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December 2006

December 24, 2006

Immanuel = Christ?

This time of year Isaiah gets more airtime than at any other point in the...

December 19, 2006

What’s wrong with idol worship?

The lesson in priesthood this past Sunday was on signs of the second coming (based...

December 12, 2006

The Fruits of the Spirit: Confusion, Honesty and Depression

Someone I know very well is prone to a religious form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder,...

December 10, 2006

Believing Blood: Mormonism as a New Race

Mormons adopted the language of race and ethnicity to describe themselves from the very early...

December 09, 2006

New Look!

We were finally upgraded to Blogger Beta! We are still testing out many of the...

December 04, 2006

The BoM’s “J” Source: Joseph Smith

I’m intrigued by Blake Ostler’s 1987 paper “the book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion...

November 2006

November 29, 2006

Proper Practice Makes a Good Mormon

I’m going to have to admit here that I keep up with little of the...

November 25, 2006

A Mormon Democrat for President in 3010 (we’re realistic)

A new poll found that 43% of Americans would not vote for a Mormon presidential...

November 21, 2006

Proper Metaphors for Porn (and Sex)

I attended a meeting recently where a general authority (from the first quorum of the...

November 18, 2006

Bring all of the Good, just not Mary, Buddha, the Rebbe, the Koran…

President Hinckley’s message that potential converts from different religions should “bring all of the good”...

November 15, 2006

Interesting Conflicts

In this month's Friend, my wife and I were intrigued by a section toward the...

November 13, 2006

The Documentary Hypothesis: Do you Believe?

Mormon scholars tend to be ambivalent towards the Documentary Hypothesis, the model of current biblical...

November 05, 2006

Mormon Studies, Big Money and U.

At the risk of sending our blog off on a tangent, I think we should...

November 04, 2006

NKOTB: Handle

We wish to extend the warmest welcome to our newest blogger, Handle. Handle is an...

November 03, 2006

Ancient Near Eastern Studies at BYU

On the advice of more experienced bloggers, I'm posting a (very slightly modified) comment I...

November 01, 2006

BYU’s Dept. of Religious “Education”

I'm sure many of us have realized that BYU's Religion Department uses the title "Religious...

October 2006

October 30, 2006

Pious Pumpkins

This time of year always gets me thinking about how I can express what I...

October 29, 2006

Comments Contest! Real Prizes!!

Dear Readers,We have been having a good number of visitors to our site since our...

October 25, 2006

Is Every Nation the Gathering Place for its Own People?

The concept of gathering is a central feature of Mormonism. We often talk of the...

October 21, 2006

Do We Really Have a Fullness of Truth? : Dealing with Difference Part III

If you know any Latter-day Saint that has an understanding of religions other than Mormonism...

October 16, 2006

Newest Urban Blogger!

Jupiter's Child has just joined the team! He is a relative newcomer to the blogging...

October 13, 2006

Can Mormons see Grey? Dealing with Difference Part II

Roughly speaking we can talk of two different ways of conceptualizing a world imbued with...

October 08, 2006

New Blog Team Member: diahman

We've just added the newest member to team Urban Mormonism. Diahman is an anonymous bloggernacle...

October 08, 2006

Dealing with Difference: A Taxonomy

How do we as Latter-day Saints reconcile differences? At this point I would like to...

October 01, 2006

Why another Mormon blog?

Look, I know that there is a glut of blogs on Mormonism. However, I have...

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