awkward lesson to have in the discussion of the Old Testament, it’s at least how I felt. But in considering the topic more deeply, I can’t think of a better way to prepare...

  
• 12.13.2022

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #156: Finding Christ in the Covenant Path, with Jennifer C. Lane

  Finding Christ in the Covenant Path offers a fresh but faithful focus on the journey of covenants and discipleship through the double lens of ancient words and medieval images. The first part of the book helps us see Christ’s identity...

  
• 12.12.2022

  Abide: Malachi

  The post Abide: Malachi appeared first on Neal A. Maxwell Institute | BYU.

  
• 12.06.2022

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #155: Nostalgia as Jewish Religious Practice, with Rachel B. Gross

  In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City. Visitors to the museum are invited to stand along...

  
• 12.05.2022

  Abide: Haggai and Zechariah

  One of the most interesting days of my life took place a few years ago when I co-conducted a tour of the Jordan River Temple in Utah for non-Latter-day Saint specialists in American religion. As we walked from room to...

  
• 12.04.2022

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #154: The Necessity of God, with Adam S. Miller (2022 Neal A. Maxwell Lecture)

  In Adam S. Miller’s lecture, “The Necessity of God: First person, Present Tense, Imperative Mood” Miller talks about Tim Farnsworth, a man who cannot stop walking from the fictional book The Unnamed. Miller said that everyone has different crosses to bear,...

  
• 11.29.2022

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #153: The Book of Mormon Art Catalog with Jennifer Champoux

  The Book of Mormon Art Catalog seeks to provide unprecedented access to visual imagery inspired by the Book of Mormon through a comprehensive, open access, and searchable digital database. In this role, the Book of Mormon Art Catalog supports research...

  
• 11.28.2022

  Abide: Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah

  The post Abide: Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah appeared first on Neal A. Maxwell Institute | BYU.

  
• 11.21.2022

  Abide: Jonah and Micah

  One of my favorite sermons in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is a sermon delivered by President Hugh B. Brown at BYU. It’s entitled God is the Gardner; I’m confident that many of you...

  
• 11.14.2022

  Abide: Amos and Obadiah

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• 11.07.2022

  Abide: Hosea and Joel

  Throughout the scriptures, the Lord and His prophets teach of covenants, the ability for us to bind ourselves to God through the power of the priesthood. Sometimes, though, we forget that we are also in covenant relationship to those we...

  
• 11.02.2022

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #152: Andrew Jenson and Latter-day Saint History, with Reid L. Neilson and Scott D. Marianno

  Andrew Jenson undertook a lifelong quest to render the LDS historical record complete and comprehensive. As Assistant Church Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jenson tirelessly carried out his office’s archival mission and advocated for fixed...

  
• 10.31.2022

  Abide: Daniel 1-6

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• 10.24.2022

  Abide: Ezekiel 1–3; 33–34; 36–37; 47

  We are blessed to live in a time of prophets. I define this in two ways. The first is that we are fortunate to live in a time where the priesthood has been restored and that the President of the...

  
• 10.18.2022

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #151: The Book of Mormon and Literature Studies, with Rosalynde Frandsen Welch

  Latter-day Saints recognize the Book of Mormon as the “keystone of our religion,” a book that will bring a person closer to Christ than by any other book. How do non-Latter-day Saints read the Book of Mormon, though, especially in...

  
• 10.17.2022

  Abide: Jeremiah and Lamentations Part II

  In last week’s episode, we discussed how Jeremiah introduces ideas about seemingly disparate events, including the apocalyptic here-and-now and the hope of a better future for all of humankind. As we continue into our second episode on Jeremiah, we take...

  
• 10.10.2022

  Abide: Jeremiah Part I

  The post Abide: Jeremiah Part I appeared first on Neal A. Maxwell Institute | BYU.

  
• 10.04.2022

  Maxwell Institute Podcast #150: The Proclaim Peace Conference

  In June 2022, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and the David O. McKay Center for Intercultural Understanding hosted a conference based upon Patrick Mason’s and David Pulsipher’s new book Proclaim Peace: The Restoration’s Answer to an Age of Conflict.  Participants–scholars and...

  
• 10.03.2022

  Abide: Isaiah 58-66

  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 Mormon Studies and a leading scholar of...

  
• 09.20.2022

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

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

  
• 09.19.2022

  Abide: Isaiah 40-49

  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 experience,...

  
• 09.12.2022

  Abide: Isaiah 13-14; 24–30; 35

  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 that “at that moment of great alarm” that...