The Mormon Archipelago
Who We Lost: Part 209 @ Keepapitchinin
- Who We Lost; 209
Who We Lost: Part 208 @ Keepapitchinin
- Who We Lost: 208
Saturday Funnies, 1923 (3) @ Keepapitchinin
- Whew! “Where is the onion counter?” “Three sniffs to the right.” Stung! Jackie...
2021 Awards and Funding from the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies @ Juvenile Instructor
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Applications are due March 15, 2021.The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies is...
Joseph Smith Papers Conference Call for Papers 2021 @ Juvenile Instructor
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See original post HERE
To commemorate the upcoming completion of the...
Saturday Funnies, 1860 @ Keepapitchinin
- A young rogue accidentally broke a pane in a window, and attempted as fast as he could to...
Who We Lost: Part 207 @ Keepapitchinin
- Who We Lost: 207
Call for Submissions: Special Issue of *RELIGIONS* on Latter-day Saint Theology and the Environment @ Juvenile Instructor
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George Handley, Kristen Blair, and Anna Thurston are guest editing a special issue of...
Call for Nominations: John Whitmer Historical Association 2021 Awards @ Juvenile Instructor
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Thanks to friend-of-JI Katherine Pollock for passing this on!
This is a call for...
Who We Lost: Part 206 @ Keepapitchinin
- Who We Lost: 206
Saturday Funnies, 1937 (5) @ Keepapitchinin
- No Answer to This “H’m,” the publisher murmured. “Your handwriting’s so...
Who We Lost: Part 205 @ Keepapitchinin
- Who We Lost; 205
You have been listening to the Tabernacle Choir and Organ Broadcast, 4 October 1970 @ Keepapitchinin
- Choir and Organ
Saturday Funnies, 1906 @ Keepapitchinin
- Today’s jokes come from the pages of the Millennial Star, where they were tucked into...
The Deseret News took a cheap shot at a Latter-day Saint Historian. Here’s what it got wrong. @ Juvenile Instructor
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Writing in the Deseret News this morning, my BYU colleague Hal Boyd offered his...
Job Ad: Internship with LDS Church History Department @ Juvenile Instructor
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Searching for sources in digitized archives @ Juvenile Instructor
- First off, I think that it is extremely important to grind through primary sources. You...
Review: Anthony Sweat, Repicturing the Restoration (BYU Religious Studies Center, 2020) @ Juvenile Instructor
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Because Repicturing the Restoration is primarily aimed at Latter-day Saint students,...
2021: Forthcoming Books in Mormon history and Mormon studies @ Juvenile Instructor
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2021 looks to be a bumper year for Mormon history and Mormon studies! Start your...
Call for Submissions: Restoration Studies Journal @ Juvenile Instructor
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Thanks to friend-of-JI Katherine Pollock for sending this to us!
Call for...
John Gee’s Book is only a Symptom of Serious Intellectual Disease at BYU @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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A few recent posts have called attention to a deeply problematic, unethical, and even...
Sensationalism? Nauvoo and the Angst of Tradition @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Book reviews, especially as done back and forth among the academic community, are not...
The Problem of Claiming Liberal Bias in Biblical and Mormon Scholarship @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Blake Ostler’s 1987 essay on the Book of Mormon as a modern expansion, by Joseph...
The Curious Announcement of Donald Parry’s Editorship for Biblia Hebraica Quinta @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Back in 2009 BYU University Communications announced that Donald W. Parry, professor of...
Rel Ed Faculty Who Fail to Launch @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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There is a curious rash of legitimate PhD holding, BYU Rel Ed faculty whose professional...
BYU Religious Education’s Investment in Its Students @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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A major theme over the years at the Faith Promoting Rumor blog has been the department...
Take 2: Blumell, New Testament History, Culture and Society @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Review of Lincoln H. Blumell, ed., New Testament History, Culture, and Society (Provo...
The BYU Honor Code Office and the Idea of Reasonableness @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Those aware of the similarities and differences between Brigham Young University-Provo...
