The Mormon Archipelago

(Re)writing the Bible in Antiquity and Today @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  CANON The New Testament writers and early Church Fathers used the Septuagint (LXX) for...

George P. Lee, First Lamanite 70, Dies @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  I feel like I’m the bearer of bad news lately. It has come to my attention that...

Increasing Member Retention, Part 2 The Evangelical Way @ New Cool Thang
  -  In the spirit of the 13th Article of Faith, I would like to spend some time looking at...

Peggy Pascoe, RIP (1954-2010) @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  Peggy Pascoe, a leading historian of sexuality, gender and race relations in the...

The Saints of San Antonio: A Video History in Their Own Words @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  A friend alerted me not too long ago to an effort by a local in San Antonio, Texas to...

Announcing “Scholaristas”: A new blog exploring women’s religious history @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  As promised, former JI blogger Elizabeth has teamed up with two other bright and...

The Hierarchy of Truth @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  Narratives wield a power measured not in historical accuracy but in effect on the reader....

Welcome Guest Blogger: Enoch @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  We’d like to welcome Enoch as our latest guest blogger! Enoch holds and/or is...

Call for Papers: 3rd Biennial Faith and Knowledge Conference @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  “The Intellectual Prospects for Mormonism”: The Third Biennial Faith and Knowledge...

Problematizing the Reformation: Sola Scriptura and Cessation @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  Desidrius Erasmus was the most learned man of his day and in the spirit of the...

Banner of Heaven Retrospective Post Mortem: What Does It All Mean? @ Nine Moons
  -  I really enjoyed the Banner of Heaven retrospective that Scott B at BCC put together...

Elder Jensen Spends Pioneer Day Address Talking About—Indians?! @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  Read more here. Without the full text* it is hard to assess the totality of what Elder...

Increasing Member Retention, Part1 The Problem with the Current Model @ New Cool Thang
  -  Two years ago, we were told our ward was the top baptizing ward in the top baptizing...

Pioneer Day and Remembering/Forgetting Utah’s Indian Wars @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  On Pioneer Day in 1941, the Provo branch of the Sons and Daughters of the Utah Pioneers...

Two New Sites @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   I added a couple of new sites to the blogroll. First, the new Eugene England site, which...

A Student Comment on Social Justice, Rawls, and Chris H. @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  Professor H, A student in your Political Philosophy course asked that these comments be...

Best LDS Biographies @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  For my nightly and Sunday reading, I’ve recently decided to read academic...

Tips on landing a job in religion, #2 @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  Next up, and perhaps the last for a while, is Taylor P. He writes: I received a ThD in...

Mormonism and the Documentary Hypothesis @ New Cool Thang
  -  On the one hand, it seems like Mormons are uniquely primed to accept the Documentary...

You Need To Speak Better. I Don’t Know, You Figure It Out. @ Nine Moons
  -  I love top-5 lists as much as anyone, but this post only serves up the problems without...

[Updated] Journal of Mormon History, 36:3 (Summer 2010), Part 1 @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  The newest issue of the JMH is here. Since I don’t have a lot of time, I’ll...

A Hospital for Those Infected with Ph.D. @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  Most of my advisors tell me something to the effect that they don’t know any PhD...

Socrates, The Crito, and Me: On being a Ute @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  In Plato’s dialogue Crito, Socrates tells his friend Crito that he cannot flee his...

Some more on true/false and academic responsibility (a.k.a. intellectual honesty) @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  *As will soon become apparent, I have been influenced by several posts of late. You might...

Tips on landing a job in religion, #1 @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  So you managed to get into a graduate program. Now what? As a continuation of the Tips on...

Need Doctrinal Help! @ Nine Moons
  -  My brother sent me this email – I thought maybe some of you had some thoughts and...

Happy Bastille Day! @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -   There’s no bread, let them eat cake There’s no end to what they’ll...

Laziness Is Next To Godliness @ Nine Moons
  -  I was yelled at early this morning by a fellow runner. Running at me. Uphill. Something...

Happiness is a Warm ____________ @ Nine Moons
  -  I have a confession to make: I don’t like the moniker, “The Plan of...

Loyalty Is Not a Virtue @ New Cool Thang
  -  The subject of loyalty came up over at a recent Bloggernacle Times thread. Jacob J...

Survey Results Part 7- Wrap Up @ New Cool Thang
  -  Well, I had a few more things I could have done with the data, but time got the best of...

You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out, Kid. @ Nine Moons
  -  A friend shared a story with me yesterday about his favorite uncle that left me both...

Beautiful Smart People May Have Bad Genes @ Nine Moons
  -  When people talk about someone having or passing on “good” genes they are usually...

Based on Actual Events. No, Really. @ Nine Moons
  -  Since Vincent Price fell out of the window 70 years ago, I’m thinking now is...

Inoculation Works @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   I finally picked up and read a copy of Simon Southerton's Losing a Lost Tribe: Native...

A Response to Blake’s Critique of My Atonement Paper @ New Cool Thang
  -  Blake has a relatively new paper up on his site called “Atonement in Mormon Thought...

All Time Best Speeches @ Nine Moons
  -  I have a top five list of all time best… well, I have a top five list for pretty...

Survey Results Part 6- Atonement, the Popular Vote @ New Cool Thang
  -  Continued from here. For the full series click here. So I was a little surprised by this...

College Conference Realignment Gone Wild! @ New Cool Thang
  -  The dominoes have officially begun to fall folks. Colorado just officially announced that...

Double earrings? No. Tattoos? No. Large fake boobs? Si! @ New Cool Thang
  -  Alright I know posting on something like this is a cheap way to drive traffic and...

What’s Your Biggest Surprise? @ Nine Moons
  -  We’ve all had surprises, good and bad. Rusty and his wife Sara just set up one of...

