Welcome to the Maxwell Institute podcast. I'm Joseph Stewart.

In June 2022, the Nealei Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University,

and the David O. McKay Center for Intercultural Understanding at BYU,

hosted a conference based on Patrick Mason's and David Pulpher's new book, Proclaim Peace,

the Restoration's Answer to an age of conflict.

Participants, scholars and non-scholars alike, reflected together on the interpersonal, ethical, and social dimensions of Christian discipleship, and the search for peace in non-Christian traditions.

We are giving you one of the sessions here on audio, but you can find all of the

sessions on video on the Maxwell Institute's YouTube channel, which we will also link to in the show

notes. You can receive the newsletter by signing up for it at m.byu.edu slash monthly dash

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The first speaker you'll hear from is Dr. Isaiah Walker, who is currently academic vice president and professor and department chair in the history department at BYU, where he

teaches world, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islands history.

Aloha.

I know you've already heard for me yesterday, so I'll keep it short and a little less formal.

But I do want to again welcome you to campus, to be Hawaii.

And again, as I mentioned yesterday, I want to reiterate that our campus is been a place where

we've always had peace at the forefront of our mission.

And so the fact that we have this conference here really is helpful and it really augments

our purpose and our mission here at B.O.E. Hawaii. Last time yesterday I talked a bit about

the establishment of the school and this mission that David O. McKay had. But actually, Laie as a place, I've heard

quite a bit actually people mentioning that they feel this real kind of cool vibe here. There's

a real cool spirit that takes place here. This actually predates, in fact, not only David

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