The Mormon Archipelago
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A Righteous Woman’s Recompense: Chapter 1 (of 5) @ Keepapitchinin
- Recompense
Quiet Mormon Neighborhood @ Keepapitchinin
- From the Improvement Era, June 1939 — . .
Guest Review: Introduction to the Book of Abraham @ Keepapitchinin
- Book of Abraham
Saturday Remix, 1929 (2) @ Keepapitchinin
- Remix
BREAKING NEWS: LDS Church to Publish the William Clayton Diaries @ Juvenile Instructor
- At a conference sponsored by the Joseph Smith Papers Project (JSPP), LDS Church History...
Farmer Gone Wrong @ Keepapitchinin
- From the Improvement Era, July 1933 – Farmer Gone Wrong By Ralph H. Olson Someone says...
“I Take Up My Pen”: Utah State National Bank, 1935 @ Keepapitchinin
- Utah State National Bank
They Asked James E. Talmage Questions, 1917-1920 @ Keepapitchinin
- Talmage Questions
Stilled Moment @ Keepapitchinin
- Stilled Moment By MaryhaleWoolsey When older eyes scan tall October hills, Seeking the...
“I Take Up My Pen”: Tasmanian District, Australian Mission, 1935 @ Keepapitchinin
- Tasmanian District, 1935
Easing the Way: Samuel Martin Prepares to Leave the South African Mission, 1929 @ Keepapitchinin
- Samuel Martin
Call for Applications – 2018 Mormon Theology Seminar @ Juvenile Instructor
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The Fifth Annual Summer Seminar on Mormon Theology
“Are We Not All Beggars? Reading...
Review: The Thirteenth Apostle: The Diaries of Amasa M. Lyman, 1832-1877 @ Juvenile Instructor
- Scott H. Partridge, ed., The Thirteenth Apostle: The Diaries of Amasa M. Lyman, 1832-1877...
Insulting Utes on Twitter @ New Cool Thang
- Hey look! I just noticed I still own this blog… nice. Ok, I knew I still owned NCT....
Thoughts on PBS’S Wolf Hall @ Juvenile Instructor
- Yes, I’m very late to the party, but I recently saw a few episodes of PBS’s Wolf Hall...
“The Heathen World and America’s Humanitarian Impulse” @ Juvenile Instructor
- I have recently become the director of the Rocky Mountain American Religion Seminar...
“Science vs. Dogma: Biology Challenges the LDS Paradigm” by Greg Prince, Author & Historian @ Juvenile Instructor
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The Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center presents The 2017 Sterling M....
Lecture Announcement from The Joseph Smith Papers @ Juvenile Instructor
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Join Us for a Special Lecture
The Joseph Smith Papers is...
Q&A with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich @ Juvenile Instructor
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, whose book we have been reading together for nearly six months,...
The Authorship of Isaiah Revisited: A Response to Daniel Ellsworth @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- A few days after my recent post about the Isaiah that Nephi could not have known, Daniel...
The Book of Enoch, the Book of Moses, and the Question of Availability @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- In the second edition of his book,[1] D. Michael Quinn added about fourteen pages to the...
BYU Does the BCE Thing @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- According to an article I was reading in Meridian magazine a couple of weeks ago touting...
Scholarly Inquiry: A Conversation with Stephen C. Taysom, II @ Juvenile Instructor
- Eighteen months ago, Taysom was deep into work on a biography of Joseph F. Smith,...
Review: The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History @ Juvenile Instructor
- This review was written by Courtney Jensen Peacock, a PhD student in American Studies at...
Strengthen Your Marriage @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- Cute couple, no? Find out how to strengthen your marriage as they discuss theirs!
What...
The Isaiah Nephi Could Not Have Known: A Response to Dr. Kent Jackson @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- In a recent essay[1] Dr. Kent Jackson has discussed the problem of Isaiah in the Book of...
A Plea to the Writers of Seminary Manuals @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- We’re studying the Book of Mormon again in seminary, and the current manual includes...
A Meek Suggestion @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- BYU faculty have been admonished again this week that BYU must be a great university but...
Religion and Mental Health @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- Dr. Scott Braithwaite’s recent Education Week talk has gotten me thinking about what...
