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2014-05-01T14:06:51-05:00

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Pseudonyms and the Ad Hominem

Last updated on: May 1, 2014 at 2:06 pm By TT

Let me share my observations about being a pseudonymous Mormon blogger for over a decade. There is a common belief that bloggers who “hide” behind a pseudonym will abuse that position to do bad things. My experience, however, has not born this out. Instead, the pseudonymous blogger is often the target of rude treatment that is not only socially acceptable but even cheered on by some. (more…) Read more

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2014-04-25T10:01:32-05:00

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Bill Hamblin on the Documentary Hypothesis

Last updated on: April 25, 2014 at 10:01 am By jupiterschild

Bill Hamblin has done a great service in providing a detailed outsider’s critique, repeating some of the frequent objections to the Documentary Hypothesis that gives us a chance to discuss and hopefully to reach greater clarity on the issue. Since Hamblin has shut down and deleted comments for anyone whose names don’t seem real enough to him, and (more important) since his 20-part attempted takedown of the Documentary Hypothesis (the theory that the first 5 books of the OT are... Read more

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2014-04-11T14:30:01-05:00

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Female Voice and the Prophetess Huldah

Last updated on: April 11, 2014 at 2:30 pm By RT

There has been a lot of talk lately about gender equality and whether women have real voices in the church vis a vis the all male priesthood. Of course, the standard position of church leaders is that women are equally valued and that their perspectives are given full and appropriate consideration given the divinely ordained channels of revelation to the regularly constituted authorities. But somehow this rhetoric that “women are equally valued and listened to” has not been able to... Read more

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2014-04-08T21:40:39-05:00

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Challenging Church Leadership

Last updated on: April 8, 2014 at 9:40 pm By TT

The following is a reprint of a post originally written in Oct 2008. Something reminded me of it and I decided to share it again. Paul’s bitter dispute with Peter and James poses a problem for thinking about LDS notions of authority because it puts into tension church authority and moral and doctrinal issues. When true doctrine and church leadership are in conflict, how are we to make a choice between them? When our sense of what is moral conflicts... Read more

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2014-04-04T00:59:49-05:00

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Some non-arguments against ordaining women to the LDS priesthood

Last updated on: April 4, 2014 at 12:59 am By jupiterschild

I’m sure all these things have been said before and better, but in order to satisfy my need to respond to some of the assertions presented as self-evident arguments against opening the LDS priesthood to women, I collect my responses here. Here are my top five non-arguments [with a sixth I couldn’t resist]: 1. Men and women are not the same. 2. Women have moral authority. 3. There is no scriptural precedent for ordaining women. 4. There is scriptural precedent... Read more

2014-04-01T08:46:11-05:00

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I am the newest BYU Prof!

Last updated on: April 1, 2014 at 8:46 am By TT

Many of my close friends and family already know this, so it won’t be a surprise to them, but I am still giddy to announce that I have accepted a job at BYU Religious Education starting in Fall 2014. Hiring decisions were recently made public, so I can finally share the good news with our readers. My life-partner and I will be moving to Orem this July, so let us know where we can find a supportive ward! I would... Read more

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2014-03-28T07:48:38-05:00

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FAIR and “These Are Our Sisters”

Last updated on: March 28, 2014 at 7:48 am By smallaxe

We’ve written quite a bit about apologetics in the past couple of years. Some of it has been quite critical, and some of it constructive. FAIR is one of the prominent LDS apologetic organizations, and it has occassionally been the object of our criticism. The recent post on FAIR’s blog, “These Are Our Sisters,” however, deserves further attention; and a whole lot of praise. Read more

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2014-04-01T09:06:42-05:00

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The Joseph Story in Genesis and the Documentary Hypothesis

Last updated on: April 1, 2014 at 9:06 am By RT

A basic first step in grasping the meaning of a biblical text as it may have been intended to be understood by its original authors is to establish something of its literary history. Most biblical texts developed over a long period of time, beginning with the earliest forms of the texts that served particular ideological purposes in their original historical contexts, then undergoing a succession of various literary and editorial adaptations by scribes and priests for the purpose of creating... Read more

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2014-03-19T11:20:21-05:00

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The Problem of Gendered Voice in the Church Memo to leaders of Ordain Women

Last updated on: March 19, 2014 at 11:20 am By jupiterschild

The non-accidental choice of the Church to issue the recent press release through a female spokesperson struck me as particularly problematic, but it may also be indicative of positive change on the horizon. For me the main issue relates to the deployment of the gendered voice of the author as a strategy in crafting the message, a strategy that might reveal itself under present circumstances as a logical quandary. (more…) Read more

2014-03-09T14:41:02-05:00

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Things You Wouldn’t Think Might Go Together…

Last updated on: March 9, 2014 at 2:41 pm By mogget

About last Friday or so I was sitting under my rock reading from Ehrman’s and Holmes’ Text of the New Testament: Essays on the Status Quaestionis, which happens to be about textual criticism. I am not making this up – it was chapter 17, Wasserman’s essay on criteria. So anyway, word filtered in that the Maxwell Institute had a new book collecting all the NT apocrypha and giving high quality pictures of the same, etc., etc. And I thought... Read more

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