Neal A. Maxwell Institute

Blocklisting at Brigham Young University

By Jana Riess — September 10, 2021
(RNS) — The erasure of historian Benjamin Park's involvement from the Maxwell Institute's website reflects poorly on the institute and on BYU, particularly since he says he hasn't been told why it happened.

A survival guide to the 2020 Book of Mormon “Come Follow Me” curriculum

By Jana Riess — January 24, 2020
While we’re taking out the racist part of the manual that everyone is rightly complaining about, could we just burn down the entire "Come Follow Me" curriculum and start from scratch?

Mormon woman’s memoir tackles cancer, parenting, and ‘the problem we want to have’ in today’s LDS Church

By Jana Riess — June 28, 2019
Melissa Inouye's new memoir "Crossings" is for any Mormon reader who has ever felt marginalized -- which, as she explains, is all of us.

Applications open for Book of Mormon seminar

By Jana Riess — December 7, 2015
One of the coolest things I did this year was an intensive two-week seminar on the Book of Mormon. Now they're taking applications for next summer, when the theme is Alma 12-13.

Mormonism, warts and all

By Jana Riess — December 8, 2014
Paradoxically, Mormons improve our public image when we stop being so concerned with appearing perfect.
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