The Interpreter Stumbles over the JSPP @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Since it’s inception (at Olive Garden ;>) in 2012 the Interpreter has published an...
Early Anglo-American and British Descriptions of Native American Skin Color: Updating a Recent Paper @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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The Book of Mormon Studies Association is soon going to host its third annual...
Teaching the Old Testament: An Official Statement About Interpretation @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The course of study for LDS Gospel Doctrine classes for 2018 is the Old Testament, which...
Fiction and History @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- I'll give you a couple of book discussions after one short paragraph on fiction and...
What the LDS Can Learn From the NFL @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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It has been a tough year for the NFL. Football is a sport; the NFL is a brand. After...
The Brigham Option: Living in a Post-Christian Nation @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I have heard a lot about Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in...
Review of Perspectives on Mormon Theology: Apologetics @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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After a few warm-up posts last month (here, here, and here), it's time to get serious...
Practical Apologetics: What's Wrong With You? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- How do you talk to an Ex-Mormon? Or a less-active Mormon who you bump into at church or a...
Practical Apologetics: The Doubting Elder @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Time for another installment in this occasional series. As reported in the Deseret News,...
What's Worse, Bad Apologetics or No Apologetics? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The golden era of Mormon apologetics ran from Nibley to FAIR and Old FARMS. With so many...
Review: A Peculiar People, or How Protestants Viewed Mormons in the Nineteenth Century @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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So I finally got around to reading J. Spencer Fluhman's book "A Peculiar People":...
6 Questions for Tom Kimball on the Kirtland Temple @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The Sunday School curriculum is currently covering the Kirtland period of LDS history,...
Religion and Self-Deception @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- I just finished The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life...
Let's Talk About Sorcery @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Borrowing the title from my good friends at BCC, let's talk about sorcery, another...
Mason on the Professionalization of Mormon History @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Millennial Star posted links to a podcast discussion with Patrick Mason on the...
MormonLeaks Posts Additional Documents @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The MormonLeaks site continues to periodically post documents providing a bit of inside...
The Evolution of Adam @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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That's a book by Christian scholar Peter Enns: The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible...
Mormonism in the (Post)Modern World @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The Wheatley Institution hosted a conference at BYU last month, "Reason for Hope:...
Sunday School 2.0 (sort of) @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Love it or hate it, it's still around: Gospel Doctrine in LDS Sunday School. The SL Trib...
The Misguided Quest for a Common Moral Framework @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The Mormon Newsroom just posted a new think-y piece titled "The Quest for a Common Moral...
The Policy: Year One @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Happy birthday, Policy, you are one year old today. In January I posted "Policy or...
Five Possible Wrong Turns for Religion @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I've read several books and essays in the science versus religion genre, some by secular...
Conditional Love Is Back @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The recently announced LDS doctrine of conditional divine love comes from President...
Future Mormons? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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This is a review of and a response to Adam Miller's recent book, Future Mormon: Essays...
Classroom Discussion: Productive or Not? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The LDS Sunday School General President posted this short article at LDS.org (in the...
Korihor the Witch @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. (Ex. 22:18)I recently read Peter Charles Hoffer's...
"Come Back" -- with some thoughts on why they left in the first place @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- A couple of weeks ago I taught Lesson #12 in the Howard W. Hunter manual, titled Come...
Thoughts on Planted: Apologetics in an Age of Doubt @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Patrick Q. Mason's Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt (2015) is the latest...
The New Harmonized First Vision Account @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Sunday night, Elder Richard J. Maynes, of the Presidency of the Seventy, delivered a CES...
Calling All Millennials @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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The most interesting talk at UVU's just-completed Mormonism and the Art of Boundary...
Review of Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I enjoyed reading Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings (OUP, 2016), a 300-page collection...
Elder Ballard on Building a Better Boat @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- In October 2014, Elder Ballard delivered his "Stay in the Boat" talk at General...