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August 2010

August 12, 2010

Ethics As An Interpretive Lens

How should we evaluate and adjudicate doctrinal and practical matters? As LDS we look to...

August 04, 2010

The Fun Never Ends: Prop. 8 found to be Unconstitutional

By Maura Dolan Los Angeles Times Staff Writer San Francisco — A federal judge in...

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...

July 27, 2010

The Hierarchy of Truth

Narratives wield a power measured not in historical accuracy but in effect on the reader....

July 27, 2010

Welcome Guest Blogger: Enoch

We'd like to welcome Enoch as our latest guest blogger! Enoch holds and/or is working...

July 19, 2010

A Hospital for Those Infected with Ph.D.

Most of my advisors tell me something to the effect that they don't know any...

July 17, 2010

Socrates, The Crito, and Me: On being a Ute

In Plato’s dialogue Crito, Socrates tells his friend Crito that he cannot flee his death...

July 16, 2010

Some more on true/false and academic responsibility (a.k.a. intellectual honesty)

*As will soon become apparent, I have been influenced by several posts of late. You...

July 14, 2010

Happy Bastille Day!

There's no bread, let them eat cake There's no end to what they'll take Flaunt...

July 12, 2010

What is an Intellectual?

In a recent post about the loneliness that LDS humanities scholars can face in their...

July 05, 2010

God is an American

Okay, not really. While many of us cringe at the heavy doses of American exceptionalism...

July 04, 2010

Not Ready To Make Nice

I almost made it 6 weeks without posting. Not commenting only lasted about two weeks....

July 04, 2010

Cosmopolitanism: An Alternative to Patriotism

Author's note 2010: I had hoped to write a new post for this year, but...

July 02, 2010

Do Relationships Make the Church True and False?

I have a theory that I'd like to test about the sociology of knowledge and...

June 2010

June 25, 2010

Does the BOM take it easy on Satan?

So a few weeks ago I was reviewing some recent, secondary literature on the famous...

June 22, 2010

How Students Destroyed BYU Religious Education

From what I understand from teachers and students there, it is not an understatement to...

June 17, 2010

Your chance to re-make NT history

The Church Audiovisual Department Casting Office is looking to fill 30 plus roles for a new NT film...

June 15, 2010

Howard W. Hunter Chair Available

The opening for the Howard W. Hunter Chair in Mormon Studies at Claremont was posted...

June 15, 2010

The Latest on the Curse of Ham

The Bloggernacle has featured no shortage of posts on the Curse of Ham. At the...

June 09, 2010

Abraham, Thrice-Great Hermes, and Plato

In my last post I wondered aloud whether Nephi Sails the Ship of State. Since...

June 09, 2010

Review: Mormon Scholars Testify

Mormon Scholars Testify is a new website sponsored by the folks at the Foundation for...

May 2010

May 25, 2010

I think I am done. Thanks.

Blogging has been a big part of my life over the last 5 years.. I...

May 24, 2010

Symptoms of Parallel-o-Mania

I recently came across this presentation by Daniel Peterson given at the annual FAIR Conference...

May 21, 2010

Care and the Liberal Theory of Justice

The feminist idea of care is both a response to the canon of ethical and...

May 18, 2010

There are no Private Choices?

I taught Sunday School this past week, and in preparation I came across the following...

May 17, 2010

Feminism and the Social Contract

Introduction A feminist analysis of any major thinker or school of thought within the historical...

May 11, 2010

Wealth and Pride in the OT

I taught parts of Deuteronomy in my Sunday School class this past Sunday. The class...

May 11, 2010

Nephi Sails the Ship of State?

The reception history of Plato’s Republic has obviously been extensive, from Cicero’s De re publica...

May 10, 2010

On the Saying “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin”

Not sure if I hate the sin, but I hate this saying. I have been...

May 02, 2010

Lowell Bennion and a Liberal Mormon Theology: Series Intro

I brought Lowell Bennion’s “Do Justly and Love Mercy: Moral Issues for Mormons” to church...

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