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July 2015

July 23, 2015

Jenkins 28: THE MYTH OF THEREFORE (Original)

Jenkins objected to me interspersing comments with his text. So here is his original, without...

July 17, 2015

Jenkins 21: The Empirical Past?

Below is Jenkins comments. My response comes first in blue. ===== For the purposes of argumentation I...

July 17, 2015

Jenkins 20: It’s all Coincidence

So there’s lots of wars described in the Book of Mormon in the 360s

July 17, 2015

Hamblin 31: I am not a Post-Modernist

Jenkins repeatedly asserts that I, and all other LDS authors on the historicity of the Book of...

July 08, 2015

Hamblin 28: Homophony and Proper Names

Another possible avenue for evaluating the historicity of the Book of Mormon is proper name...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

Jenkins 12: Still no Evidence

And here we go again. What Dr. Hamblin does here is precisely what I expected...

June 27, 2015

Jenkins 11

Responding to my #17 ============= As you say, a parody. Now, as to that evidence...

June 27, 2015

Jenkins Rejoinder 10: Prove it!

In my attempt to draw these exchanges to a civil conclusion, I suggested that Dr....

June 14, 2015

Response to Jenkins 1

I have to admit that I've been playing a prank here on Patheos. (For those...

June 14, 2015

In Memoriam

Three years ago today, the coup that inaugurated the "New Direction" at the Maxwell Institute occurred....

June 10, 2015

Response to Jenkins

I had planned to respond to some of the more uninformed claims and criticisms of...

May 2015

May 03, 2015

New Director at the Maxwell Institute?

Rumor has it--and it is only rumor--that Jerry Bradford will be stepping down as director...

April 2015

April 03, 2015

The Real Issue on Paul Owen and the Maxwell Institute

John Gee recently published a critique of Paul Owen's "Theological Apostasy and the Role of Canonical...

February 2015

February 19, 2015

The Progressive “But”

Insights on identity of Mormon Progressives.

February 10, 2015

John Dehlin’s Excommunication

John Dehlin has apparently been excommunicated. The letter from his Stake President is here:

February 06, 2015

On Credentials

There's a strange argument being made in the nether regions of the Internet that John...

January 2015

January 21, 2015

In Memoriam

My mom passed away on 12 Jan. For those friends who are interested, her is...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Still agree

Dan Peterson's response in our conversation with David Bokovoy.

December 18, 2014

Joseph Smith, The Cambridge Years

Anti-Mormons, liberal Mormons, and secular historians have posited many different models and sources to explain...

November 2014

November 17, 2014

Secret Recordings of BYU Religious Education Faculty

The local media has finally gotten wind of the open secret that some classrooms in Religious...

November 13, 2014

Recording my classes

If anyone at BYU wants to hear what I say in the classroom, they don't...

November 05, 2014

M&E 27 Deification

Art, Mysticism, Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila, deification, Maximus the Confessor, mystical union, beatific...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

My Fifteen Minutes?

After decades of being ignored when critiquing anti-Mormons, apostates, and liberal Mormons, I finally make...

October 03, 2014

Islam Khoja Mosque

Photos from Khiva, Uzbekistan

August 2014

August 14, 2014

Skydiving

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

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 02, 2014

Back from Rome

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

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...