The Wonder of Scripture Lecture Series: “Seeking Miracles”
“Sometimes we don’t yet understand why the Lord asks us to submit to His will—especially when our plans feel rooted in righteous desires. But in time. . . , it will become clear that His plan was better than ours.”
Laura Padilla-Walker
BYU College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Russel B. Swensen Lecture: “America’s Republics: The Future of Constitutional History”
“Compromise has normally been achieved by people who are willing to knock themselves into a process of debate, even when they come into that process with diametrically opposed and incompatible ideas about what the outcome should be.”
Nicholas Cole
Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Honored Alumni Lecture: “No Man Is an Island: Lessons Learned as a Legislator and Diplomat”
“Not everyone can be a legislator. But all of us, every one of us, can be diplomats and peacemakers in our own relationships and daily interactions.”
Jeff Flake (BA ’86, MA ’87)
former US Ambassador and US Senator
Martin B. Hickman Belonging Lecture: “Cultivating a Community of Belonging: A Native American Focus”
“I would just challenge you. . . to just take a step back and say, . . . ‘What can I do to support you? What can I do to love you?’ versus try[ing] to defend whatever position it is that [you have].”
Gordon Limb
BYU School of Social Work
BYU Devotional: “Fear Not, Little Flock”
“Feeling fear is part of being human. It is not always an indication of weakness or a lack of faith. . . .You don’t have to be perfect to move forward into unknown places and difficult times. You just have to ‘exercise a particle of faith’ and have a ‘desire to believe.’”
Sherami L. Jara
BYU Liberal Arts Advisement & Careers
BYU Devotional: “We Chose This! Agency, Atonement, and Joy”
“Jesus is not ashamed of me or of the fact that I still rely on Him to rescue me. If I keep returning to Him. . ., I can imagine myself standing with Him in the end, sanctified by Him.”
Brennan C. Platt
BYU Economics Department
“Statesmanship in Our Time”
“We need people who will, from time to time, sacrifice what’s in their personal best interests for what’s in the interest of their core values.”
Mitt Romney
former US Senator and US Presidential Nominee
Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture: “Genealogy at America’s Founding”
“The pervasive evidence of genealogy at the founding [of America] shows it at the very infrastructure of law and government, and it was a persistent practice of both great personal meaning and public consequence.”
Karin Wulf
Brown University History Department
Virginia F. Cutler Lecture: “Research as an Intervention: Improving Relationships and Mental Health”
“Research takes time. Pursue your passions and be stubborn.”
Lee Johnson
BYU School of Family Life