The Mormon Archipelago
Saturday Funnies, 1916 (2) @ Keepapitchinin
- Under Sea Warfare Mrs. Porpoise (meeting friend in North Sea): “You’re looking well,...
Who We Lost: Part 191 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 190 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 189 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 188 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 187 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 186 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 185 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 184 @ Keepapitchinin
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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...
Saturday Funnies, 1921 (2) @ Keepapitchinin
- Links “What does ‘groundhog’ mean?” “Sausage.” A Problem for Social Workers...
Guest: Joseph Smith and the Mistranslation of the Kinderhook Plates (4 of 4) @ Juvenile Instructor
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By Mark Ashurst-McGee
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3
In the previous installments...
Guest: Joseph Smith’s Mistranslation of the Kinderhook Plates (3 of 4) @ Juvenile Instructor
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By Mark Ashurst-McGee
See Part 1 and Part 2.
As explained in the previous...
Guest: Joseph Smith’s Mistranslation of the Kinderhook Plates (2 of 4) @ Juvenile Instructor
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By Mark Ashurst-McGee
See here for the previous installment.
So, as I was...
Guest: Joseph Smith’s Mistranslation of the Kinderhook Plates (1 of 4) @ Juvenile Instructor
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Mark Ashurst-McGee is Senior Research and Review Editor for the Joseph Smith Papers and...
From the Desk: Matthew Grey @ Juvenile Instructor
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Kurt Manwaring has published an interview with Matthew Grey, over on his site, From...
JWHA One Day Digital Conference @ Juvenile Instructor
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Thanks to friend of JI K. Pollock for putting this...
2021 MHA CFP: Visions, Restorations, and Movements @ Juvenile Instructor
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You can read the original announcement HERE. If you were accepted for the 2020 program,...
Online Lecture: “Going to Work with a Will”: Emmeline B. Wells and the Road to Suffrage @ Juvenile Instructor
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This news comes from our friends at the Church Historian’s Press. If you’d...
JSP Conference 2020: “Joseph Smith’s Connections and Networks” @ Juvenile Instructor
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From our friends at the Joseph Smith Papers:
On Friday, September 18, 2020, the...
Review: Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon (UNC Press, 2020) @ Juvenile Instructor
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Many thanks to friend of JI, WVS, for his thoughtful review! You can purchase the book...
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...
