The 2025 Truman G. Madsen lecture, Eternal Man and the Power of Identity, will be given by Sheri Dew, the CEO of Deseret Book Company.
The restored gospel of Jesus Christ answers questions about who we are and who we can become that philosophers and scholars have grappled with since the beginning of time.
Truman G. Madsen was a renowned philosopher, teacher, and biographer and regarded as one of the greatest LDS thinkers of our time. One of his goals as a founding senior fellow of the Wheatley Institute was to bring academic experts and civic leaders “to the fire” at BYU.
In honor of this goal, the Madsen Lecture on Eternal Man series feature leading scholars of faith, who are oftentimes not LDS themselves, giving them opportunities to discuss their work on the foundational relationship between faith and reason.