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A Reaction to the Church’s Recent Essay on Book of Mormon Geography @ Times & Seasons
- Brant Gardner has kindly agreed to offer some comments on the recent Church essay on Book...
Explainer: Utah Stealthily Raised State Income Taxes @ By Common Consent
- At the intersection of Mormons and tax policy? This article is pure #BrunsonBait. Paging...
The JST as an Issue Spotting Exercise @ By Common Consent
- When I use the expression “issue spotting,” all the lawyers will nod...
“Blessed Are Ye” #BCCSundaySchool2019 (3 of 3) @ By Common Consent
- Part Three: Rules, what are they good for? There is a moment in one of the Terminator...
Faith in a Secular Age @ Times & Seasons
- I’m pleased today to share a guest post from friend of the blog, Samuel Morris...
BCC Press Grows a Foot or Two @ By Common Consent
- The Legend of Hermana Plunge, by Angela Liscom Clayton. (Paperback: $12.95) (Kindle:...
“Blessed Are Ye” #BCCSundaySchool2019 (2 of 3) @ By Common Consent
- Part Two: Salt and Light, huh. Well let me tell you…. Ye are the salt of...
“Blessed Are Ye” #BCCSundaySchool2019 (1 of 3) @ By Common Consent
- Part One: Blessedness and Happiness Matthew 5; Luke 6 NB: Though this week’s reading is...
Notes on the history of missionary correspondence @ By Common Consent
- I decided to look through some of the old missionary handbooks in my library to see if...
Book Review Roundup @ By Common Consent
- The purpose of these periodic book review posts is to provide a succinct layman’s...
Missionary Communication Rules: How Folk Theology Works (and Doesn’t Work). @ By Common Consent
- The church announced today that effective immediately, missionaries can text,...
Book review: And It Was Very Good @ By Common Consent
- I seem to recall an episode of All in the Family (or possibly Archie Bunker’s Place)...
Satan’s troll farm @ Times & Seasons
- If Satan hired a Russian troll farm, what would the Mormon corner of the Internet be...
10 Questions with Grant Hardy @ Times & Seasons
- We’re happy to share an other in our series of interviews by Kurt Manwaring. This...
Hell Part 3: Egypt in the Book of Mormon @ Times & Seasons
- Back when I first was invited to join T&S I started doing a series on Hell in the...
Online Dating Series: Potential Pitfalls @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- Things are zipping along, you’re going on meets and dates and maybe some of your...
Online Dating Series: Meet or Date Gone Wrong @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- Since I stuck to the criteria I shared, it was really rare for a date to go wrong aside...
Interfaces of modernity: proselytizing, universities, politics @ Times & Seasons
- Avoiding controversy would make our lives easier, but it would not be good for the...
Online Dating Series: The Meet @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- How to know when to meet? I used several criteria.
Does conversation flow naturally? Do...
Online Dating Series: First Contact @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- I took it to heart that I should initiate contact when a profile caught my attention....
Online Dating Series: The Profile (Theirs) @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- Many of the same things apply to looking at a potential’s profile as they do...
Death and Immortality @ Times & Seasons
- One of the interesting questions about the plan of salvation is why we need to think...
Online Dating Series: The Profile (Yours) @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- It can be intimidating looking at that blank profile page you need to create to represent...
Jesus the Precocious and the Angel’s Slap @ Times & Seasons
- For family scripture study in the mornings we’ve started just following the Primary...
Book of Mormon Studies Association Call for Papers @ Times & Seasons
- It appears to be the season of conference submission notifications! The Third Annual...
Online Dating Series: Setting Your Sites @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
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Knowing absolutely nothing about online dating sites to eventually becoming a monitor...
Future Mormon 9: Network Theology Part 1 @ Times & Seasons
- Welcome to the ninth chapter of the never quite weekly reading club for Adam...
SMPT Submissions Due Tuesday, Jan. 15th @ Times & Seasons
- There’s still time to submit a proposal for the Society for Mormon Philosophy and...
Online Dating Series- The Decision/Preparation @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
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Disclaimer– Up front, this series will probably piss off a few men (especially LDS...
Does serving a mission in a low-income country change your commitment to the poor? @ Times & Seasons
- In a recent research paper, economist Lee Crawfurd seeks to answer this question by...
Ordinances and the Ship of Theseus @ Times & Seasons
- The ship of Theseus was an old Greek philosophical question. Over time a ship has various...
Renewing My Vows @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
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I love the idea of wedding vow renewals, whether it’s to mark a significant...
Uto-Aztecan and Semitic: Too much of a good thing @ Times & Seasons
- Brian Stubbs’s argument for extensive ancient contact between Semitic and...
She who Speaks @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- In recent days, with the changes to the temple ceremony, I have been contacted by many...
Challenges for the church in 2019. A view from across the pond @ Times & Seasons
- On its website lds.org the church has a nice item on how the church changed in 2018,...
