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December 2016

December 21, 2016

The Cyclical Nature of BYU’s Religious Education

A guest post from Mrs. Silence Dogood One of the most interesting books on Mormon...

September 2015

September 27, 2015

Diachronic or Synchronic? A Response to Nicholas J. Frederick

Introduction The fact that New Testament (NT) language appears throughout the Book of Mormon (BM)...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

An Appeal to the BYU Board of Trustees: Please Trust Your Faculty

The appeal that follows is undergirded by a simple but unproven (at least not by...

March 25, 2015

On Academic Freedom at BYU, Part 1: The BYU Statement

[Part two; part three] The question of academic freedom at Brigham Young University provides an...

November 2014

November 03, 2014

Religious Education for the Modern World

The situation regarding the new CES/Religious Education curriculum at BYU has got me thinking about...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

Religious Education’s New Curriculum: A Tale of Two Authorities

The Church has decided to revamp the curriculum for the Church Educational System, which includes...

May 2014

May 28, 2014

10 Reasons to be Excited about the Study of Religion at BYU

In the spirit of the 10 tidbits series at FPR, I offer (for once!) a...

March 2013

March 05, 2013

Approaching Antiquity: BYU Church History Symposium 2013

In case you haven't seen it, take a break from Wheat and Tares Apologizing and...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Apologists at War: Religious Studies is Not the Enemy

The Maxwell Institute's removal of Daniel Peterson as editor of the Mormon Studies Review continues to...

October 2012

October 16, 2012

Faith, Scholarship, and Teaching at BYU Series

For the series announcement and the question to which I am replying, see here. I...

August 2012

August 08, 2012

Apologetics in the Academy

In line with Daniel Peterson’s recent comments, I see significant points of congruence between apologetics...

June 2012

June 25, 2012

Why I Laud the Maxwell Institute’s Direction

I have nothing against Daniel Peterson, and I'm not a fan of John Dehlin. I'm...

April 2012

April 05, 2012

Dear BYU Religious Education (Part 2)

Dear BYU Religious Education, It’s now been over a year since our last correspondence. I’ve...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

The Trouble with BYU’s Religious Education (Part III)

In the previous posts I described how two methodological problems with Religious Education allowed for...

March 13, 2012

The Trouble with BYU’s Religious Education (Part II)

The previous post discussed two methodological problems with Religious Education that fostered the circumstances leading...

March 07, 2012

The Trouble with BYU’s Religious Education (Part I)

This post isn’t meant to discuss the specifics of Randy Bott’s circumstances. Instead, I’d like...

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...

December 2010

December 20, 2010

Dear BYU Religious Education

Dear BYU Religious Education, I can only speak for myself here--one LDS graduate student studying...

July 2010

July 22, 2010

A Student Comment on Social Justice, Rawls, and Chris H.

Professor H, A student in your Political Philosophy course asked that these comments be forwarded...

October 2009

October 23, 2009

Church Stance on Birth Control, Public and “Private”

Deseret Mutual Benefit Administrators (DMBA), the Church's insurance company, does not cover prescriptive contraception, for...

June 2009

June 17, 2009

Optimism and Naiveté for LDS Religion Scholars

I just finished Sheldon Greaves, "The Education of a Bible Scholar" in Dialogue 42:2, Greaves's...

June 18, 2008

A Religious Studies Major at BYU Pt. I

Okay, I know it will probably never happen, but...why can't we blog about it as...

June 10, 2008

A Brief Apologia for Going to Teach in the Religious Education Department at BYU

A commenter on another post said "To think that a couple years ago I envisioned...

March 2008

March 31, 2008

BYU Religion Dean on Premortal Life, Part II: Scripture “Mastery”

This is part II of a post begun a week and a half ago in...

March 19, 2008

BYU Religion Dean on Premortal Life, Part I: Race and Nobility

Last week Terry Ball, Dean of the College of Religious Education, gave BYU's weekly devotional...

November 2007

November 01, 2007

Wilford Woodruff Conference at Yale

This upcoming conference at Yale is the same weekend as the conference on Mormonism and...

October 2007

October 30, 2007

BYU Hiring Ancient Scrip Prof

BYU is looking to hire a professor of ancient scripture in their department of Religious...

September 2007

September 25, 2007

Rate My Institute Teacher

Any teacher worth their salt as a teacher desires constructive feedback. Students desire to leave...

September 08, 2007

Does FARMS Still Matter?

The latest issue of the FARMS Review offers useful insight into the past, present, and...

March 2007

March 16, 2007

How To Get Hired at BYU Religion

As an amateur, I am not really eligible for this, but in speaking to some...

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