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2012-04-16T21:14:50-05:00

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B.H. Roberts and the Mormon Political Left by Chris Smith

Last updated on: April 16, 2012 at 9:14 pm By Bored in Vernal

FPR would like to thank Christopher Carroll Smith for this guest post. Chris is an emerging Mormon Studies scholar out of Claremont Graduate University, in the tradition of Jan Shipps. B. H. Roberts, a member of the First Council of the Seventy, is better known for his efforts as an apologist than as a politician, but this is a man who was regarded by some of his contemporaries as the most prominent Democratic orator in the state of Utah. Roberts,... Read more

2012-04-08T14:57:46-05:00

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Lincoln and the Easter of Democracy

Last updated on: April 8, 2012 at 2:57 pm By Chris Henrichsen

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Few words are more well known. I love the speeches of Lincoln. While this speech may not be his greatest, I think that in many ways encapsulates what made Lincoln great. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and... Read more

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2012-04-05T21:12:30-05:00

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Dear BYU Religious Education (Part 2)

Last updated on: April 5, 2012 at 9:12 pm By smallaxe

Dear BYU Religious Education, It’s now been over a year since our last correspondence. I’ve had some time to formulate my thoughts a little more constructively. I’d like to speak to you about the hiring process, and how you might adjust it to the mutual benefit of the candidates and yourself. I realize that some of these may be more applicable to one of your departments rather than both; but I hope this provides you some insight from the other... Read more

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2012-03-26T20:16:47-05:00

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The Trouble with BYU’s Religious Education (Part III)

Last updated on: March 26, 2012 at 8:16 pm By smallaxe

In the previous posts I described how two methodological problems with Religious Education allowed for the Bott problem, as well as the likely short-term response. In this post I’ll articulate a few thoughts in terms of what I see as a potential, and positive, long-term response to this situation. (more…) Read more

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2012-03-20T22:25:37-05:00

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Retention

Last updated on: March 20, 2012 at 10:25 pm By clark

I’ll put up my next post on Mormon ways of knowing shortly. In the meantime I just wanted to touch upon some things I’ve written at my blog on LDS retention. I’ll not go over my main analysis again. (You can read it at my blog: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4) What I wanted to go into is just how hard it is to figure out how well the Church actually is doing in terms of... Read more

Studying Religion

2012-03-13T09:31:50-05:00

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The Trouble with BYU’s Religious Education (Part II)

Last updated on: March 13, 2012 at 9:31 am By smallaxe

The previous post discussed two methodological problems with Religious Education that fostered the circumstances leading to Randy Bott’s troubling statements. In this post I will discuss what I see as the likely short-term response within RE. In the next post I will discuss my desired long-term response. In the short-term, the Randy Bott situation will push RE professors toward what I’ll call an “orthodox professionalism.” (more…) Read more

BYU

2012-03-11T23:47:03-05:00

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Epistemology: Why the Focus?

Last updated on: March 11, 2012 at 11:47 pm By clark

I’m trying to drive at whether there is a way to justify Mormon knowledge claims and perhaps get at whether there are uniquely Mormon ways of knowing. It may seem like I’m taking a bit of circuitous route. I want to get at why people have worried about the things they have the past few centuries. It can often seem like epistemology is so dominated by specialists each debating such nuanced points that the big picture is lost. Last week... Read more

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2012-03-07T15:47:36-05:00

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The Trouble with BYU’s Religious Education (Part I)

Last updated on: March 7, 2012 at 3:47 pm By smallaxe

This post isn’t meant to discuss the specifics of Randy Bott’s circumstances. Instead, I’d like to write about how the Bott situation signals two long-standing methodological problems for Religious Education as a whole. I believe this contributes to an ongoing discussion within Religious Education, but since I’m not privy to that discussion, I’d like to raise the issues here. (more…) Read more

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2012-03-01T23:41:05-05:00

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Knowing: Why Care?

Last updated on: March 1, 2012 at 11:41 pm By clark

Why do we care if we know rather than merely believe? Both in religion and life in general? I think that typically we appeal to an ethics. There are several ways this occurs. The first is that we have a community notion that knowledge entails beliefs that are true and have a certain degree of justification. If I go into an employer and say I know how to program in C++ and Python and I’ve never programmed in my life... Read more

2012-02-29T19:37:11-05:00

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Mormon Ways of Knowing

Last updated on: February 29, 2012 at 7:37 pm By clark

Years ago I got a call from someone from one of the major LDS book publishers. (It’s been so long I can’t remember which – although it definitely wasn’t Deseret Books) They were planning on publishing a kind of Mormon dictionary that addressed many of the topics within Mormonism using short scholarly entries. The main emphasis was less the summation than to have a pretty thorough bibliography for each entry. They were calling me because several people had suggested that... Read more

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