The Mormon Archipelago
Oliver Cowdery and Roger Williams: Holy Ancestors and Baptism for the Dead @ Juvenile Instructor
- In my dissertation, I argue that the following statement in an 1835-letter from Oliver...
Doubting Our Doubters @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- We have a problem with doubt. More specifically, we, LDSs, have a problem with how we...
Mormons, Supplementary Worship, and Ash Wednesday @ Juvenile Instructor
- Mormons have a long history of supplementing their LDS worship with attendance at or...
Mormon Turtles 2: Thomas Nast and the Catholic Crocodile @ Juvenile Instructor
- A few weeks ago we looked at how the Salt Lake Tabernacle was frequently invoked as a...
Understanding RLDS History: A Resource List @ Juvenile Instructor
- In January, JI got an email asking for a post highlighting the “essential”...
The Call of Simon Peter in Luke 5:1-11 @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- This story, which is unique to Luke, is a bit of a gem among call narratives. It may be...
Images: The Situation of the Mormons in Utah, with Bleg @ Juvenile Instructor
- For today’s discussion, the image is “Situation of the Mormons in Utah” by George...
Biblical Texts and Historicity @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- There’s been quite a lot of concern reflected in comments in discussions here and...
On Pseudonyms and Insults @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- Reflecting on the behavior of certain other co-bloggers at Patheos and their commenters...
John Gee, Biblical Studies, and Credentials @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- John Gee has alleged that Biblical Studies degrees at elite universities do not require...
JWHA call for papers @ Juvenile Instructor
- From the John Whitmer Historical Association organization:
Do you love church history?...
Notes on John Gee’s Biblical Training @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Mormon Turtles 1: The Salt Lake Tabernacle, etc @ Juvenile Instructor
- In the next two posts I’m going to look at turtles as symbols in a Mormon context. I...
Faith & Knowledge Conference: Schedule and Registration now up @ Juvenile Instructor
- The schedule for the Fifth Biennial Faith & Knowledge Conference was posted this...
The Anthon Transcript: Fulfillment of Prophecy, Reformed Egyptian, and the Evolution of a Story, Part III @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- The Evolution of a Story (See Part I and Part II) In Part I I discussed Joseph...
10 Years in the Bloggernacle @ New Cool Thang
- 10 years ago, give or take a few days, I started my first Mormon blog: Issues in Mormon...
Claremont Mormon Studies Conference Schedule: “Community, Authority, and Identity” @ Juvenile Instructor
- [Looks like a great program, including a smattering of JIers–always a good sign for...
Does the word “apology” appear in the scriptures? @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- Recently it has been suggested that the word apology does not appear in the scriptures as...
Job Ad: Historic Sites Writer/Editor, Church History Department @ Juvenile Instructor
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Posting Dates: 01/29/2015 – 02/27/2015
Job Family: Library, Research...
Son of God @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- I was having a chat with the homies about Christological titles and since my response is...
The Anthon Transcript: Fulfillment of Prophecy, Reformed Egyptian, and the Evolution of a Story, Part II @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- Reformed Egyptian (See Part I here) More problematic in terms of the...
Galileo and the Book of Nature @ New Cool Thang
- A while back, Morgan over at BCC wrote a fantastic post about Galileo and his immense...
The Dangers and Blessings of Reason and Revelation @ New Cool Thang
- Which is worse, false revelations being accepted as true or true revelations being...
“Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man.” @ New Cool Thang
- 34 Behold, there are many called, but few are chosen. And why are they not chosen? 35...
The Church as a Tomb and Sepulcher for the Mormon God @ New Cool Thang
- No doubt most readers have, at one time or another, come across Nietzsche’s famous...
The Lord’s Truth: Universal but not Objective @ New Cool Thang
- The gospel is universal in that all people, be they black or white, bond or free, male or...
Menacing Mormons @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Just finished Patrick Mason's The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the...
Neo-Pragmatism and a Young Earth @ New Cool Thang
- Neo-pragmatism (at least as Richard Rorty understands it) is committed to the position...
Choose the Right Tattoo @ New Cool Thang
- My wife recently made waves by adding “temporary tattoos” to the plans for an...
Biking for Beards and BYU’s Beard Ban @ New Cool Thang
- BYU is about to be the focus of a new protest. It’s called Bike for Beards....
Blasphemy, Censorship and Doubt @ New Cool Thang
- When Joseph Smith ordered the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor, he was quite clearly...
Religious Degeneration @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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So I read Niall Ferguson's small book The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and...
Five Things You Didn't Know About Young Joseph Smith @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- This is the second post in a series (see intro post) looking at Matt Bowman's The Mormon...
The Mormon People: Introduction @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I bought and read Matthew Bowman's The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith...