Correlation Kettle Meet Snuffer Pot @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- Yesterday’s document drop in Mormon WikiLeaks included a letter titled “Report from...
Duane Boyce and the Interpreter: A Step in the Wrong Direction @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- Do prophets make mistakes? When prophets speak do they always speak the word of God?...
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...
Moving to Seattle @ New Cool Thang
- This Summer, My Family will be moving to Seattle. Questions I have: What is church like...
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...
Utah election results @ New Cool Thang
- Alot of people are bothered that Trump won Utah. A couple things to keep an eye on. In...
The Mormon Ross Perot Moment @ New Cool Thang
- Ross Perot was the anti-establishment candidate in 1992, who rose to prominence for...
From Civic to Liberal Republicanism: John Locke and the Dutch @ New Cool Thang
- This is the 4th part in my series whereby I roughly follow Jerry Muller’s Thinking...
A Genealogy of Self-Interest: Machiavelli and Hobbes @ New Cool Thang
- This is the third post in my series where I appropriate Jerry Muller’s lecture series...
Greek/Christian Condemnations of Profit/Usury @ New Cool Thang
- (This is the second in a series of posts dedicated to the relationship between Mormonism...
Capitalism and the United Order – Pt. 1 @ New Cool Thang
- This will be a new series of relatively short posts that will center around Jerry Z....
The Meaning and Morals of Marriage @ New Cool Thang
- Terrence Deacon’s classic work, The Symbolic Species, is a very interesting synthesis...
The Word of Wisdom as a Boycott of the Free Market @ New Cool Thang
- A Word of Wisdom … showing forth the order and will of God in the temporal salvation of...
How Technology Is Changing the Church @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- At checkout on a recent visit to my favorite SLC bookstore, I was rewarded with a free...
All the Lights Were Red: Thinking About Reform in Mormonism @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- A funny thing happened on the way to the conference. On Saturday morning I was driving to...
Reading Genesis @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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The latest entry in the how-to-read-the-Bible genre is How to Read the Bible (HarperOne,...
Teaching Genesis @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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A new year of LDS seminary is just starting up, and this year's course of study is the...
Updated Old Testament Seminary Scriptures @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- A couple of years ago, with no public announcement or explanation that I am aware of, CES...
Seer Stones and the New Narrative @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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A week ago, the Church released a suddenly iconic photograph of Joseph Smith's favorite...
Review: Fresh Courage Take @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I recently read the new book Fresh Courage Take: New Directions by Mormon Women...
Bushman on Improving the LDS History Curriculum @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- An interesting AMA exchange with Richard Bushman was recently posted at Reddit. In one of...
Mormons and Race @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Go read Russell Stevenson's review of Paul Reeve's Religion of a Different Color: Race...
Review: First Principles and Ordinances @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I'm going to say some nice things about Sam Brown's First Principles and Ordinances: The...
Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Merina Smith's Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy: The Introduction and...
Day of the Lamanite, Deferred @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Lamanite: An increasingly dated term that now rubs many people the wrong way when heard...
Joseph Smith's Polygamy: Toward a Better Understanding @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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You have probably heard about Joseph Smith's Polygamy: Toward a Better Understanding...
For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013 @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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It's time for a discussion of Russell Stevenson's For the Cause of Righteousness: A...
Polygamy: Demise @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- This is the third and final post on B. Carmon Hardy's Doing the Works of Abraham: Mormon...
Polygamy: Public Practice @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- In my prior post, I looked briefly at the origins of polygamy. Again using documents from...
Polygamy: Origins @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Once upon a time, no one except critics wanted to talk about LDS polygamy. But TV shows,...
Questions and Doubts @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- An article in the March 2015 Ensign is stirring up all kinds of discussion: "When Doubts...
Practical Apologetics: Historicity @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Over the holidays I borrowed a copy of Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures...
The Council of Fifty: A Documentary History @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- I don't have time to do a proper review of the 490 pages of The Council of Fifty: A...
The Mormon Challenge, Part 1: Creation @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Continuing with my project to actually read the LDS books I buy, I'm now reading The New...
