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March 2006

March 26, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: Final Four announcement [corrected]

The Elite Eight results are: 1 - Joseph Smith 23 9 - Gordon B. Hinckley...

March 25, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: We need your votes

The Joseph Smith/Gordon B. Hinckley race is a tie. Do not let it be so!...

March 24, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: Elite Eight

1 - Joseph Smith vs. 9 - Gordon B. Hinckley Which is the more influential...

March 23, 2006

Free will, rocks, and Camus

Since we are all in an uproar regarding free will (see here, here, and here),...

March 23, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: Sweet Sixteen wrap-up

I am writing up proposals and applications at the moment, so things have been too...

March 21, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: Sweet Sixteen, Day Two

The results from yesterday are: 1 - Joseph Smith 29 3 - Bruce R. McConkie...

March 21, 2006

Who Was Translated?

As near as I can tell, Joseph Smith seems to have identified all the men...

March 20, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: Sweet Sixteen, Day One

Here we go: 1 - Joseph Smith vs. 3 - Bruce R. McConkie Which is...

March 17, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Round Two Wrap-up or “Clearly, we are in apostasy”

Yesterday's results: 9 - Gordon B. Hinckley 19 4 - Joseph F. Smith 3 11...

March 16, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: Round Two, Day Four

Yesterday's results: 3 - Bruce R. McConkie 20 10 - David O. McKay 9 9...

March 15, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: Round Two, Day Three

Yesterday's results: 11 - Hugh Nibley 16 2 - Brigham Young 15 10 - Tithing...

March 14, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness, Round Two Day Two

Yesterday's results: 1- Joseph Smith 26 12 - James Talmage 6 11 - Restoration of...

March 13, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: Round Two, Day One

1 - Joseph Smith vs. 12 - James Talmage Which is the more influential force...

March 10, 2006

“Dear Bloggernacle, What were you thinking?” or a Review of the First Round of MMDM

First of all, let's get yesterday's final results out of the way: 4 - Joseph...

March 08, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: Round One, Day Four

The results from yesterday: 3 - Bruce R. McConkie 22 14 - Orson Scott Card...

March 06, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: Round One, Day Three

There have been a lot of tight battles thusfar in the Tournament. Some upsets that...

March 03, 2006

One day delay in March Mormon Doctrine Madness

I apologize. Things are busier now than I planned for and I need to install...

March 02, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: Round One, Day Two – Edited

The winners from yesterday were 1 - Joseph Smith 23 16 - Truman Madsen 2...

March 01, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness – Round One, Day One – Fixed

Today's games: 1 - Joseph Smith vs. 16 - Truman Madsen Joseph Smith: 1st prophet...

February 2006

February 24, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: The Rules

In March, as you know, we will be running a tournament of sorts. I would...

February 17, 2006

March Mormon Doctrine Madness: Bracketology

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

February 13, 2006

Historical Jesus: Italian Trial Ends

An atheist who sued a small-town priest for saying that Jesus Christ existed has had...

February 10, 2006

Does anyone ever humble themselves?

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

February 07, 2006

Historical Mormon Smackdown: Relative General Authority Edition!

Last week, blogpoll went nuts and I made a mistake which meant that the people...

February 03, 2006

Secular Sam’s Guide to the OT: The Lineage and Honors of Cain

No story in the OT is ever wasted, and the story of Cain and his...

January 2006

January 31, 2006

Historical Jesus 5: The Baptism of Jesus

Parts 3 and 4 of this series on the Historical Jesus were a summary of...

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...

January 26, 2006

Historical Jesus 4: More Criteria

Since the majority of our information about Jesus comes from the Gospels, when we try...

January 20, 2006

Classical Figures in the Creation and Fall Narratives

Anthropopatheia is the name of the figure used to describe the ascription of human passions,...

January 16, 2006

Historical Jesus 3: The Criteria

Although the majority of our information about the historical Jesus comes from the Gospels, these...

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