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March 2016

March 20, 2016

Freedom and the Amorphous Individual

"...Devine seems untroubled by Siedentop’s argument for identifying secular individualism with the essence of Christianity....

March 15, 2016

The Restoration and Western Humanity – Triumph or Crisis?

[This is another addition to our ongoing General Conference Odyssey -- which project you can...

March 08, 2016

A Peculiar People Aims for Respectability

[This is another addition to our ongoing General Conference Odyssey -- which project you can...

March 01, 2016

On Worship, Practical, Contemplative, and Aesthetic-Humanitarian

[This is another addition to our ongoing General Conference Odyssey -- which project you can...

February 2016

February 23, 2016

The Starry Heavens and the Moral Law

[This is another addition to our ongoing General Conference Odyssey -- which project you can...

February 16, 2016

Our Virtue – Faith and Education

[This is another addition to our ongoing General Conference Odyssey -- which project you can...

February 09, 2016

Faith Crises, Table-Pounding and Mechanical Rabbits

[This is another addition to our ongoing General Conference Odyssey -- which project you can...

February 02, 2016

Mourning, Right and Wrong

J. Max Wilson tells it like it is, again: Among some vocal members of the...

February 02, 2016

The Fullness of the Gospel for the Fullness of Life

[This is another addition to our ongoing General Conference Odyssey -- which project you can...

January 2016

January 30, 2016

Pierre Manent’s Christian Aristotelianism, and Aristotelian Christianity

Here I comment on a new review by Daniel Mahoney of Pierre Manent’s latest book. ...

January 29, 2016

Marilynne Robinson’s Calvinism & Progressive Democracy

Asked by the President to explain the convergence between her Christianity and her “concerns about...

January 26, 2016

Choose the Right. Why?

The commandments, including the big 10 themselves, are a prominent theme of the Friday afternoon...

January 19, 2016

I Was So Much Older Then, I’m Younger Than That Now

[Another day in our General Conference Odyssey -- spearheaded by Nathaniel Givens] President Joseph Fielding...

January 12, 2016

A People Blessed by Revelation

(Another week has come and gone, bringing with it another segment from our "General Conference...

January 05, 2016

Knowledge – On Whose Terms?

Is knowledge of ultimate truth possible? We have of late heard critics of the Church...

January 04, 2016

Paradox is not Contradiction, but Wealth of Meaning

This is a wonderful distillation by a great saint and great scholar, Terryl Givens,...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

Harold B. Lee on The Millstone of “Liberal” Religion

[Another addition in the more to come series of "insights and inspirations from previous General...

December 24, 2015

Inside Dope on Emerging Mormon Pro-Homosexuality Stance

At Times & Seasons, Marc Bohn promotes inside information that John Gustav-Wrathall is eager to...

December 22, 2015

Progress or Decline?

[Along with a bunch of friends – linked below – I am reviewing LDS General...

December 15, 2015

Betty Friedan and Bishop Brown

[A continuation in the project of gleaning insights and inspirations from previous LDS General Conferences...

December 14, 2015

In a short, but brilliant article at Difficult Run, Nathaniel Givens explains the (hopefully misleading)...

December 08, 2015

“Satan” = Moral Agency and the Problem of Evil

[Along with a bunch of friends – linked below – I am reviewing LDS General...

December 07, 2015

The handbook and Homosexuality

This is the full post from which Peggy Stack quoted in Sunday's Salt Lake Tribune....

December 06, 2015

Finding the Good and the Beautiful

It’s possible that there are some people who’ve never experienced the yearnings described by St....

December 06, 2015

Fragmentation of social and familial bonds

The following is a guest post from Tanner Shenewark, a BYU English student: In its...

December 02, 2015

The Return of the King

Elder Wilson’s BYU devotional on Tuesday was quite a significant statement, and rich with historical...

December 01, 2015

April 1971: Nothing New Here – Just Same Ol’ Mormonism

Nathaniel Givens has gathered a group of friends to begin gleaning insights and inspiration from...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

Reason and the New Dignity

My latest in the Deseret News:"Of course no one in the marriage debate disputes human...

March 2015

March 10, 2015

Progressive Moral Madness

Here's my latest little ditty for the Deseret News. To get from Kant to grade-school...

February 2015

February 24, 2015

Fifty Shades of Dark. And One Shade of Feminism.

The ever-insightful and pretty brave Nathaniel Givens here offers a very illuminating reflection on the...

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