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June 2014

June 30, 2014

LDS First Presidency Statement on Apostasy

Can be found here. It's too bad that those who really need to understand this...

June 23, 2014

George Q Cannon on Apostasy

Interesting perspective from George Q Cannon on the meaning of Apostasy, From FAIR.

June 23, 2014

Kelly Excommunicated

Kate Kelly of "Ordain Women" has been excommunicated. Salt Lake Tribune account here.

June 21, 2014

Predatory Disbelief

Despite the rhetorical posturing of many critics of the Church, it does not excommunicate people...

June 18, 2014

Hamblin-Peterson Column on Relics

See here.

June 18, 2014

Timely Quotes

From Greg Smith.

June 18, 2014

Apostasy or Heresy?

There is an (intentional?) confusion and conflation among some critics of the Church regarding the...

June 18, 2014

What is Apostasy?

Some of the critics of the Church like to claim that "apostasy" means "standing apart,"...

June 18, 2014

Excommunication?

The recent controversy over church courts has led to a bit of confusion and conflation...

June 16, 2014

Can’t We all Just Get Along?

A friend of mine sent me this interesting new report: Sunday, July 15, 2014 Republican's...

June 11, 2014

Dehlin Church Court

Noted critic of Mormonism John Dehlin is facing possible excommunication. No doubt there will be...

June 11, 2014

Mysticism 1: new class at BYU

I'm going to be teaching a class on "Mysticism and Esotericism" at BYU, in Fall...

June 11, 2014

Heavenly Ascents

People interested in temple theology, deification, celestial ascent, and biblical esoterica should check out David...

June 08, 2014

Faithless Execution?

Not exactly religious, but it is the great tragedy of our age that such a...

June 06, 2014

DH-39 Scholarly Consensus?

The claim is often made by supporters of the Documentary Hypothesis that there is scholarly...

June 04, 2014

Guatemala Tour!

I'll be leading a tour to Guatemala on 23 January-1 Feb 2015. Click here for...

June 04, 2014

DH-38 We Don’t Know

Another remarkable characteristic of the Documentarians is their unwillingness to simply admit, “We just don’t...

June 04, 2014

Temple and Apocalyse

A review of The Apocalypse in the Light of the Temple by Peter Leithart. This book basically...

June 04, 2014

What Makes You a Buddhist?

Interesting reflections on what I call Para-Buddhists (people on the sides or fringes of Buddhism)....

June 04, 2014

Idaho Falls Temple

Photos from my recent trip to Idaho Falls LDS Temple.

June 02, 2014

Grand Tetons

Just got back from my first-ever trip to the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. It's absolutely...

June 02, 2014

Mormon Theology Seminar

The Mormon Theology Seminar on 1 Nephi will occur this June in London. It is...

June 02, 2014

Dehlin Interview’s Adam Miller

On "Mormon Stories." Interesting for their reflections on the "new" Maxwell Institute. Dan Peterson extracted...

June 02, 2014

Religious Art

Hamblin-Peterson column in the Deseret News on religious art.

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Review of Ehrman

The ever insightful Larry Hurtado reviews Bart Ehrman's new book How Jesus Became God (2104).

May 25, 2014

DH 37- A Shrinking Theory?

One of the latest book-length defenses of the Documentary Hypothesis, Joel Baden’s The Composition of...

May 22, 2014

Commentary on Luke

Kent Brown, professor emeritus at BYU and a leading scholar on the New Testament and...

May 21, 2014

DH-36: Four Degrees of Speculation

Documentarians generally claim that they can: 1- identify the four different sources within the Pentateuch;...

May 19, 2014

DH-35: Literary Composition Techniques

As far as I can tell, there is no example of any other ancient Jewish...

May 18, 2014

Spring City, Utah

Spring City, Utah (population 1000), is an old Mormon pioneer agrarian settlement from the 1850s. It...

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