Maxwell Institute Podcast #183: Remembering President Russell M. Nelson, with Justin Collings (Special Episode)
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In this special episode, Rosalynde Welch converses with Dr. Justin Collings on the ministry of President Russell M. Nelson. Dr. Collings is the academic vice president of Brigham Young University, and the author of the volume Divine Law in our Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants series. We invited him on the podcast in the wake of the prophet’s passing to reflect on what the Nelson ministry meant to him and what it will mean going forward. Join us for his thoughtful perspective on prophetic revelation and the life of President Russell M. Nelson.
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| 0:00.0 | From Brigham Young University's Maxwell Institute, this is the Maxwell Institute podcast, Faith Illuminating Scholarship. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm your host, Rosalind Welch. Today I'm bringing you a conversation with Dr. Justin Collings on the ministry of President Russell M. Nelson. |
| 0:19.8 | If you've read Justin's volume, Divine Law, |
| 0:22.7 | in our themes in the Doctrine and Covenant series, you know that he's thought carefully |
| 0:27.1 | about the relationship between God's law and his living prophets, and he studied the teachings |
| 0:32.8 | of President Nelson deeply in his capacity as BYU's academic vice president. So I invited him on the podcast |
| 0:40.1 | in the wake of the Prophet's passing to reflect on what the Nelson ministry meant to him |
| 0:45.7 | and what it will mean going forward. I'm grateful that Justin took time out of the busy week to talk |
| 0:51.6 | with me and I think you'll be moved by what he has to share. |
| 0:56.1 | Justin Collings, welcome to the Maxwell Institute podcast. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:01.9 | Well, let's dive right in. I would love to know what you judge to be some of the most important |
| 1:08.2 | themes from President Russell M. Nilsson's teaching ministry. |
| 1:13.2 | That is a great and a difficult question. His ministry was so long and so rich and so varied. |
| 1:22.9 | But if I had to try to gather his legacy, his teaching legacy for me, around just a couple of themes. |
| 1:33.3 | Indeed, if I had to choose one theme scripture, it would be 1st Nephi chapter 14, verse 14, |
| 1:41.3 | where Nephi sees a vision of the latter days and the Church of the Lamb of God |
| 1:47.9 | is beleaguered and outnumbered. And then he says, it came to pass that I Nephi beheld that the power |
| 1:56.8 | of the Lamb of God, that it descended upon the saints of the Church of the Lamb of God, and upon the covenant people of the Lamb of God, that it descended upon the saints of the Church of the Lamb of God and upon |
| 2:03.8 | the covenant people of the Lord, and they were armed with righteousness and with the power of God |
| 2:08.8 | and great glory. I might not have gotten that exactly right, but the two main... |
| 2:14.6 | Hazards of memorizing scripture, right? That's right. |
| 2:18.6 | But President Nelson taught us how to be and to become the covenant people of the Lord |
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