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January 2013

January 14, 2013

@askmormongirl Joanna Brooks should say the Inaugural Benediction.

The invocation at President Obama's Second Inauguration will be delivered by civil rights hero Myrlie...

January 08, 2013

Public Prayer: Myrlie Evers-Williams to Pray at Inauguration

The Obama inauguration team has announced that Myrlie Evers-Williams will be delivering the invocation at...

January 05, 2013

Some Problems with Book of Mormon Historicity

I was recently perusing the latest publications of NAMI and happened on an article in...

January 01, 2013

FPR Best of 2012 Edition

This year was an interesting year for FPR. We moved to Patheos at this time...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

social media and (not scholarship but) graffiti?

There was some exciting discussion developing here the other day about such topics as how smart it...

December 20, 2012

Santa as the Ghost of Christmas Present (What Santa Means to Me) 2012 Edition

Author's Note: this is a minor revision and update of a post I wrote for...

December 16, 2012

Protesting at Church

I protest at church all the time. I scoffed out loud at a hideous comment...

December 14, 2012

Wallace Bennett on the Role of Compromise in Government.

The June 1976 Ensign magazine has long been a favorite of mine. It deals with...

December 13, 2012

Sandel’s Intro to Rawls and Distributive Justice (Video Fixed)

Rawls is not easy to understand. This is largely because of how Rawls presents his...

December 07, 2012

Change and Power: A Response to Nate Oman

The analysis of power seems to be something that I care about. Whether it is...

December 05, 2012

Be Still, My Soul: Remembering Heidi and Jim at Casper College

Yesterday, Casper College held a memorial service for Jim Krumm and Heidi Arnold, the two...

December 03, 2012

Regional AAR Call for Papers

PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION AAR/SBL/ASOR Regional Meeting Seattle University Seattle, Washington May 3-5, 2013 SPECIAL TOPICS:...

December 02, 2012

Thousands leaving the LDS Church over the Documentary Hypothesis

Reports have come to FPR that currently there is a massive exodus from the church...

November 2012

November 24, 2012

Mormons and Palestinians: Justice and only Justice

With the tragic recent escalation of conflict in Israel-Palestine, my thoughts have turned to experiences...

November 19, 2012

Rorty on Truth

I do not go as far as the late Richard Rorty when it comes to...

November 15, 2012

Cornel West on How Intellectuals Betrayed the Poor

I met Cornel West last year in San Francisco at the American Academy of Religion....

November 14, 2012

Petreius

I'm totally disappointed that learned, waggish friends on social media are not talking more about Marcus Petreius. I mean the dude's...

November 12, 2012

Letting the Nibley Family defend Nibley

I had originally intended to start a series of posts on Hugh Nibley I have...

November 11, 2012

Kristine Haglund on “The Word.”

Kristine is a my hero. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxgz9LHFRC4&sns=em UPDATE: I should thank Sunstone for this video. For...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

my stab at proper balance between the intellectual and the spiritual, for now anyway

Here's the other post in the series so far and where you'll also find a...

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...

October 15, 2012

Series Announcement: Faith, Scholarship, and Teaching at BYU

It is academic job application season and for the last little while Church History and...

October 12, 2012

Remembering Matthew Shepard

I now live in Matthew Sheperd's hometown. He had studied at political science Casper College...

October 11, 2012

Faith and Knowledge Conference Reminder; Philip Barlow as Keynote

CALL FOR PAPERS – OCTOBER 15: THE FOURTH BIENNIAL FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE WESLEY THEOLOGICAL...

October 10, 2012

Breaking News: UVa Announces Chair in Mormon Studies

Today the University of Virginia is announcing the intent to establish the Richard Lyman Bushman...

October 09, 2012

Symbolic Pluralism

John Rawls defines pluralism as the existence of many conflicting comprehensive doctrines (religious and secular)...

October 08, 2012

LDS Dems

I didn't go to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte last month However, my friend...

October 07, 2012

Historicizing God

There is a certain apologetic strand of Mormon reflection on the Bible that points out...

October 05, 2012

Hi, I’m Brandon. I’m a Father. I’m a Husband. And I’m a Mormon…Democrat.

The Brandon Flowers "I'm a Mormon" video got a lot of buzz and for good...

October 04, 2012

Not Heavenly Mother…Pink Floyd Mother (covered by Pearl Jam)

There has been a number of rather contentious and awkward conversations about Heavenly Mother on...

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