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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 non-scholars alike–reflected together on the interpersonal, ethical, and social dimensions of Christian discipleship and the search for peace in non-Christian traditions. 

You can hear Professors Mason and Pulsipher discuss Proclaim Peace on the Maxwell Institute Podcast HERE.

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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 the Book of Mormon. He is a prolific author, and among his recent works are The Vision of All: Twenty-five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record (Kofford, 2016) and 1st Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction, published by the Maxwell Institute in 2020. He has recently completed a monograph on Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, which is currently under review with Oxford University Press.

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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

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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, though, that isn’t at the first instance of pain, whether it’s physical, mental, spiritual, or emotional. God asks us to find answers, to knock, to work and watch and fight and pray with all our might and zeal. How do we do that? And how can we think about being comforted by the Divine while also knowing that divine lessons often come in the pursuit of finding that comfort? We’ll discuss that and much more on today’s episode of “Abide: A Maxwell Institute Podcast.”

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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 the Father and Son appeared to the boy prophet). While reading, Isaiah, though, I think that the same can be said for Isaiah. He lived in difficult times, with wars, rumors of wars, and the horrors that accompany them. How did he care for his people? How do his revelations affect Latter-day Saints today? We’ll discuss that, and much more, on today’s episode of Abide: A Maxwell Institute Podcast.

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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 Lehi’s family to the Americas. How do we think about Isaiah? What should we know about the construction of the book of Isaiah? We discuss this, and much more, on this episode of Abide: A Maxwell Institute Podcast.

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs can fall by the wayside when we study them in Sunday School. They don’t always fit into the narratives that we understand about dispensations of authority or give us sustained treatises in the way that a theologian might consider during personal scripture study. However, in preparing for this week, our team recognized the value of these books and understanding the literary, doctrinal, and other beauties that accompany these books. We’ll discuss these topics, and much more, in today’s episode of “Abide: A Maxwell Institute Podcast.”

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Kate Holbrook, PhD (1972–2022) was a leading voice in the study of Latter-day Saint
women and Latter-day Saint foodways. As managing historian of women’s history at
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints history department, she wrote, studied,
and interpreted history full-time. Her major research interests were religion, gender,
and food. Her primary professional activity was to discover, encourage, and celebrate
women’s flourishing in the scholarly and spiritual realms.

A popular public speaker, Kate was voted Harvard College’s Teaching Fellow of the
Year for her work as head teaching fellow in a course that enrolled nearly six hundred
students, and she co-edited Global Values 101: A Short Course (Beacon Press, 2006),
based on that class. In 2012, Kate co-organized a conference entitled “Women and the
LDS Church: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.” She and her co-organizer,
Matthew Bowman, edited a collection of essays that sprang from this conference
entitled Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Kate has
also published essays and book chapters about Latter-day Saint women and
housework, Nation of Islam Muslims, Latter-day Saints and food, religion and
sexuality, and religious hunting rituals.

Kate grew up at the feet of the Rocky Mountains and returned there in 2006, to live
among the historic sites, cultural currents, and food environments where her
scholarship had its roots. She earned a BA in English and Russian literature from
Brigham Young University, an MTS from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD in
Religious Studies from Boston University. For her dissertation work on Latter-day Saint
and Nation of Islam foodways, she was the first recipient of the Eccles Fellowship in
Mormon Studies at the University of Utah. She was proud wife (to Samuel Brown) and
mother (to Amelia, Lucia, and Persephone Holbrook-Brown).

Kate and her family developed this endowment together. It was Kate’s wish as she
departed mortality that these funds serve to help the women of the Church to flourish

in their scholarly and spiritual lives. Kate herself benefited from a similar gift (from
Ruth Silver of Denver, Colorado) early in her scholarly career, when she and Sam had
minimal financial resources, and she needed time and money to devote to the study of
women and religion. She hoped that such giving would become more and more
common over time.

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A book has many lives. It’s thought, it’s edited, it’s printed, it’s reprinted, it’s commentated on, and this repeats, if the book merits it, ad infinitum. This is certainly true for the Bible as a whole, but, I suggest, for the Psalms in particular. How do we think about Psalms as an ancient text conveyed for a modern people?

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