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November 2016

November 30, 2016

New/Forthcoming books of Interest

Update: Between now and Dec 5, get 5$ off any physical Amazon book order of...

November 27, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 45-46: Ether

A few general notes about the Book of Ether. First, unlike the other two Book...

November 26, 2016

Church History/ Doctrine & Covenants Gospel Doctrine Resources

Several things make next year extremely challenging for me. D&C is the book I have...

November 26, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 43-44: Mormon 1-9

I'm combining these lessons for two reasons. First, lesson 44 (chapters 7-8) is included within...

November 12, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 42: 4 Nephi

Since I've already covered 3Ne 27-28 in previous posts, I'll focus on 4 Nephi.Why is...

November 06, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 41: 3Ne 22-26

A couple of notes first. I'll be in San Antonio for the annual joint Society of...

November 02, 2016

A Vague Post on Joseph Fielding Smith, Evolution, and Other Sides of His Story

People are multi-faceted and complex. It's very easy to develop an attitude of putting either...

October 2016

October 29, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 40: 3Ne 16, 20-30 (Rough post)

I'm on the road and having technical problems. So I'm posting this rough, now, and...

October 27, 2016

“Teaching Bible Stories”- History vs. Fiction in the Improvement Era

The Improvement Era in September 1925 ran a short article in the Editor's Table called...

October 26, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 39: 3Ne 17-19

These chapters constitute the end of Day 1 of Jesus' visit (ends in 19:3) and...

October 16, 2016

An update and book preview

I wrote four draft posts on Saturday, two for Gospel Doctrine lessons, and two on other...

October 08, 2016

The Backstory to Elder Eyring’s Age of the Earth Comment and Creationism

Elder Eyring told a story in this recent General Conference. My father... was a seasoned...

October 08, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 38: 3Nephi 12-15

Today we enter into a very interesting section of the Book of Mormon. Like the Isaiah chapters,...

September 2016

September 25, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 37: 3Ne 8-10

Let's begin with this observation about the power of art, by a BYU professor with...

September 25, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 36: 3 Nephi1-7

First, it's that time of year wherein I start thinking about January, which means D&C

September 22, 2016

Why Science is (Mostly) Powerless Against Young Earth Creationism: A Personal Narrative

Young Earth Creationism (YEC) is, ironically, relatively young. I've written about its origins at Religion&Politics (start in...

September 17, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 35: Helaman 13-16

Today we get to meet Samuel, who prophecies of, well, 3 Nephi, basically. What does it...

September 11, 2016

Brigham Young, Studying Evil, and Living in a Bubble

I originally wrote this about 10 years ago, reposted it five years ago, and since...

September 11, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 34: Helaman 6-12

Classes have begun, and it's heavy. I spent today reading Schleiermacher's On Religion and a book about...

September 09, 2016

Books, Homes, and Al-Jahiz

Living in New York for six years, I developed the habit of looking for new...

September 03, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 33: Helaman 1-5 Notes and Questions

Today's text includes a good bit of carry-over from the war chapters, while adding political...

August 2016

August 20, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 32: Alma 53-63 “The War Chapters Part II”

Today we continue the war chapters, and get to read some military correspondence. I don't...

August 19, 2016

Critical Scholarship and Faith at BYU, Brief Partial Summary and Thoughts

Several weeks ago, the Maxwell Institute's Studies in the Bible and Antiquity journal sponsored a small non-public...

August 06, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 31: Alma 43-48 aka “The War Chapters I

As I've pointed out previously, the Book of Mormon moves at different paces in different places....

August 03, 2016

David O. McKay, Genesis, and Evolution: Part 2.

In a previous post, I detailed President McKay's explicit, published, written approval of a very...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 30: Alma 40-42, Three Generations of Repentance

These chapters (and 39) are all focused on Corianton, who gets quite the paternal talk....

July 30, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 29: Alma 36-39 Notes and Suggestions

The Book of Mormon has a variable pace. Occasionally, we skip through decades or even hundreds...

July 24, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 28: Alma 32-34

First, the structure of the text. Alma 30-34 are really one unit, which we break...

July 23, 2016

A Note on Pioneer Day Talks, Sweetwater, and Tradition

I didn't grow up in Utah, and never heard of Pioneer Day until I was...

July 17, 2016

A Testimony Meeting Experiment

One of the things I've written about before is the problem of common, broad terminology, that...

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