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Three Renowned LDS Scholars Featured at Second Widtsoe Symposium

Our second symposium took place on September 24th and featured world-renowned LDS scholars Grant Hardy, Eric Huntsman and Noel Reynolds...

The John A. Widtsoe Foundation: Expanding the Global Reach of LDS Scholarship in Association

Dr. John A. Widtsoe was a preeminent scholar, university president and LDS Church Apostle, and the first Mormon scholar to be invited to...

The (To Be Named) Center for Religious and Family Life -- The John A. Widtsoe Scholars Center

The Foundation is currently negotiating with the owners of a property directly across from USC’s soon to be completed $1 billion campus...

Temples and Sacred Spaces Global Conference

The Foundation, in association with the USC Office of Religious Life and the Temple Studies Academy is proud to announce the global...

Encyclopedia of Mormonism

The Widtsoe Foundation is preparing to be named as the home for the completely revised and redesigned 25-year-old Encyclopedia, which...

Widtsoe Sponsored Initiatives

In the year since the inaugural event, the Widtsoe Foundation has made tremendous progress in assembling a global set of initiatives to...

New Testament Commentary

The 16-volume BYU New Testament Commentary seeks to illuminate the historical, cultural, linguistic and doctrinal heritage of each book...

Book of Mormon Central

Book of Mormon Central is one of the most acclaimed LDS initiatives of the decade. It is an independent group of LDS scholars affiliated...

Dr. John W. Welch, BYU law professor, has been appointed Widtsoe Distinguished Scholar

Dr. Welch is the Robert K. Thomas Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, where he teaches courses on Joseph Smith and the...

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf Launches the Widtsoe Foundation and Endowed Chair at USC

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf delivered the historic inaugural Keynote Speech at the John A. Widtsoe Symposium at USC last April. It was...

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