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2013-08-22T15:39:02+00:00

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On Science, Faith, and Evidence

Last updated on: August 22, 2013 at 3:39 pm By Alan Hurst

There is perhaps no idea I hear at church that I find more wrong, or more dangerously wrong, than that faith is a will to believe in the absence of evidence. I understand where the idea comes from, of course. Religious belief is not simply dictated by logic and observation. To get from even the strongest evidence to the acceptance of any particular creed requires an act of interpretation; ultimately, in some sense, it requires a choice. But the choice–take... Read more

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2013-08-20T22:55:52+00:00

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The Ethics of Bad Friends and Good Art

Last updated on: August 20, 2013 at 10:55 pm By Xarissa Holdaway

The bad behavior that makes for good television has a moral dimension--but not in the way you're thinking. Read more

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2013-08-14T17:58:48+00:00

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Ghost Stories

Last updated on: August 14, 2013 at 5:58 pm By Matthew Bowman

I’m revisiting Judith Richardson’s Possessions: the history and uses of haunting in the Hudson Valley as I start thinking about nineteenth century spiritualism for a new book project, and this time I’ve been struck by her emphasis on place. The tangled and broken landscape of the Hudson Valley, full of cliffs and culverts and sharp bends in the river, makes for an ideal habitat for the unquiet dead. But just as powerful is the cultural landscape, marked since the seventeenth... Read more

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2013-08-13T16:08:04+00:00

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A Review of Darren Wilson’s “Finding God in the Bible”

Last updated on: August 13, 2013 at 4:08 pm By joespencer

“Read any commentary and it’ll pretty much explain the symbolism. My question is much, much simpler than that.” — Darren Wilson, Finding God in the Bible, pp. 193-194 The title is intriguing: Finding God in the Bible. It seems meant to work against what is now a several-centuries-old tradition of interpreting biblical texts without reference to God, without insisting that scripture is to have anything more than canonical weight. And Bill Johnson’s foreword to the book would seem to confirm... Read more

2013-08-08T19:00:04+00:00

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LL Cool J, Accidental Mormon?

Last updated on: August 8, 2013 at 7:00 pm By Christopher Jones

Last week, I logged onto facebook to see my newsfeed crowded with excited links from various Mormon friends to hip hop pioneer LL Cool J’s twitter feed. Confused, I clicked over to discover that the man best known for the early 1990s hits “I Need Love” and “Mama Said Knock You Out” had tweeted to his 3.8 million followers the following: Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.Gordon B. Hinckley — LLCOOLJ (@llcoolj) August 6, 2013 That quote comes from... Read more

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2013-08-06T12:17:56+00:00

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The “Turning of Hearts”: On Family, History, and Faith

Last updated on: August 6, 2013 at 12:17 pm By Ryan Tobler

A few weeks ago, during an unusually long summer excursion away from home, my wife and I had the opportunity to spend a few days staying with my paternal grandparents. It turned out to be a nice time with them in their quiet, settled home. In part, this was an opportunity simply to be in their company; as they advance in age, and we continue to live at a distance, there’s no guarantee of when we’ll see them next. But... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2013-07-31T20:44:27+00:00

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Mantra

Last updated on: July 31, 2013 at 8:44 pm By Rachael

The past several months, I’ve been trying to cultivate a practice of personal meditation (with halting success). After being introduced through a podcast to centering prayer (as taught by Catholic Thomas Keating, who draws on traditions of the Desert Fathers, St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing, and others), and wandering tentatively into westernized Buddhist thought, I felt I’d arrived at a refreshing oasis. Perhaps part of the reason for my relief at this new practice stemmed from... Read more

Mormonism, politics, Romney

2013-07-25T22:42:03+00:00

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Be a Man

Last updated on: July 25, 2013 at 10:42 pm By Kate Holbrook

Every summer, our family spends some time at a cabin in rural Utah and attend church nearby. Many of the men in the local ward earn a living through physical labor. They are strong; they are big; they have masculine presence. And then they speak, and they cry, and every member of the congregation sees that manly men, even those who won a medal in last night’s rodeo, cry and love. One of their talks in particular has stayed with... Read more

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2013-07-22T17:05:11+00:00

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Why You Should Read More Fiction (and John Turner’s Brigham Young)

Last updated on: July 22, 2013 at 5:05 pm By David Howlett

Recently, I finished John G. Turner’s excellent Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet. It is an eminently fair-minded biography that should prove to be the definitive account of Young’s life. Personally, I came away from the biography with far greater insight into Young’s spirituality and his theological contributions to Mormonism—one of the many wonderful pay-offs for reading Turner’s 400-page tome. I also came away from the biography with a previously held picture of Young confirmed: he was a harsh individual prone to... Read more

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2013-07-19T10:40:33+00:00

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Old Stories and Familiar Tropes: Anti-Catholicism and the Female Body in Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’

Last updated on: July 19, 2013 at 10:40 am By Cristine Hutchison-Jones

In her post “Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’: An Eternal Return” earlier this week, my colleague Susanna Morrill observed that Dan Brown has a knack for telling familiar stories in a language of standard tropes. As Susanna showed, Brown’s work taps into a variety of American anxieties, and it reflects a number of movements in American thought. Susanna’s observations approached Brown with a wide-angle lens, and she ably illuminated the ways in which Brown’s latest whodunit novel featuring the intrepid “religious symbologist”... Read more

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