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January 2016

January 26, 2016

To the Editors of the Deseret News

Dear Sir / Ma'am: I was interested to read in your edition of Thursday, January...

December 2014

December 11, 2014

Our Dirty Hands

In 1973 Michael Walzer wrote an article entitled “Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands.”...

January 2013

January 13, 2013

Faith as a Relationship

I recently heard somebody refer to faith as a verb. While many verbs are involved...

May 2012

May 02, 2012

Turning Wine into Water

In a rather strange opening miracle, the author of the Gospel of John depicts Jesus...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

Mormons and Wild Geese

The first line of Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese" seems as at odds with Mormonism...

September 2011

September 22, 2011

Capital Punishment and LDS Doctrinal Development

This morning my facebook and twitter feeds were inundated with declarations by my Latter-day Saint...

January 2011

January 21, 2011

The Biologist and Her Baptism

The Friday before classes start this semester, my wife Lyndee and I attended a dinner...

April 2009

April 10, 2009

Jesus in Hell!

At the end of Good Friday, we'd like to commemorate Christ's descent into hell. Christ's...

February 2009

February 27, 2009

Bloggernaclademia

New category. We're in. You're out.

February 19, 2008

The C-F-A and a Non-literal Adam and Eve

This past Sunday I taught my 14 year old SS class about the Atonement from...

November 2007

November 25, 2007

LDS Zeal for Law

While some of my fellow bloggers here at FPR conclude their probably ecstatic SBL experience,...

October 2007

October 04, 2007

Julian of Norwich and the Atonement

I don’t know if you have ever heard of Julian of Norwich. She’s a 14thcentury...

July 2007

July 21, 2007

Spontaneous Sacrament Meeting Talk

Last Sunday, before Sacrament meeting, one of the counselors approached me and my wife with...

July 13, 2007

The Nature of Jesus’ Suffering

I've been pondering the Atonement lately and I recently had some inspiration that I'd like...

June 2007

June 26, 2007

The Joy of Suffering

The Gospel is a strange thing sometimes. Often, it challenges our most fundamental conceptions of...

April 2007

April 08, 2007

He is Risen?

Many LDS scholars are more or less willing to give up on historical accuracy of...

March 2007

March 06, 2007

Sacrament Meeting Talk- Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus

I've been assigned to speak to my relatively new ward on Easter Sunday about the...

May 2006

May 19, 2006

The Adversary, Reciprocity, and the Atonement: Part 2A, The Role of Agency

First, I must apologize for the long delay between the first and second installments of...

May 04, 2006

The Adversary, Reciprocity, and the Atonement: Part One, An attempt to recover Satan’s plan

I don't know about you, but I've spent a bit of time lately thinking about...

April 2006

April 20, 2006

The Effects of the Christ-Event: Reconciliation

Early last week a random John made a most interesting post that received no real...

February 2006

February 10, 2006

Does anyone ever humble themselves?

RoastedTomatoes recent post on Times and Seasons (look here) reminds me of a point that...

January 2006

January 28, 2006

“A” is for Adam “in whose fall we sinnéd all”

My GD class was hinting around last week that there is a firm distinction between...

December 2005

December 27, 2005

Where Did Jesus Die?

Yesterday I noticed that the map "Jerusalem in Jesus' Time," bound as Map 17 in...

December 21, 2005

When Did Jesus Die? (Year)

Or when was he born, because the two questions are not unrelated. The Gospels do...

December 20, 2005

When Did Jesus Die? (Date)

This is where things get interesting from the historical-critical perspective. None of the Gospels actually...

December 17, 2005

When Did Jesus Die ? (Day)

We have looked at what the Gospels have to say about the time that Jesus...

December 16, 2005

When Did Jesus Die? (Hour)

When did Jesus die? The Gospels do not provide a single, unambiguous, answer. This issue...

December 02, 2005

The Rules and The Source

Take a moment and think about Dungeons and Dragons. Did any of you play this...

November 2005

November 12, 2005

Teaching, Learning, the 1,000 little changes, and the nature of exaltation/atonement

This is in response to the gauntlet that was thrown down by Geoff J (although...

October 2005

October 20, 2005

False Doctrine being taught at BYU?

It is possible that I accidentally taught false doctrine to my students at BYU yesterday,...

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