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Spring/summer 2025 devotional and forum schedule

By Bitsy Tullis
April 23, 2025
Every Tuesday at 11:05 a.m., students, faculty, staff and the greater BYU community attend the weekly devotional or forum address. Unless specifically marked below, the devotionals and forums will be held in the BYU Marriott Center.
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Intellect

Forum: Religion’s surprising impact on academic success

By Bitsy Tullis
March 25, 2025
“I know that your faith isn’t something you practice only on Sundays — it influences your daily decisions, your work ethic and your vision for the future,” expressed Ilana M. Horwitz in her forum address at Brigham Young University.
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Intellect

Forum: Why institutions matter

By Bitsy Tullis
February 25, 2025
“The answer comes down to each of us — even to you, as students here in this university,” expressed Yuval Levin in his forum address at the BYU Marriott Center.
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Intellect

Forum: “The Pursuit of happiness”

By Abigail Haven
January 28, 2025
Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, spoke to BYU students and employees at the Marriott Center in this week’s forum address. He emphasized the importance of self-improvement through the pursuit of virtue.
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Events

Winter 2025 devotional and forum schedule

December 16, 2024
Plan to join students and employees each Tuesday at 11:05 a.m. in the Marriott Center for a truly unique experience as the campus gathers to receive spiritual and temporal edification.
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Intellect

Forum: Making strong families a national priority

By Bitsy Tullis
November 19, 2024
In her forum address at the Marriott Center, Kearney spoke on the importance of marriage and family, emphasizing the positive economic and personal impact it has.
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Faith

Forum: Dallas Jenkins

By Abigail Haven
October 29, 2024
Dallas Jenkins, creator, producer, director and writer of “The Chosen,” delivered Tuesday’s forum address, focusing on overcoming failure and being submissive to God’s will.
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Intellect

Forum: “Why America went crazy and how you can stay sane”

By Abigail Haven
September 24, 2024
David French, columnist for The New York Times and bestselling author, spoke to BYU students and employees in this week’s forum address at the BYU Marriott Center. He invited the audience to build unity with people they disagree with through friendship, connection and love.
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Events

Fall 2024 devotional and forum schedule

August 26, 2024
Every Tuesday at 11:05 a.m., students, faculty, staff and the greater BYU community attend the weekly devotional or forum address in the BYU Marriott Center.
8 Min Read
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Faith

Forum: Becoming a disciple-leader

By Bitsy Tullis
July 30, 2024
Kim Clark, the NAC distinguished professor of management at the Marriott School of Business, delivered Tuesday’s forum address on campus. He provided an in-depth look at the importance of becoming “disciple-leaders.”
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Character

Cougar Query: Kim Clark

July 29, 2024
Cougar Queries is a series of profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life.
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Intellect

Forum: Great temples of learning on temple hill

By Christie Allen
May 21, 2024
Just as temple worship fortifies us to accomplish spiritual tasks, the academic “temples” of BYU campus give us light and power to serve others through knowledge, taught BYU plant and wildlife sciences professor Rick Jellen in the Distinguished Faculty Lecture at Tuesday’s forum.
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Spring + summer 2024 devotional and forum schedule

April 23, 2024
Every Tuesday at 11:05 a.m., students, faculty, staff and the greater BYU community attend the weekly devotional or forum address. Unless specifically marked below, the devotionals and forums will be held in the BYU Marriott Center.
8 Min Read
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Intellect

Forum: How to be a confident pluralist

By Christie Allen
March 26, 2024
In a democracy where people hold many conflicting views, how do we each honor our own values while making decisions together? Grappling with that question in Tuesday’s forum address, Harvard professor Danielle Allen encouraged her audience to meet this challenge by becoming “confident pluralists.”
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Intellect

Forum: The value of faith in your education

By Christie Allen
February 27, 2024
“Tell your story and your journey, not to say that you’re so great, but rather to say, you are so blessed,” taught Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, president emeritus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in Tuesday’s forum.
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Intellect

Forum: The (costly) arc of religious freedom

By Christie Allen
January 30, 2024
In Tuesday’s forum, Harvard law professor Ruth Okediji explored a paradox: the stronger a nation’s commitment to religious freedom, the less a faithful presence Christians feel they can have in secular society.
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Intellect

Forum: Mammon or marriage?

By Christie Allen
November 28, 2023
The 21st-century American trend to prioritize career, money and personal freedom over marriage is deeply misguided, argued W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, in Tuesday’s forum.
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Faith

Forum: Fulfilling the dream of BYU

By Christie Allen
October 31, 2023
At BYU, “we have the great privilege of an education for our whole souls,” said Susan Tanner, former Young Women General President, in Tuesday’s forum. Sister Tanner and her husband, former BYU–Hawaii president John Tanner, delivered a joint address on BYU’s ambitious mission.
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