The God of Pragmatism @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Here is William James' vision of a pluralistic universe, as expressed in the final...
Facebook Content Comes and Goes, but Blog Content Lasts Forever @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Which is why I continue to maintain this solo blog and periodically post new content,...
Sharp Dressed Man @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- I came across this passage in Joyce Appleby's Inheriting the Revolution (Harvard Univ....
Evangelicals Need Inoculation Too @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- I hope you have seen the recent public announcement of the initiative to use the Gospel...
Did Jesus Exist? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Yes, he did. But you don't have to take my word for it; go read Bart Ehrman's latest...
The Practical Atonement @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- This is the third of three posts on the atonement (Post 1 | Post 2). What effect, if any,...
The Theological Atonement @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Last week I posted The Atheological Atonement, noting that the LDS Church affirms the...
Better Than Apologetics @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Over at Patheos, Joe Spencer posted "Apologetics Again — But This Time with...
The Atheological Atonement @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I presented a paper on vicarious atonement at the recent SMPT Conference. To prepare the...
It Takes Courage for a Mormon to Dissent @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- That's a quotation from Wallace Stegner, found in historian James L. Clayton's 10-page...
The Atonement as Moral Influence @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Here's the next article from the Dialogue archive, Eugene England's essay "That They...
Meeting Tillich Halfway @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- I am continuing to read the archive at Dialogue, this week Louis Midgley's article...
Negotiating LDS History and Faith Challenges (notes, recap) @ Nine Moons
- A few weeks ago, I attended the Negotiating LDS History and Faith Challenges presentation...
The Quest for Religious Authority @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- I just renewed my Dialogue subscription and decided I should work a little harder to, you...
New Seminary Scriptures @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- With no public announcement or explanation that I am aware of, CES has modified LDS...
The Life and Times of Parley P. Pratt @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I recently finished reading Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism (OUP, 2011),...
The Day Creationism Died @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- It was January 5, 1982, the day United States District Court Judge William R. Overton...
Liveblogging the FAIR Conference, Part 2 @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Day 2 of the FAIR Conference — I am streaming it here in Wyoming and posting short...
Liveblogging the FAIR Conference, Part 1 @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Liveblogging from a distance — I am streaming it here in Wyoming. The conference...
Mormon Doubt or General Doubt? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Laurie Goodstein's July 20 New York Times article "Some Mormons Search the Web and Find...
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...
Science, Mormonism, Dialogue @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The good news: There is more room for dialogue between science and Mormonism than between...
FAQ: Temple Cancellation/Clearance @ Nine Moons
- Over at MormonMentality, NewlyHousewife has posted a great list of FAQs for those...
The Earliest New Testament @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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This is the third post (first, second) in a series on the New Testament. This post...
Science as Friend or Foe @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- On a recent long drive, I listened to all 12 lectures of a Science and Religion audio...
Revelation @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- My previous post on the upcoming BYU New Testament Commentary series was so well received...
BYU's New Testament Commentary @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- A website for the upcoming BYU New Testament Commentary series has popped up. The short...
God and Galaxies @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Elder Ballard started out his recent Conference talk "This Is My Work and My...
Socially Constructed Mormonism @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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This is the second post (see first post) discussing ideas presented in the recently...
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
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Tithing And Responsibility @ Nine Moons
- A court has ruled that paying back taxes is a higher priority than paying tithing –...
My Problem With the Couplet @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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In 1840, almost nine years before being called as an LDS apostle, while he was listening...
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
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Knowledge or Faith? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Last month, Jacob over at BCC started an interesting series on the philosophy of...
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...
The Problem With Correlation @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Over at Worlds Without End, Seth posted Overcoming Correlation, or Mormon Studies and...
Mauss on Dialogue @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I am almost done with the recently published memoir by Armand Mauss, Shifting Borders...
Comments on LDS in the USA @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I recently read through the short book (114 pages of text, plus notes) LDS in the USA:...
Brother Husband @ Nine Moons
- If the stars align just so, my first novel will be released this summer. Needless to say,...
Thrown Into This Mormon Life @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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This is the third and final post on Adam Miller's Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in...
Mormonism: How Thinkable Is It? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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This is the second post on Adam Miller's Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon...
Prince on the Evolution of Mormon Thought @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- I stumbled across a Greg Prince talk giving a nice overview of Mormon thought in the past...
What Mormon Theology Looks Like @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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This is the first of several posts discussing Adam Miller's Rube Goldberg Machines:...
Can Books Cause Problems? Reflections on Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- I recently did a quick read of John G. Turner's Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet and posted...
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
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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
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Where Does It End? The Real Danger in Warren Smith’s Perspective @ a bird's eye view
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Christmas Testimony @ a bird's eye view
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Our Remembrance Sunday @ a bird's eye view
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