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January 2016

January 26, 2016

To the Editors of the Deseret News

Dear Sir / Ma'am: I was interested to read in your edition of Thursday, January...

October 2013

October 15, 2013

A Mormon’s Serenity Prayer

God, grant me the courage to question my leaders; the humility to accept their answers; and the prudence...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

Israel’s Past Without the Bible

It may come as a surprise to some that there are texts from ancient Israel,...

February 13, 2013

The Evolution of Faith: or is God Creating a Better Mormonism?

Not long after the Evolution of Faith: How God is Creating a Better Christianity was published,...

January 2013

January 13, 2013

Faith as a Relationship

I recently heard somebody refer to faith as a verb. While many verbs are involved...

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...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

Ten Tidbits About the Ten Commandments

1. Although commonly referred to as the "Ten Commandments," in the Hebrew Bible itself they are...

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...

April 17, 2012

Now Reading… Bad Religion

Published this AM, by Ross Douthout. Amazing what Kindle can do, no? So the "problem,"...

March 2012

March 01, 2012

Knowing: Why Care?

Why do we care if we know rather than merely believe? Both in religion and...

February 2012

February 29, 2012

Mormon Ways of Knowing

Years ago I got a call from someone from one of the major LDS book...

February 17, 2012

“Have You Been Saved?”

To oversimplify things a bit, Mormon notions of salvation are more consistent with Paul, while...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

Mormons and Wild Geese

The first line of Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese" seems as at odds with Mormonism...

September 2011

September 09, 2011

On Biblical Scripture

The Problem What makes Biblical Scripture, Scripture for LDS Christians?* Historically one prominent model for...

August 2011

August 16, 2011

The Flood: Global or Localized?

I would argue neither. With the rising tide of modern science, historical criticism, and other...

July 2011

July 07, 2011

The Value of Mormon Liturgical Theology

Liturgy is prescribed or ritualized forms of public worship. For instance, the LDS Sacrament (=...

June 2011

June 08, 2011

Book Review: Schweizer, “Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism”

Title: Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism Author: Bernard Schweizer Publisher: Oxford University Press...

June 06, 2011

“Sounds like Satan’s plan!”

From the recent Newsweek coverage of us Mormons: Congressman Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) sees an even...

March 2011

March 14, 2011

Would Jesus “Stick to the Manual”?

Recently I was asked to fill in as Gospel Doctrine teacher. I thoroughly enjoy the...

February 2011

February 04, 2011

Edward Tullidge’s Miltonian “Gathering of the Grand Council of Hell”

In 1858 Edward Tullidge wrote to Brigham Young to volunteer himself as the epic chronicler...

February 03, 2011

Guarding the Temple: Our Procession to a Better Understanding; a Response to David L.

David L., who recently joined M*, and I have been having a really wonderful conversation...

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...

January 23, 2011

The Blessings of an Unknown God

This post could be called anti-Areopagean, since in a reversal of the Acts 17 narrative,...

January 14, 2011

1 Enoch in Jude’s “Bible”: Issues of Canonicity and Scriptural Inspiration

Jude 1:5-7 (NRSV): Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, that...

January 05, 2011

Isaiah 7:14 and Scriptural Hermeneutics

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and...

January 05, 2011

The Dumbing Down of Mormon Books, Made Easy!

A recent book review of Eric Shuster and Charles Sale's The Biblical Roots of Mormonism describes...

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...

November 2010

November 03, 2010

Dawkins versus the 'ultimate ground of all being'

In God and the New Atheism, John F. Haught describes what he sees as the...

July 2010

July 31, 2010

(Re)writing the Bible in Antiquity and Today

CANON The New Testament writers and early Church Fathers used the Septuagint (LXX) for proof...

March 2010

March 29, 2010

My God Is Bigger Than Your God–Literally. Part VI

Although YHWH clearly was perceived by biblical authors in anthropomorphic terms, YHWH’s body was still...

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