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One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly, with Ashley Mae Hoiland [MIPodcast #57]
One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly is the latest book in the Maxwell Institute’s Living Faith series. In this episode, author Ashley Mae Hoiland join…
9 years, 11 months ago
Mormons and American politics, with David E. Campbell and J. Quin Monson [MIPodcast #56]
The deep red state of Utah is surprising pundits as the 2016 presidential election approaches. For the first time in over fifty years, the state is p…
10 years ago
American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, with Thomas W. Simpson [MIPodcast #55]
As the twentieth century dawned, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remained at odds with the United States, a country that had provided…
10 years, 1 month ago
The Sin of Certainty, with Peter Enns [MIPodcast #54]
Perhaps you’ve experienced moments of doubt about your religious faith. Or maybe you’re one of the people who find doubt to be a more frequent compan…
10 years, 1 month ago
James L. Kugel on how to read the Bible [MIPodcast #53]
James L. Kugel is one of the foremost scholars of the Hebrew Bible of our time. Kugel recently visited BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute to talk about …
10 years, 2 months ago
Reconceiving infertility in the Bible, with Candida Moss and Joel Baden [MIPodcast #52]
“Be fruitful and multiply.” According to the book of Genesis, these are the first words God speaks to humanity. People have understood these words ov…
10 years, 2 months ago
The Work of the Dead, with Thomas W. Laqueur [MIPodcast #51]
What good is a dead body? How have humans cared for dead bodies through the ages and why do we do it? What do dead bodies tell us about the things we…
10 years, 2 months ago
The Summer Seminar on Mormon Culture, 2015 [MIPodcast #50]
In some ways it’s been a lonelier than usual summer at the Maxwell Institute. Since it was founded in 2006 we’ve had the privilege of hosting the Sum…
10 years, 3 months ago
#49—The unexpected life of Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, with Bruce Gordon [MIPodcast]
When the Protestant Reformer John Calvin published his book Institutes of the Christian Religion in the 1500s, he couldn’t have anticipated the incre…
10 years, 4 months ago
#48—(Almost) all about African American religious history, with Julius H. Bailey [MIPodcast]
What do you know about African American religious history? Julius H. Bailey joins us in this episode to talk about his new overview, Down in the Vall…
10 years, 4 months ago