Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Aestheism

Home
Latter-day Saint

2015-07-09T11:36:36-05:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Please Don’t Tolerate Me

Last updated on: July 9, 2015 at 11:36 am By David Mason

I’m traveling in India these days, which means that I’m enjoying a lovely respite from going to church. There’s no denying it. At least, denying it would only be another act of inauthenticity by which many of us church-goers live. Church is largely a chore, aggravating and exhausting, which I undertake once a week because I have received from my parents a religious tradition, elements of which I have come to own for myself, as parts of myself, and dear... Read more

2015-06-26T08:27:09-05:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Sweep Out the Confederate Flag

Last updated on: June 26, 2015 at 8:27 am By David Mason

We bought our first home, here in Memphis, more than a decade ago, and we celebrated home ownership by handing our kids a big bucket of sidewalk chalk, representing all the pastel colors of the rainbow. Knock yourselves out, Kids, we said, now there’s no landlord to say ‘no’. And we left them to their own devices and the driveway. A couple hours later, they called us from the house to see their handiwork. Beaming with pride, they led us to... Read more

Activism

India

Southern Culture

2015-06-19T09:14:58-05:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

God’s Body Just Isn’t What It Used to Be

Last updated on: June 19, 2015 at 9:14 am By David Mason

One of the things that keeps Mormonism from being Christian is its dogmatic attachment to god’s embodiment. While the Christian world insists on god’s transcendence—that is, that god is immaterial—Mormonism clings to a scriptural declaration that god is embodied. “The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also”, goes the prophetic word.* I like god’s embodiment. The notion that god is in creation with us appeals to me, though I’m well aware of... Read more

2015-06-05T11:16:03-05:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Archimedes’ Divine Lever

Last updated on: June 5, 2015 at 11:16 am By David Mason

Archimedes is reported to have said, lo, these more-than-two-millennia ago, that if he were given a sufficiently long lever, he, personally, could move the earth. Now, according to some enterprising internet wonks, it turns out that Archimedes’ lever would have to be something like ten million light years long if his fulcrum was set one meter in from where the lever contacted the earth. That length will vary as we adjust some of the assumptions we have to make, but, in... Read more

2015-05-22T16:40:01-05:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

The Boy Scouts of a Better America

Last updated on: May 22, 2015 at 4:40 pm By David Mason

Word has come from none other than Robert Gates that the Boy Scouts of America will have to end its openly discriminatory policy of not allowing gay adults to serve as Boy Scout leaders. What I find so delicious about the BSA’s supreme leader’s opinion is the position of chagrin and shame into which it has put so many low-level minions who have treated advocates of change in this matter like so much dog droppings. Go treat Robert Gates—former CIA... Read more

Activism

LDS Church

Scouting

2015-05-08T16:20:26-05:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Self-less Giving and the Corporate Self

Last updated on: May 8, 2015 at 4:20 pm By David Mason

We finally have empirical evidence that Jesus knew everything. The son of god, of course, said, “Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” Now we have sociological data supporting the contention that people who are more self-less are more charitable. Only, the idea of self-less-ness that produces this data may not be the same thing as traditional Christian selflessness. Daniel M. Bartels, Trevor Kvaren, and Shaun Nichols,... Read more

2015-04-24T09:23:10-05:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Mike Pence Wears Pink Panties

Last updated on: April 24, 2015 at 9:23 am By David Mason

The Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, or RFRA’s, that the states are adopting, pell-mell, have the right idea, and I want in. A RFRA is a vital piece of state-level legislation that strengthens the constitutional protection of religious exercise, because the constitutional protection of religion has become an eighteenth-century coot, grown so toothless and old that these days it spends most of its time staring out the window at the begonias and muttering about the old mare, and just can’t forbid... Read more

2015-04-17T12:04:58-05:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Thee and Thou and Little Lambs Eat Ivy

Last updated on: April 17, 2015 at 12:04 pm By David Mason

Anyone—Mormon or otherwise—who has sat through any LDS Mormon church services conducted in English has had to endure the sound of LDS Mormons wrestling, mostly unsuccessfully, with archaic English pronouns. Wandering into the array of obsolete pronouns including thee, thou, thy, and thine, most English-speaking LDS Mormons are unable to distinguish between possessive, plural, nominative, and objective cases, but feel an obligation to try, anyway.* The consequence is a mish-mash of pseudo-Elizabethan colloquialisms that only makes one wonder why LDS Mormons don’t throw ye into the mix,... Read more

2015-04-06T12:00:23-05:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Outsourcing My Easter

Last updated on: April 6, 2015 at 12:00 pm By David Mason

I do my exercises faithfully. Not only because I had back surgery fifteen years ago, nor even only to address the labral tear in my hip. Easter comes in the Spring, and Easter means three hours of standing. For a person in my frail physical condition, three hours of standing can be excruciating. But I wouldn’t miss it. Hence, the exercises. Around ten in the p.m. on April 11, I’ll drop two Alleve and wander over to St. John... Read more

2015-03-23T09:21:04-05:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

What the Heck is a Platypus?

Last updated on: March 23, 2015 at 9:21 am By David Mason

In the mid-eighteenth century, Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist, figured out what mammals are: hairy, warm-blooded, live-born, mammary-feeders (hence, the term mammals). At this point, Europeans breathed a collective sigh of relief that they could be certain to know a mammal when they saw one. Linnaeus’s taxonomy was the perfect Enlightenment project. Having pulled down the idol church of the medieval ages and following on the Renaissance’s careful measurement of humanity’s fitness for the niche, the Enlightenment charged towards the... Read more

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

What does Proverbs 22:6 say about training a child?

Select your answer to see how you score.

Teach a child discipline, and he will live in wisdom. Guide the young, and they will not stumble. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Children should be seen and not heard.

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category Activism Aesthetics Art Atheism Bible Book of Mormon Christianity Freedom Games Guest Posts Hinduism Identity LDS Church Marriage Prayer Ritual Science Theatre Theism Toxic Theology

Select a Month August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014

TRENDING AT PATHEOS Latter-day Saint