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September 2014

September 03, 2014

Temple 6: covenant gesture?

This is the surviving terracotta arm of an early Etruscan statue. The arm is pre-made...

September 01, 2014

Mormons in Hell on Wheels

I've been watching "Hell on Wheels" on Netflix, a show about the building of the...

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 13, 2014

Blog of the Irish

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

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 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

Interpreter

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

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 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 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...

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

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...