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.
About Sheri L. Dew
Sheri Dew is a native of Ulysses, Kansas, and a graduate of Brigham Young University. She is a 40-year veteran of the publishing industry and has authored a number of best-selling books, including the biographies of two presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—President Gordon B. Hinckley and President Ezra Taft Benson, as well as Insights from a Prophet’s Life: Russell M. Nelson. Her most recent book is titled Prophets See Around Corners.
Sheri served as second counselor in the general presidency of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is currently serving as the executive vice president and chief content officer of Deseret Management Corporation.
Sheri is a member of BYU-Hawaii’s Genuine Gold Society, a member of the Marriott School National Advisory Board, a recipient of a medal of honor from the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge, and has spoken at international conclaves such as the World Congress of Families. In March 2003 the White House appointed her as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations.