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Maxwell Institute Podcast

Where faith and scholarship have a nice dinner conversation.

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Total: 243

In June 2022, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and the David O. McKay Center 

Abide: Isaiah 58-66

2022/10/3

Today we are joined by Dr. Joseph Spencer, a philosopher, theologian and Assistant Professor of Anci

Listen to Pastor Derwin Gray and Vicki Gray speak on Derwin’s new book, Healing Our Racial Divide: W

Abide: Isaiah 40-49

2022/9/19

Jesus promises in the Gospel of John that he will not leave us comfortless, but that He will come to

Richard Bushman once told me that “panic precedes revelation.” Dr. Bushman was discussing the proces

Abide: Isaiah 1-12

2022/9/5

Isaiah. Latter-day Saints have a special relationship to this Old Testament prophet. Not only do we

Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs can fall by the wayside when we study them in Sunday S

Kate Holbrook, PhD (1972–2022) was a leading voice in the study of Latter-day Saintwomen and Latter-

Abide: Psalms Part Three

2022/8/22

A book has many lives. It’s thought, it’s edited, it’s printed, it’s reprinted, it’s commentated on

In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation’s sacred religious and legal t

In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation’s sacred religious and legal t

Abide: Psalms Part Two

2022/8/15

One of the first things I tell my students, and that I repeat throughout a semester, is that texts d

Abide: Psalms Part One

2022/8/8

Psalms! There’s over 150 of them marked in the book by the same name in the Old Testament. How can w

Abide: Job

2022/8/4

Job, as a literary and biblical figure, gives us a lot to think about. He goes from riches to rags

In Original Grace, Adam S. Miller proposes an experiment in Restoration thinking: What if instead of

Abide: Esther

2022/7/28

Can one be directed by God when one doesn’t know that one is being directed? The answer, of course,

If an eighteenth-century cleric told you that the difference between “civilization and heathenism

Abide: 2 Kings 17-25

2022/7/14

How do we learn from failure? Especially the end of an organization as large as a kingdom? What if

Abide: 2 Kings 2-7

2022/7/7

Elijah and Elisha are well-known to Latter-day Saints. The prophecy that Elijah would return was for

Abide: 1 Kings 17-19

2022/6/30

Solomon’s reign was glorious, but what he gained in wealth, wives and infrastructure he lost in spi