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March 2016

March 03, 2016

Plaster Wall Inscription 4.2: El, Baal, and YHWH

I have put up a draft of my study on plaster wall inscription 4.2 from Kuntillet...

March 02, 2016

Who is Baal?

A little post on the god Baal at my blog.

February 2016

February 18, 2016

Give Mormon liberals a break

The follow post reproduces a post at M* nearly identically. Spending any time at all...

February 02, 2016

Historical events as the basis of religious belief

I thought this was a nice quote relevant to the perils of choosing history as...

February 01, 2016

YHWH and his asherah

For those interested, I have posted an updated version of an article on the meaning...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

Daniel Peterson and Admitting Defeat

Some people just get a pass. It's not right but it's the way things are....

January 31, 2016

The Quest for the Historical (Mormon) Jesus

In the last three centuries of Jesus research, an important and powerful idea emerged that...

January 29, 2016

Too Close to Call? Daniel Peterson in the Deseret News

Recently, FPR bloggers have alleged that Daniel Peterson's recent Deseret News column closely followed the author's...

January 20, 2016

Mac and Cheese Apologetics

When I think of Mac and Cheese, I tend to think of the boxed product...

January 18, 2016

The Invention of God

For those interested, I've posted a review of Thomas Römer's The Invention of God (2015) on my...

January 12, 2016

On Maintaining Integrity in Difficult Circumstances

Over the pope as the expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority there still...

January 09, 2016

Review of Brant A. Gardner, Traditions of the Fathers: The Book of Mormon as History

I finally found time over the holidays to read Brant Gardner’s Traditions of the...

December 2015

December 23, 2015

Congrats Stephen Smoot

We here at FPR have learned that Mr. Stephen Smoot has been accepted into the...

December 09, 2015

Authority is Our Sacred Cow, and It Must be Domesticated

I believe that there are members of our faith that would engage in acts of...

November 2015

November 12, 2015

To the General Presidents of the Women’s Auxiliaries

Dear Sisters, As a Relief Society president in a small unit outside of Utah I...

November 11, 2015

Tips on Being an Independent Scholar: Cheryl L. Bruno

1)Tell us about your background, education, and career goals when you were just starting out?...

October 2015

October 24, 2015

Nahom and Lehi’s Journey through Arabia: A Historical Perspective, Part 3

Our investigations so far in Part 1 and Part 2 have concluded that the...

October 21, 2015

Clarifying “How the CES Letter Works”

One purpose of my previous post was to highlight the way in which the intent...

October 20, 2015

How the CES Letter Works

Since its publication in 2013, the “Letter to a CES Director” has gained lots of...

October 06, 2015

Nahom and Lehi’s Journey through Arabia: A Historical Perspective, Part 2

In part 1 we discussed how the journey of Lehi through Arabia described in...

September 2015

September 23, 2015

Paul and the three degrees of glory

Even though D&C 76 was prompted by revision of John 5:29, it also creatively draws...

September 16, 2015

What was not discussed in Sunday school this week

In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul, on the one hand, takes it for granted that women...

September 14, 2015

Nahom and Lehi’s Journey through Arabia: A Historical Perspective, Part 1

The issue of Nahom as evidence of the BoM’s antiquity has recently been a...

September 08, 2015

Why BYU Destroyed Ancient Book of Mormon Studies

Mostly because it isn't very good scholarship, but also because it hasn't produced a single...

September 01, 2015

New Article at Dialogue

For those who do not have a subscription to Dialogue or have not yet heard,...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

BYUNTC Revelation

The Revelation volume in the BYUNTC series is back in the news, so I thought...

April 2015

April 05, 2015

A Recent “Anti-Mormon” Essay: Trying to Understand Gee’s Response, Part II

In the last post I looked closely at the details of Dr. John Gee’s critique...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

A Recent “Anti-Mormon” Essay: Trying to Understand Gee’s Response, Part I

The most recent volume of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies (JBMS) includes a...

March 23, 2015

Doubt is Not Always a Choice

Doubt is not always a matter of choice. With regard to many LDSs who experience...

March 19, 2015

On Doubt and Trust

Doubt can be thought of as a kind of questioning; and to question is to...

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