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July 2013

July 26, 2013

Chipotle Should Read This Book

Apparently the Chipotle restaurant chain has created a bit of trouble for itself by pretending...

July 05, 2013

Influence of Jean Bodin on Rawls #rawlsreligion

Rawls wrote in "On My Religion" that one of the texts on religions which has...

July 04, 2013

Is God an American?

Of course, not. While I cringe at the heavy doses of American exceptionalism (often in...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Whoa…wait…are Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind novels about gay marriage?

Will conservative Christians ever recover from those mean gay bullies? The Daily Show's Samantha Bee...

June 25, 2013

Does Ozzy Actually think “God is Dead?” You Might Be Surprised.

The new single by Black Sabbath asks the question "God is Dead?" Okay, the grammar...

June 17, 2013

Homosexuality Is Not a Sin

“Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin." Not sure if I hate the sin, but I...

June 12, 2013

No Liberals Here! (Adventures in Sunday School)

Okay, it might be an exaggeration to call anything that happens at church an adventure....

June 11, 2013

“…they depict God as a monster moved solely by God’s own power and glory….” #rawlsreligion

Following his experiences in World War II, John Rawls more and more moved away from...

June 10, 2013

The Good Samaritan as The Other

The parable of the Good Samaritan is well known and much beloved. The image of...

June 06, 2013

Strange Gods: The Idol of Ideas (Chap. 3)

NOTE: See my earlier posts in this series here and here. Over the course of...

June 06, 2013

More Than Belief: Faith as a Relationship with God.

I recently heard somebody refer to faith as a verb. While many verbs are involved...

June 05, 2013

Judith Butler’s Religious Roots (Video)

In the following video, philosopher Judith Butler discusses her work and philosophy with Wesleyan University...

June 04, 2013

Are Mormons Protestants?

Should Mormons be categorized as Protestants? The 2012 Casper College Humanities Festival focused on the...

June 01, 2013

Baptists Set to Ditch Boy Scouts

CNN is reporting that the Southern Baptist Convention will be abandoning the Boys Scouts of...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

Strange Gods: God Before Us (Chap. 1)

"To become too attached to a thought or feeling or thing is to place it...

May 23, 2013

The Holocaust and Losing Faith in Christianity. #rawlsreligion

I started writing a while back about John Rawls and his journey away from a...

May 20, 2013

Kant on Duty, Inclination, and Loving Our Enemies.

Along with my dissertation, I have been pondering and working on a project about the...

May 17, 2013

Sister Monson Passes Away

Only moments before seeing the news that Frances Monson had passed away this morning at...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

LDS Church Supports Move to Include Gay Scouts

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released a statement in support of...

April 23, 2013

Community of Christ and the Liberal Mormon

With the announcement that the National Conference of the Community of Christ has recommended expanding...

April 22, 2013

Community of Christ Extends Marriage to Same-Sex Couples

In their National Conference held April 19-21, The Community of Christ (formerly The Reorganized Church...

April 16, 2013

Israel, Mourning, and Longing for Justice

Today, Boston Review shared a talk delivered by the philosopher Martha Nussbaum in 2008 when...

April 16, 2013

The Cult of Virginity (Half the Sky Chap. 5) #sjbc

This post is part of the April Social Justice Book Club. This week we are...

April 15, 2013

Why do bad things happen to good innocent people?

Why do bad things happen to good innocent people? Again, I consider this question today...

April 11, 2013

“Mormon Women and the Priesthood” today on RadioWest (Update: Audio Now Available)

RadioWest, the radio news interview show out of KUER in Salt Lake City, is talking...

April 06, 2013

Saturday Afternoon Session Open Thread: Go Syracuse! Edition #ldsconf

We are back for the second session of the day! This afternoon, Todd and I...

April 06, 2013

Lorna Call Alder Memorial Saturday Morning Session Open Thread #ldsconf

Welcome to the Saturday Morning Session of the April 2013 General Conference of the Church...

April 05, 2013

Making the Trek to General Conference #ldsconf

We made it! With brief stops at Martin's Cove, the McDonald's in Rawlins, the gas...

April 04, 2013

Care and Obedience (Mormonism and Feminist Theory)

The care perspective was first identified by Carol Gilligan who argued that there are two...

April 03, 2013

Live for Temple Square: Covering General Conference #ldsconf

Approaching Justice will be covering General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...