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July 2012

July 26, 2012

Faith-Promoting [Not] History

Several weeks ago we had a sacrament meeting talk that remains on my mind. The...

April 2012

April 17, 2012

Baptizing Vicariously and the Problems of Universalism

I haven't posted for a while, so I was checking through some of my drafts...

October 2009

October 13, 2009

The Mormon Rawls Project: The Original Position and the Council in Heaven I

Authors note: The following is the second in my Mormon Rawls Project Series. It is...

August 2009

August 04, 2009

The Good Samaritan as The Other

The parable of the Good Samaritan is well known and much beloved. The image of...

July 2009

July 22, 2009

Is Greed Good?

This is the topic for the newest Public Square discussion over at Patheos. I particularly...

June 2009

June 25, 2009

Brand Spanking New

Like many Christians I like to read and re-read Romans 5-8. Paul uses very vivid...

December 2008

December 29, 2008

Myth, Modernity, and Mormonism

The category of "myth" is arguably the most important for evaluating the Bible in the...

November 2008

November 20, 2008

The Always Placid Mormons

...is how we are described by the Catholic blogger who writes as "The Anchoress." I...

November 18, 2008

No Time

The 20th comment on David Clark's "Mormon Anxieties" post comments that the request to support...

November 01, 2008

Chris H. is moving to….

...his own blog. I have enjoyed my almost three years here at FPR. But it...

September 2008

September 07, 2008

Been Sittin’ On My Butt…

The first words of his testimony today were "Been sittin' on my butt at home...

August 2008

August 21, 2008

Get Thee to a Grad School

In recent weeks both TT and Chris have each made controversial posts. By this I...

August 09, 2008

Pick Romney….Please

With the Olympics started it looks like all of the VP chatter will have...

June 2008

June 27, 2008

Process-ease and other Linguistic Pet Peeves

I'm not a prescriptivist when it comes to language. That is, when a foreign-speaking missionary...

June 10, 2008

Provo-based Media and the Priesthood Ban

SCANDAL! Read on for details... Given the many posts in the 'nacle devoted to Sunday's...

April 2008

April 11, 2008

Feral Children and Divinity

I recently reintroduced myself to the study of feral children, children who have been abandoned...

March 2008

March 03, 2008

The Problem with Laughter

Last night I attended a baptism that was accompanied by much laughter and merry-making, which...

January 2008

January 26, 2008

Priesthood, Temple, and Semantics

Most people know that in our current arrangement, young men tend to receive the priesthood...

October 2007

October 17, 2007

Curses!

A discussion I had recently with a friend of mine reminded me of one of...

October 08, 2007

The myth of applying all scripture

An argument that I occasionally see floated in blogs is the argument that ideas are...

October 03, 2007

Is the “Family” the problem?

It is evident that the LDS church has made the institution of the nuclear family...

June 2007

June 12, 2007

I know that Mitt is true.

In testimony meeting this month, a good sister bore testimony of Mitt Romney. She stated...

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,...

April 2007

April 26, 2007

Scholars and Prophets

I presented a paper at the Yale conference in February in which I argued that...

March 2007

March 26, 2007

A Note on a Footnote in Mt 28:20

Last Sunday as I was preparing to teach GD I noticed an odd footnote associated with...

March 24, 2007

Pharisees and Anti-Judaism

Modern Mormons often claim to be philo-Judaic through kinship claims and belief in a shared...

March 09, 2007

A tentative list of general LDS biases in approaches to the Bible

Scholars have a tendency to operate on shorthand and stereotype whenever they feel like they...

January 2007

January 25, 2007

A Bigger House

In case you’ve just stopped by, I’ve been blogging on an article by Professor Kent...

January 24, 2007

Inside the House

Professor Kent P. Jackson’s 6 Jan 07 Church News article, “Sacred Study” proposes a uniquely...

January 23, 2007

A House Divided

The January 6, 2007 edition of the Church News contained an article entitled “Sacred Study”...

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