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August 2018

August 15, 2018

Sorry to Bother You: The (Human) Body as Technology

This review contains major spoilers for Boots Riley’s 2018 film Sorry to Bother You. It’s...

April 2017

April 09, 2017

Unbridling Mormon Illustration: “From the Dust” – 2 of 2

In yesterday's post, I discussed the relationship between Mormon illustration and historical accuracy, specifying that...

April 08, 2017

Mormon Illustration and the Burden of History – 1 of 2

In his book Miracles, C.S. Lewis dwells for a peculiarly long time on the Ascension...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

Review: The Mormon Jesus

Perhaps my devotional life’s greatest flaw is that I forget about Jesus. Intellectually, of course, I...

March 2016

March 05, 2016

Ammon, before Trump

On social media I passed along a quip that, while Donald Trump is applying to be...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

Familiar with All and Free with Our Substance

This past year I read (or returned to) a handful of both fiction and nonfiction...

November 2015

November 06, 2015

How I choose to see the revisions

I write this as a heterosexual person, one who is not directly affected by the...

October 2015

October 16, 2015

The 5 Best References to Mormonism in the History of Television

So that Quantico show debuted a little while back. It's a show about FBI agents...

August 2015

August 07, 2015

A Review and a Farewell: Of Manuscripts and Seer Stones

I've been, as Mormons say, "less active" here at the blog for the past few...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

“The Prophecy of This Book”

Believers in the Book of Mormon are inevitably acquainted with Revelation 22:18-19: For I testify...

November 2014

November 05, 2014

Consecrating the widow’s mite

The Filipino widow’s mite The widow’s mite is a poignant story, but one in which...

August 2014

August 22, 2014

What do we mean by “Another Testament”?

Before 1981, the Book of Mormon was simply the Book of Mormon; since then, however,...

June 2014

June 05, 2014

The Restoration and War

Written on Memorial Day, 2014 This is my first Memorial Day home after...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

On Translation Theories and the Interpretation of the Book of Mormon

Since Blake Ostler's landmark article appeared in Dialogue in 1987, there's been something of a...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

The “Value” of the Book of Mormon

As part of a project I’m currently at work on, I’ve been reading as systematically...

September 2013

September 11, 2013

The Next Century of Book of Mormon Studies

For at least one very obvious reason, I've been thinking a good deal lately about...

September 02, 2013

There Will Be Blood

On Saturday President Obama took to the podium in the Rose Garden and announced that...