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December 2015

December 09, 2015

Authority is Our Sacred Cow, and It Must be Domesticated

I believe that there are members of our faith that would engage in acts of...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Women, Blacks, and the Priesthood in Recent LDS Church Rhetoric

The open letter recently delivered by LDS church spokesman Michael Otterson to a variety of...

April 2014

April 04, 2014

Some non-arguments against ordaining women to the LDS priesthood

I’m sure all these things have been said before and better, but in order to...

March 2014

March 19, 2014

The Problem of Gendered Voice in the Church Memo to leaders of Ordain Women

The non-accidental choice of the Church to issue the recent press release through a female...

January 2012

January 22, 2012

100 Years of Seminary. And BTW Gay Marriage

In 1971, Elder Boyd K. Packer gave a talk in which he stated: The gospel...

June 2011

June 07, 2011

Pharisees, Scribes, and Modern Disciples

In TYD’s post below, “A Prophet is Only a Prophet When…,” one of the commenters,...

January 2011

January 29, 2011

Ten Tidbits About Prophets and Prophecy in the Old Testament

1. The biblical, or so-called "canonical," prophets--those whom we tend to consider the prophets--in many...

December 2010

December 20, 2010

Scriptural Authority, Normativity, and Hermeneutics: Women and the Priesthood

Introduction [1] The Bible often privileges men as normative for what it means to be...

June 2009

June 27, 2009

Mormon Halacha and Common Law

In kosher law, wine is only kosher when it has been produced and handled by...

June 05, 2009

Women as the True Disciples and Apostles of Christ in the Gospel of Mark

The Gospel of Mark, written c. 65-70 C.E., is the earliest of the four gospels...

March 2009

March 04, 2009

Misrecognition

Misrecognition is one of those important terms in anthropology that is so useful that you...

January 2009

January 19, 2009

An American Prophet

Mormons are not the only prophetic tradition in America. The African American spiritual community also...

October 2008

October 10, 2008

Righteous Dissent?

Paul's bitter dispute with Peter and James poses a problem for thinking about LDS notions...

October 01, 2008

Spiritual Twinkies and Acceptable Criticism

In the 1990's, I recall a strong movement against a pernicious offense in church education....

June 2008

June 06, 2008

Uzzah Killed For Blind Obedience

Let me start out by saying I’m a big, big fan of obedience. And I...

May 2008

May 16, 2008

The Holy Person in Mormonism?

Eve's recent post at ZD on the magical GA got me thinking about how such...

April 2008

April 10, 2008

Elder Holland’s Subversive Message?

At the risk of stirring controversy against my absolute favorite Apostle, I want to ask...

April 07, 2008

What if…?

What if someone ordained their wife to the priesthood? Let's say that this husband wanted...

March 2008

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 09, 2007

The DeMcConkie-izing of the Church

Elder McConkie, I think, made large contributions to the Church. He systematized and provided the...

October 2007

October 08, 2007

Holiness and Housework: The Sacred and the Mundane

One of the most influential theories for explaining religion over the last 50 years has...

October 06, 2007

The Excommunication of Father Feeney

In 1953, Pope Pius XII excommunicated Father Feeney for refusing to submit to ecclesiastical authority....

September 2007

September 25, 2007

The Informal “You” In European Missions

Everyone knows that missionary work in Europe is a massive failure. The church has need...

July 2007

July 12, 2007

Probing Interviews

There is a recent movement in a stake that I am aware of for Bishops...

May 2007

May 20, 2007

The “Vote of Thanks”

I've been a Mormon all my life. Sadly, I mostly tune out during sacrament meeting,...

December 2006

December 06, 2006

Women’s Religious Authority

I am currently reading a fascinating book on medieval mysticism that argues that the rise...

October 2006

October 10, 2006

Mandatory Repentence Periods?

It appears that a new instruction manual to bishops requires certain "waiting periods" for prospective...

October 05, 2006

A Crisis in the Church

No, this post is not about low baptism numbers, low retention numbers, or low commandment...

October 03, 2006

What is the Priesthood?

Having not been to Relief Society in a long time, I don't know if this...

October 01, 2006

Anti-Intellectualism

I firmly believe that Latter-day Saints not only have nothing to fear from the academic...

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