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Abide: Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
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 …
4 years, 2 months ago
Maxwell Institute Podcast #148: The Weight of Legacy, with Kate Holbrook
Kate Holbrook, PhD (1972–2022) was a leading voice in the study of Latter-day Saintwomen and Latter-day Saint foodways. As managing historian of wome…
4 years, 2 months ago
Abide: Psalms Part Three
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 inf…
4 years, 2 months ago
(Reuploaded) Maxwell Institute Podcast #147: Slavery, Sacred Texts, and Historical Consciousness, with Jordan Watkins
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation’s sacred religious and legal texts – the Bible and the Constitution – to addres…
4 years, 2 months ago
Maxwell Institute Podcast #147: Slavery, Sacred Texts, and Historical Consciousness, with Jordan Watkins
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation’s sacred religious and legal texts – the Bible and the Constitution – to addres…
4 years, 2 months ago
Abide: Psalms Part Two
One of the first things I tell my students, and that I repeat throughout a semester, is that texts do not interpret themselves. Every time a person r…
4 years, 3 months ago
Abide: Psalms Part One
Psalms! There’s over 150 of them marked in the book by the same name in the Old Testament. How can we read them? Are they more useful as a narrative …
4 years, 3 months ago
Abide: Job
Job, as a literary and biblical figure, gives us a lot to think about. He goes from riches to rags to riches again. He loses his family but begins a…
4 years, 3 months ago
Maxwell Institute Podcast #146: God’s Original Grace, with Adam Miller
In Original Grace, Adam S. Miller proposes an experiment in Restoration thinking: What if instead of implicitly affirming the traditional logic of or…
4 years, 3 months ago
Abide: Esther
Can one be directed by God when one doesn’t know that one is being directed? The answer, of course, is yes. We learn about how God directed Esther i…
4 years, 3 months ago