from Brigham Young University's Maxwell Institute, this is the Maxwell Institute,

Faith, Illuminating, Scholarship. And we're back. Hello everybody. Welcome to 2025 and a new season of the podcast. I'm Rosalind Welch,

Associate Director and Fellow at the Maxwell Institute and host of this show. We're thrilled to be

back with you for another series of conversations on the questions we should be asking. When and only

when we ask the right questions can we find the answers we need.

But it's not easy to know what to ask, whether we direct the questions to ourselves, to experts,

or urgently to God. Asking good questions is something scholars practice daily. A powerful research question is the foundation of good scholarship.

So this season we'll explore with gospel scholars the questions we should be asking,

the sharper, deeper questions that point us toward what's real.

And as we do that, we want to show you what we're about here at the

Maxwell Institute, our mission, our research initiatives, and the work we hope will serve you.

We'll go deep into our projects on scripture, interfaith understanding, and everyday discipleship

in a changing world. I think you'll get a lot out of it.

In 2024, we dedicated our entire season to the Book of Mormon. I hope you caught all of it,

of course, and we'll go back to revisit your favorites often. In 2025, we'll return to a broader focus for our interviews, but never fear. We'll have

plenty of discussion about the Doctrine and Covenants as we study it together in the global church.

In fact, we'll be kicking off the season with a series of conversations about the Maxwell

Institute's newest book series co-published with Deseret

book, which we've called Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants. We're thrilled to launch

these seven new volumes, each authored by a different scholar and covering a different doctrinal

theme. Many of you are familiar with the Maxwell Institute's brief theological introductions to the

Book of Mormon, which we published in 2020. We heard from so many readers that the short and

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