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Maxwell Institute Podcast

Where faith and scholarship have a nice dinner conversation.

Episodes

Total: 255

As the twentieth century dawned, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remained at odds wi

Perhaps you’ve experienced moments of doubt about your religious faith. Or maybe you’re one of the p

James L. Kugel is one of the foremost scholars of the Hebrew Bible of our time. Kugel recently visit

“Be fruitful and multiply.” According to the book of Genesis, these are the first words God speaks t

What good is a dead body? How have humans cared for dead bodies through the ages and why do we do it

In some ways it’s been a lonelier than usual summer at the Maxwell Institute. Since it was founded i

When the Protestant Reformer John Calvin published his book Institutes of the Christian Religion in

What do you know about African American religious history? Julius H. Bailey joins us in this episode

If you surveyed Americans, asking them to identify themselves as: A) Catholic B) Muslim C) Evangelic

The New York Times Review of Books says Marilynne Robinson “is not like any other writer. She has cr

Why was it virtually impossible not to believe in God in, say, 15

Even if you’ve never heard of a Christian movement scholars call “the prosperity gospel,” chances a

C. S. Lewis died in 1963 on the same day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Before the decade was ove

In the land of Israel, rain falls during a single, crucial, season of the year beginning in October

In the last episode we heard from three editors of a new book of Relief Society documents published