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August 2014

August 27, 2014

Should be worth reading

Terryl and Fiona Gives, The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the Quest for Faith, (Deseret, 2014)

August 26, 2014

Mysticism and Esotericism

I'm teaching a new class at BYU this fall: History 485 "Mysticism and Esotericism." I've...

August 26, 2014

Temple 2: Primordial Sacrifice

This is the most famous and elegant of the representations of the primordial bull sacrifice by...

August 23, 2014

Deseret News: Alexander the God

The Hamblin Peterson column from Deseret News on "Alexander the God."

August 23, 2014

Temple 1: Brazen Sea

The Brass Sea (Brazen or Bronze Sea) (2 Kgs 25:13-16; 1 Chr 18:8; Jer 52:17-20; cf....

August 22, 2014

YHWH in Greek scripture

Larry Hurtado's interesting comments on the use of the term YHWH/Yahweh/Jehovah in the Greek OT...

August 15, 2014

Where is the Temple Menorah?

Orthodox Rabbis often claim it has been hidden somewhere the Vatican. They are wrong. The...

August 14, 2014

Skydiving

For those who think I spend all of my time thinking of ways to diss...

August 13, 2014

Blog of the Irish

Robert Boylan (my favorite Irishman--after the Lucky Charms guy) has a new LDS-oriented theological blog...

August 11, 2014

The Affair at FAIR, conclusion

It angers me when my friend Dan is harassed and insulted by anti-Mormons. It angers...

August 09, 2014

Blair consults a Lawyer

I just received this from Blair Hodges. It is beyond bizarre! William Hamblin's recent blog...

August 09, 2014

“All of you are cowards!”

Reports have reached me of a little incident at the FAIR conference. Apparently Blair Hodges...

August 09, 2014

Mary, the Mother of Jesus

This week's Deseret News column by Dan Peterson and me is on Mary, the Mother...

August 06, 2014

FAIR Conference

I assume that all of my readers are familiar with FAIR (the Foundation for Apologetic...

August 05, 2014

How can they get it so wrong?

Journalists are almost universally noted for their inability to understand the things they about which...

August 03, 2014

Putting Putti in Their Place

No one has ever, for obvious reasons, confused me with the Lord God Almighty. (Though...

August 03, 2014

Interpreter

I assume that most of my readers know of the Interpreter Foundation, it's journal and...

August 02, 2014

Back from Rome

I'm back from my "Grand Tour" in Rome. What a GREAT trip. Many photos!

August 02, 2014

DN column on Constantine

With Dan Peterson. Click here.

July 2014

July 21, 2014

Does God Know the Past?

The claims of some liberal LDS that God might choose to reveal "inspired fiction" in...

July 16, 2014

Le Disgraziate

After my experiences this week with Italian public transportation, I've decided to write an opera....

July 13, 2014

Historicity as Dividing Line

The default assumption of non-LDS is that the unique LDS scripture in the Pearl of...

July 12, 2014

David Larsen on Scripture

An in depth and insightful analysis of the nature of scripture from David Larsen at...

July 11, 2014

Ether’s Cave

Matt Roper has an insightful blog called "Ether's Cave." (I like that name. It speaks...

July 11, 2014

Abrahamic Issues

The recent Church statement on the "Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham" has...

July 11, 2014

What is Scripture? and is it relevant?

Well, that all depends on what you mean by "scripture" and what you mean by...

July 09, 2014

Milvian Bridge, 312 AD

Those who think that "violence never solves anything" have never studied history. For good or...

July 08, 2014

Historicity of the Book of Abraham

This statement seems difficult to reconcile with claims of a fictional Book of Abraham.

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Rome

Tomorrow I'm off to Rome for a month. I'll have intermittent wifi access, and will...

June 30, 2014

Thoughts on Historicity

Those who propose that our scriptures are best understood as "inspired fiction" almost inevitably frame...

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