Survey Results Part 5- Gender Studies @ New Cool Thang
  -  Continued from here. For those of you who are new, click here for the entire series....

Review: Losing My Religion @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   I admit that when approaching William Lobdell's Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith...

Beliefs and Causes @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   Beliefs are complicated and sometimes strangely resistant to facts. I don't mean...

The Paternity Leave Trend @ a bird's eye view
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Goethe’s Wandrer’s Nachtlied II (Wayfarer’s Evensong II) @ a bird's eye view
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Winds of Change at JRCLS? @ a bird's eye view
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Criminal Possession of a . . . Snowball?!? @ a bird's eye view
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Blind-Sided By The Blind Side @ a bird's eye view
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Sleep, Success, and Seminary @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   Sleep: it's more important than you think, especially for teenagers. Here's from George...

Revisiting the “Temple Worthiness” Requirement for LDS Employees @ a bird's eye view
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A Personal Update @ a bird's eye view
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Genesis and Genre @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   When we read Genesis, what exactly are we reading? The distinctions and categories we...

Lineage: A Troubling Concept @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   Here's a quote from Lesson 7, "The Abrahamic Covenant," that caught my attention in...

Big Orange is Back @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   For reasons known only to that composite persona known as "BT Editors," The Bloggernacle...

Mormons and Prosperity @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   The Prosperity Gospel (which the linked Wikipedia article defines as "the notion that...

Here, Have a Niblet @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   Mormon Matters is hosting the 2009 Niblets event. Vote here. DMI was nominated in three...

The Deuteronomist @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   Last week I posted on Josiah's religious reforms, which were apparently motivated by the...

You Make the Call: Dave, Jay, or Conan @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   So let's try a lighter post: the late night television wars. This is one war America can...

The Exile and the Beginning of the Old Testament @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   One would think that the best way to understand the Old Testament is to start at the...

2009 Blog Year in Review ... and What's Ahead For 2010 @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   I posted at Beliefnet and T&S for most of the year, so the 16 posts in my Greatest Hits...

Underwhelming Thoughts on Correlation @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   I confess that I am not a regular reader of the Church News, but I did happen to run...

Scriptural Transmission: Adding or Taking Away? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   Recently I've seen several Bloggernacle posts kicking off discussion of the Old...

Good Thoughts on Teaching Sunday School @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   My second-favorite group blog recently posted a series on what's wrong with Sunday...

You Make the Call: What Is an Unorthodox Mormon? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   Breaking news at NCT, which claims that "[LDS] leadership is worried about a growing...

The Ethical Jesus @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   Last month I posted The Apocalyptic Jesus, summarizing Bart Ehrman's view of Jesus as a...

Armstrong on the Emergence of Torah and Scripture @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   I recently read through Karen Armstrong's The Bible: A Biography (2007). The first two...

On Bulwarks this Thanksgiving @ a bird's eye view
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2010 Conference, Call for Papers & Conference Details @ EMSA
  -   The European Mormon Studies Association Annual Conference 2010 15-16 July 2010 Tilburg...

Dinner at Terrazza Solferino @ EMSA
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“By his grace ye may be perfect in Christ”: Some LDS thoughts on Grace and Commandments @ a bird's eye view
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A Pioneer Day Reflection on Americana at the Salt Lake Tabernacle @ a bird's eye view
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Programme and Registration @ EMSA
  -  The European Mormon Studies Association Annual Conference Organized together with the...

Turin Details @ EMSA
  -  The CFP remains open for a little while longer. We will announce the full programme in...

2009 Conference, Call for Papers @ EMSA
  -  The European Mormon Studies Association Annual Conference Organized together with Massimo...

Mormonism’s Last Colonizer @ Splendid Sun
  -  This week, Utah State University Press released a biography of William H. Smart. Smart...

“knowledge, and power, by revelation” @ Splendid Sun
  -  A month ago I came home from teaching seminary and I was met by my wife. She told me to...

A quick review of the Turku conference @ EMSA
  -  Many thanks to all those who came and contributed to this year’s conference. Special...

A Textual History of the KFD, Part II @ Splendid Sun
  -  This post is a direct continuation of Part I and follows without introduction. The...

A Textual History of the KFD, Part I: Sources to the “History of Joseph Smith” @ Splendid Sun
  -  Part II of the series is available here. EDITORIAL NOTE: This post contains links to...

The end of an era @ Splendid Sun
  -  I am a chemist by training, but Mormon history has always been open to dilettants (for...

EMSA Conference 2008, Programme and Instructions @ EMSA
  -  The European Mormon Studies Association Annual Conference: 21-22 August 2008 Organized...

Research update on Mormon healing @ Splendid Sun
  -  As some know, Kris and I have worked together for the past couple of years doing research...

Two latest in Signature’s Significant Diary Series @ Splendid Sun
  -  John P. Hatch, ed., Danish Apostle: The Diaries of Anthon H. Lund (Salt Lake City,...

A Lady’s Life among the Mormons @ Splendid Sun
  -  One of the most invaluable publication series in Mormon Studies is Utah State University...

Elder Ballard’s Advice–Start a Blog @ Splendid Sun
  -  I haven’t written for a while, and now I feel remiss. Today was graduation day at...

EMSA Conference 2008, Call for Papers @ EMSA
  -  The European Mormon Studies Association Annual Conference Organized together with the...

Thanksgiving among the Mormons @ Splendid Sun
  -  Perhaps as we celebrate our feasts we will give thanks for our co-religionists who...

Worcester Conference @ EMSA
  -  Many thanks are due to all those who made the inaugural EMSA conference such a resounding...

Final Details @ EMSA
  -  Programme here. Venue: University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, WR2 6AJ. Leave extra time...