Additional resources to aid you as you seek learning by study and faith.
While we are not explicitly related to the following organizations or individuals, we find them to be important resources to help you seek.
From the Desk
From the Desk: Learning by Study and Faith is an online epicenter of history and religion. We specialize in making scholarly research accessible to everyday readers, giving special attention to Latter-day Saint history. For example, we frequently update articles about Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Our content includes a wide variety of history and religion content, and has been read by millions of readers in hundreds of publications across the world.
Y Religion
Each year, Brigham Young University Religious Education professors produce hundreds of publications on subjects related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This podcast brings this research into one place to enlighten the everyday seeker of truth. Interviewing the author, we discuss why the study was done, why it matters, and why the professor chooses to be both a scholar, and a disciple. This is Y Religion.
Wilford Woodruff Papers
Our mission, by 2027, is to digitally preserve and publish Wilford Woodruff’s eyewitness account of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ from 1833 to 1898. Our purpose in making Wilford Woodruff’s faithful records universally accessible is to inspire all people, especially the rising generation, to study and increase their faith in Jesus Christ, understand and honor sacred temple covenants, and thereby receive the blessings of exaltation with their families.
Doctrine and Covenants Contexts
D&C Contexts provides backgrounds to each section in the Doctrine and Covenants. Historian Steven C. Harper explores the historical background, personal struggles, theological questions, and spiritual yearnings behind each of these sacred revelations. This section-by-section commentary is written in short, digestible segments that will help readers draw closer to the characters in the Doctrine and Covenants and to their Savior, Jesus Christ.
Scripture Citation Index
The Scripture Citation index was first created in paper form by Richard Galbraith while serving as a faculty member at BYU (now emeritus). The index was made into a web site and corresponding mobile apps by Stephen Liddle, also a BYU faculty member. We've had help from many great BYU students through the years working on various aspects of this project. We appreciate the help of our research assistants, particularly Brad Humphery, Jeremy Knudsen, Allan Bond, Will Jensen, James Anderson, Dan King, Thomas Packer, Rosie Liddle Sadler, and James Delorey, who have been instrumental in building the database and programming elements of this site. Brandon Petersen is the graphics designer who created the art work shown at the top of this panel. We also gratefully acknowledge funding provided by the Rollins Center at BYU.
Maxwell Institute
The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship both gathers and nurtures disciple-scholars. As a research community, the Institute supports scholars whose work inspires and fortifies Latter-day Saints in their testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and engages the world of religious ideas.
Religious Studies Center
The Religious Studies Center began as the research and publishing arm of Religious Education at Brigham Young University. It was established in 1975 under the direction of Dean Jeffrey R. Holland. Watch a video of Elder Holland and others describing the history of the RSC. Our mission is to encourage, sponsor, and publish serious, faithful, gospel-related materials. We encourage authors to submit their research for publication. We publish and market high-quality religious books and periodicals of both an academic and devotional nature. Our goal is to promote greater understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ and its importance in the lives of Latter-day Saints. We have published groundbreaking works on Latter-day Saint culture and history as well as in-depth studies dealing with scripture and doctrine.
The Grounded Podcast with Dr. Barbara Morgan Gardner
Welcome to Grounded, where women and men of all ages, nationalities, and backgrounds gather together with me, Dr. Barbara Morgan Gardner and my guests as we strive to build a bedrock understanding of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and become more like him.
Book of Mormon Art Catalog
The Book of Mormon Art Catalog is an open access digital database of visual artwork inspired by the Book of Mormon, Church History, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price from the earliest 19th-century images to the present. It is a comprehensive resource, bringing together for the first time artwork from a range of public and private collections, museums, and the collections of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including some artwork that is not posted elsewhere. The Book of Mormon Art Catalog was created and is directed by Jennifer Champoux and made possible by generous support from the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies, part of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University.
BH Roberts Foundation
The B. H. Roberts Foundation (BHR) is a 501c3 non-profit corporation that supports education and research related to the culture, doctrine, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. BHR has a bias toward faith and believes that open research can support a healthy, mature and justified belief in the gospel. The foundation supports various projects including an archival database of primary sources related to difficult topics in Mormonism, original research articles, and research grants for academic and independent researchers and artists. BHR is staffed by fulltime and part-time researchers and content creators, as well as the occasional intern. Josh Coates is the Executive Director at BHR. Josh studied large scale parallel systems at the University of California, Berkeley and spent over twenty years in the data storage and edtech industries.
Follow Him with John Bytheway and Hank Smith
Welcome to followHIM, a weekly podcast dedicated to helping individuals and families to come unto Christ with the Come, Follow Me Curriculum. We are Hank Smith and John Bytheway. We love to learn. We love to laugh. We want to learn and laugh with you as together we follow HIM.
Brigham Young Papers
In April 1832, as Brigham Young sat wet after his baptism and ordination to the office of elder in the newly restored Church of Christ, a fire began to blaze within him. “I wanted to thunder and roar out the Gospel to the nations,” he recalled. “I had to go out and preach, lest my bones should consume within me.” The same impulse that spurred him to preach far and wide for years prompted him to begin a journal to preserve a record of those labors. This first volume of The Brigham Young Journals presents Young’s pre-Utah journals, which include three written in his own hand (1832 to 1845) and his Nauvoo office journal kept by clerks (1844–1846). Despite some substantial gaps, both records afford unique glimpses into Young’s life and ministry as well as matters of moment —both triumphant and turbulent—in early Church history. This first volume, produced under the imprimatur of BYU Press, comes from a research team of editors of The Joseph Smith Papers. It features frequent editorial overviews, minimal use of transcription symbols, extensive annotation, detailed physical descriptions of each journal, and photographs. Reference material includes maps, a chronology, and trip itineraries. The verbatim transcriptions reproduced herein show Brigham Young to be a tireless missionary, devoted family man, and able Church leader in the making.
SquareTwo
The purpose of SquareTwo is to develop the finest online journal of thought based on the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ (RGJC) concerning the important issues of the world today, whether those be international issues, domestic issues, ethical issues, technological issues, etc. There are not many fora for serious scholarship based on the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the few existing outlets have their own priorities that preclude the publication of many fine works. Consider SquareTwo as an option for thoughtful RGJC scholarship and commentary. SquareTwo aims to web-publish insightful, well-written, well-referenced scholarship and commentary informed by an RGJC perspective. A small section for doctrinal scholarship/commentary is included, but issues concerning RCJC doctrine are not the main focus of SquareTwo.