Historians Saying Interesting Things About Mormonism @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Between the new polygamy essays at LDS.org and the new religion curriculum at the BYUs,...
Two Approaches to Isaiah @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- This is going to be a post about Isaiah that does *not* talk about Second Isaiah. After...
Menacing Mormons @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Just finished Patrick Mason's The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the...
The Unwritten Order of Things, Revisited @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- At last night's Stake Leadership Training Meeting, the stake president announced the...
On Not Reading the Book of Mormon @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Having heard nice things about the odd little book by Pierre Bayard How to Talk About...
Practical Apologetics: The First Vision @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- It's not surprising that the First Vision has become one of the faith issues that gets...
Negotiating LDS History and Faith Challenges (notes, recap) @ Nine Moons
- A few weeks ago, I attended the Negotiating LDS History and Faith Challenges presentation...
What Goes Around @ Nine Moons
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Since the time I understood the basic idea of it, I have always believed in the Hindu...
FAQ: Temple Cancellation/Clearance @ Nine Moons
- Over at MormonMentality, NewlyHousewife has posted a great list of FAQs for those...
N.T. Wright on Jesus @ Nine Moons
- I took the advice of Henry Eyring yesterday – imagining the talk that I needed and...
A Stranger, A Pilgrim: Liveblogging El Camino @ a bird's eye view
- A
Tithing And Responsibility @ Nine Moons
- A court has ruled that paying back taxes is a higher priority than paying tithing –...
Prophets Don’t All Weigh The Same @ Nine Moons
- Mormons like to beat themselves up for not giving enough value to the man they call...
Mouths of Babes — Does Can Mean Should? @ a bird's eye view
- A
When Women Don’t Want The Priesthood @ Nine Moons
- Imagine for a moment a Northeastern urban ward. The average age is 32, a large number of...
Brother Husband @ Nine Moons
- If the stars align just so, my first novel will be released this summer. Needless to say,...
Wear Pants To Church Day @ Nine Moons
- A group is asking Mormon women to wear pants to church this Sunday as a sign of support...
The Best and Worst of the “Mormon Moment” @ Nine Moons
- We’ve been hearing for a while now about the so-called “Mormon Moment,”...
Our Dead V: Memorial Day at St. Paul’s Cathedral @ a bird's eye view
- A
God and Science @ Digital Faith
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Here's a second and final post on Collins and Giberson's The Language of Science and...
Latent Racism, Orientalism and “Magic Underwear” in American Society and Mitt Romney’s Presidential Campaign @ a bird's eye view
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Straight Answers to Gospel Questions: Evolution @ Digital Faith
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Time to fire up the blog for a few posts on the latest entry in my Now Reading box, The...
Genesis 1: Theories of Creation @ Digital Faith
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In the middle part of The Lost World of Genesis One, Walton details his theory of the...
Genesis 1 Is Functional Creation @ Digital Faith
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In propositions 2 through 6 of The Lost World of Genesis One author John Walton supports...
Genesis 1 Is Ancient Cosmology @ Digital Faith
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That's the first of 18 propositions discussed in John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis...
N. T. Wright on Paul @ Digital Faith
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In this last of my series of posts on Paul I will do a short review of N. T. Wright's...
Becoming a Mormon: Thinking about a Brand with Elder Ballard @ a bird's eye view
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Paul at General Conference @ Digital Faith
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My recent posts on Paul haven't proven too popular, but I'm still pursuing the topic. I...
A Revolutionary Paul @ Digital Faith
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Continuing with this series of posts on Paul, here's what N. T. Wright (in What Saint...
Reading Paul's Letters @ Digital Faith
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My last post was titled "A Mormon View of Paul." This post is more about the view of...
Highlights From Hardy @ Digital Faith
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Times & Seasons has posted a 12 Questions interview with Grant Hardy. He gives serious...
Like a Trampled Flag on a City Street @ a bird's eye view
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Pluralism and Persecution in the UK @ a bird's eye view
- A
Where Does It End? The Real Danger in Warren Smith’s Perspective @ a bird's eye view
- A
Christmas Testimony @ a bird's eye view
- A
Our Remembrance Sunday @ a bird's eye view
- A
