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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

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...

February 2008

February 22, 2008

Exchanging Orthodoxy for Orthopraxy

I tend to make few comments during lessons in Sunday School or Priesthood, even when...

October 2007

October 17, 2007

Curses!

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

September 2007

September 23, 2007

The Next Level of Sunday School

My experience in my new ward over the past month has reinforced to me the...

June 2007

June 25, 2007

Can Someone Help Me Understand…

What I have in my hands here is a nice, large can filled with worms....

May 2007

May 24, 2007

The Trouble With Belief

I have just finished another semester of VCR repairperson school and because I am an...

April 2007

April 13, 2007

One Eternal Nightmare

It was kind of odd that anyone even found her that day. She was alone,...

February 2007

February 21, 2007

The Best Books?

In today's Daily Unifarce, I mean... Universe, buried in the back (on p.11) was an...

February 15, 2007

Orthodoxy VS. Orthopraxy

I've been pondering (much akin to Pinky and the Brain) about the place of the...

February 06, 2007

Defending BYU and LDS Biblical Scholarship

Defending BYU

January 2007

January 22, 2007

“My Husband is a Socialist”

Here is another post that does not fit in with the normal FPR post: I...

November 2006

November 21, 2006

Twas the Morning After SBL

Do you remember Christmas morning as a kid? That pile of loot from Santa followed...

November 15, 2006

I like the nightlife; I like to boogie

Hey, Bibliobloggers! Come to the DC bloggersnacker! Go here and pretend to look up the...

November 06, 2006

Petitionary Prayer

It is a common introductory problem in theology to think about the purpose of petitionary...

November 01, 2006

Alternative Lifestyles

One of the constraining aspects of Mormonism is that it seems to shut down alternative...

October 2006

October 29, 2006

On Being Disturbed

The Gospel of Thomas preserves a version of Jesus's familiar saying about searching and finding,...

October 18, 2006

My Ideological Journey

I grew up a very right wing conservative in the Maryland Suburbs of Washington, DC....

October 11, 2006

Sex, Reproductive Technology, and Mormon Doctrine

This is not a post about whether birth control should be permitted, or about stem-cell...

October 10, 2006

Mandatory Repentence Periods?

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

August 2006

August 01, 2006

A Tale of Two Feminists

The Book of Revelation features four female figures: Jezebel (2:20), the Cosmic Woman (12:1-5, 13-17),...

July 2006

July 26, 2006

Three Messages

Like many of the Saints, I find that the temple has a variety of messages....

July 07, 2006

Northern Lights Tonight

It may be possible for many in North America to see the Northern Lights this...

July 05, 2006

Uneasy in RS

In an RS meeting some time ago I was mildly startled to hear the teacher...

June 2006

June 29, 2006

Kristen Cox: BYU and Md

Shout out to the 'Nacle and particularly the Nacle's feminists. Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich (R)...

June 29, 2006

“My Heavenly Father”

“That’s not what my Father in Heaven would do,” said the older gentleman in the...

June 20, 2006

The Word We’re Looking For is “Rape.”

The GD lesson manual makes the following comment regarding the story of Amnon and Tamar:...

April 2006

April 26, 2006

The New Me

After about a week of retirement, I have decided to come back (technically, it took...

February 2006

February 17, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: Bracketology

Ever since I started the Historical Mormon Smackdown thing last year, I have had a...

January 2006

January 25, 2006

Bibleworks 7 Is Out

Here's the announcement of Bibleworks 7. I'll probably be ordering the update. I am, however,...

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