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May 2016

May 07, 2016

Obedience as Gratitude

(This is a talk I gave at this year's Women's Conference at Brigham Young University.)...

March 2016

March 18, 2016

Literature and the Art of Friendship

I didn’t ever expect that in 2016 we would be struggling as a nation with...

February 2016

February 06, 2016

On Disagreements at Church

Tone can make a great difference in how effectively we communicate, especially when we are...

December 2015

December 20, 2015

The Gift of Friendship

I can remember my mother’s boisterous laugh when I was a little boy. I can...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

My Journey as a Scholar of Faith, Part III

I wouldn’t have gone to Stanford, majored in Comparative Literature, or taken my career path...

November 12, 2015

My Journey as a Scholar of Faith, Part II

My first experiences with criticism, compassion and charity were in family life at home. As...

November 12, 2015

My Journey as a Scholar of Faith, Part I

I was invited by the Faculty Center to share my journey as a scholar of faith....

October 2015

October 04, 2015

Led by Revelation

It is a clear and central tenet of Mormon belief that we are led by...

August 2015

August 30, 2015

On the Spiritual Joy of Academic Work

(Adapted from comments I shared recently with the College of Humanities at BYU) Grading, I am...

August 13, 2015

The Quest for Renewal and the Religious Life

There is a paradox at the heart of the practice of religion. Religion is designed...

July 2015

July 26, 2015

The Sabbath Day and Earth Stewardship

The LDS Church has recently rolled out new training for members about the central importance...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Theology, Ecology, and the Word: Notes from Halki Summit, Part III

The Halki Summit ended after a provocative and fruitful discussion of the role the arts...

June 10, 2015

Theology, Ecology, and the Word: Notes from Halki Summit, Part II

I have a few things to report that deserve commentary from the Halki Summit II...

June 08, 2015

Theology, Ecology, and the Word: Notes from Halki Summit, Part I

I have arrived this week for the Halki Summit II, a meeting co-sponsored by the...

March 2015

March 22, 2015

The Hope of Stewardship: A Review of Joseph Spencer’s For Zion: A Mormon Theology of Hope

There are those who are infected by nostalgia and yearn for a nineteenth-century Mormonism because,...

January 2015

January 11, 2015

Experience and Understanding

Two friends recently independently mentioned to me that it seems that at every turn, their...

December 2014

December 14, 2014

If Truth Were A Child

We live in the age of polemics. Choices are presented to us as mutually exclusive,...

December 05, 2014

Review: First Principles and Ordinances: The Fourth Article of Faith in Light of the Temple by Samuel Brown

Sam Brown has written an important and beautiful book. Every Mormon serious about deepening their...

November 2014

November 12, 2014

Mormonism, Cosmology, and Environmental Stewardship

I just returned from a marvelous gathering at the Yale Divinity School where scholars and...

October 2014

October 26, 2014

Why I Am A Mormon, Part IV (Temples)

When I was in my last year of graduate school at Berkeley, I was given...

October 12, 2014

Why I Am a Mormon, Part III (Missionary Work)

It is fair to ask why a religious conviction needs to be expressed and shared...

September 2014

September 28, 2014

Why I Am A Mormon, Part II (Revelation)

To continue from my previous post, I want to focus on three areas of my...

September 23, 2014

Why I Am a Mormon, Part I

This is an attempt (in four installments) to explain a few things about what might...

September 14, 2014

Religion, Conservation, and Community

I have had a rare and unusual opportunity this week to spend a few days...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

The Theology of Climate Change Denial

Let me say outright that I am not interested in this post in trying to...

August 21, 2014

The Spiritual Value of Reading Secular Literature

I recently gave a presentation at Education Week at BYU on this topic. I offer...

August 02, 2014

Seeing Through A Glass Darkly

I have learned by happy and sometimes sad experience that the mind is a changeable...

July 2014

July 14, 2014

The Trail of Memory

37 years ago I spent one month at the Bennion Boys Ranch in Victor, Idaho....

June 2014

June 22, 2014

On Marriage

Twenty-five years ago yesterday, I married my wife, Amy. When we were dating, we did...

June 12, 2014

Love of Reading

Consider this title in both of its syntactical meanings. What does it mean to love...