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June 2014

June 18, 2014

Excommunication?

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

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 04, 2014

Guatemala Tour!

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

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...

May 2014

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 18, 2014

Spring City, Utah

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

May 16, 2014

Mike Ash

Mike Ash always has interesting insights on LDS apologetics. Well worth taking a look for...

May 11, 2014

Bokovoy’s Response

David Bokovoy sent the follow as a comment. So it doesn't get lost in the...

May 10, 2014

Seeking Clarification

Various people, both here, on Facebook, and on anti-Mormon discussion boards in the nether regions...

May 10, 2014

Have I Misunderstood?

In response to my criticisms of his views (which I can't directly access; indirectly here),...

May 09, 2014

What is Scripture?

Over on his blog David Bokovoy continues to explain why he thinks scripture should be...

April 2014

April 19, 2014

Mike Ash’s Book

An article about Mike Ash and his excellent book Shaken Faith Syndrome.

April 16, 2014

Post-Mormon Monologue

An interesting assessment of Post-Mormon monologues trying to disguise themselves as dialogues. It matches my...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

Book of Abraham Studies

Since I've been discussing the Book of Abraham, it should be noted that the classic...

August 26, 2013

Catalyst Theory of the Book of Abraham

I think it is worth noting an important distinction in the "Catalyst Theory." Simply put,...

August 26, 2013

The Official Position is That There is No Official Position

Blair Hodges has replied to my previous set of questions concerning his statement that "the...

August 25, 2013

No official position?

Here is an interesting statement from Blair Hodges that new Maxwell Institute "has no official...

August 24, 2013

Mysteries of Enoch 1: Biblical Origins

A discussions of: 1- Joseph Smith's "Book of Enoch" (Moses 6-7); 2- Enoch in the...

August 23, 2013

Mysteries of Enoch 4: Modern times

Attached are the KeyNote slides for my Education Week presentations “Mysteries of Enoch 4: Modern Times” Fr,...

August 21, 2013

Mysteries of Enoch 3: Christians and Jews

Attached are the KeyNote slides for my Education Week presentations “Mysteries of Enoch 3: Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism”...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

Royal Skousen’s Critical Text Project

His lecture series is now online via the Maxwell Institute:

July 22, 2013

The Future of Mormon Studies?

Ben Park, an associate editor of the newly envisaged Mormon Studies Review, has forwarded a...

July 03, 2013

New Scripture Study resources

John Gee and Matt Roper's "Ether's Cave" blog continues to produce interesting stuff ...

June 2013

June 29, 2013

Bearing Witness of Evil

From the ever insightful Greg Smith. Sometimes there is nothing to do to right...

June 29, 2013

Book of Mormon Onomastica

Now online. Lot's of interesting things here about names in the Book of Mormon.

June 26, 2013

When Nibley is right, he’s right

As cited by John Gee