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November 2009

November 25, 2009

OTFTW 1: Out of the Best Books

For your post-turkey degustation, I present this list I handed out in Gospel Doctrine recently,...

November 25, 2009

Lacking Celestial Motivation

Before leaving on my mission I spent several evenings teaming up with the missionaries in...

November 20, 2009

Old Testament FTW! Introduction

Around here, we love us some Old Testament. And so, as D&C winds down and...

November 19, 2009

Historic. Orthodox. Christianity.

Many contemporary Christians subscribe to a certain normative fable of a "historic orthodox Christianity." This...

November 15, 2009

“Preparing minds to be faithful”- A Sacrament Mtg Talk

I spoke in Sacrament meeting a few weeks ago. My assigned topic was anything to...

November 03, 2009

Of Analogies, Rorschach Tests, and Elder Oaks

It might seem a little mundane to say that a single analogy can be used...

October 2009

October 28, 2009

Why Margaret Barker is Right

It is no secret that in the past I have not pulled many punches when...

October 27, 2009

A Glimpse of Public Reason: Lincoln and Rawls (Mormon Rawls Project)

Author's note: I originally posted this at Approaching Justice. The talk by Elder Oaks has...

October 27, 2009

Globalizing the Word of Wisdom

I overheard part of an interesting discussion this past Sunday when a member of our...

October 22, 2009

Criticism of Leaders and Inerrancy

Using Elder Oaks' guide to would-be critics of church leaders, I'd like to explore some...

October 21, 2009

Recycled Posts on Criticism

The topic of "criticism" of Church leaders has arisen again in the blogs in response...

October 20, 2009

Religion and Politics: The Philosophical Problem and its Contemporary Implications

BYU’S TOCQUEVILLE PROJECT With funding from THE JOHN ADAMS CENTER For the Study of Faith,...

October 19, 2009

Free Exercise of Religion…and Sex

In the recent talk by Elder Oaks to BYU-I addressing the topic of the constitutional...

October 06, 2009

The Mormon Rawls Project: Introduction

John Rawls is a prominent 20th century philosopher. While his work is well respected, it...

September 2009

September 25, 2009

Pan-Templism and Early Christians

There is a strong intellectual current among some popular LDS personalities and bloggers (and a...

September 22, 2009

R-e-s-p-e-c-t

Sorry to our dear readers who've suffered in our recent absence. For me, the start...

August 2009

August 17, 2009

Testimony and Ethics

Testimony is clearly a central component of Latter-day Saint thought and culture. Testimony is a...

August 12, 2009

Who Lectures on the Book of Mormon?

I'm a big fan of The Teaching Company. They have lots of good stuff on...

August 02, 2009

Corianton’s major sin was … (fill in the blank)

[Note: In analyzing the passage describing Corianton’s sins, I do not seek to undermine in...

July 2009

July 21, 2009

Lowered Expectations?

One meme that is constantly bandied about the bloggernacle is the idea that people leave...

July 15, 2009

My Thomas Marsh Experience

Edit: This post is in response to the Thomas Marsh discussion here. I was recently...

July 14, 2009

The Word

This is a talk I gave many years ago, slightly modified. I have had a...

July 14, 2009

Polls Close Tomorrow!

If you haven't yet voted in this year's Niblets, stroll on over to Mormon Matters...

July 09, 2009

What Most Influences FPR Bloggers’ Reading of the Bible? Updated

Ken Brown at the blog C. Orthodoxy started a meme asking bloggers involved in biblical...

July 09, 2009

Make Me More Interesting

I recently turned 25 and realized that there are a lot of things that I don't...

July 05, 2009

Archaeology, History, and Scripture Part 3: The Historicity Question

In previous posts in this series I have danced around the historicity question. In this...

June 2009

June 26, 2009

A Review of Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons

What follows is my review of the film <a href="http://www.untoldstoryofblackmormons.com/"Nobody Knows, The Untold Story of...

June 22, 2009

My FPR/FMH Father’s Day

I like to think of FPR and FMH as the polar opposites of the bloggernacle....

June 19, 2009

Did Man or God Create Woman? Feminist Interpretations of the Story of Eve and Adam

Did Adam or God Create Eve? Perhaps no text has influenced current gender roles and...

June 13, 2009

Archaeology, History, and Scripture Part 2: The Four Schools of Old Testament Historicity

In my previous post I mentioned that there are four major schools of thought when...

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