The Mormon Archipelago
New Mormon History Presentations @ Juvenile Instructor
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Please enjoy the following presentations. One is by Rick Turley, entitled “The...
Exposé in Under the Banner of Heaven @ Juvenile Instructor
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Christopher James Blythe is Assistant Professor of English (Folklore) at Brigham Young...
CFP: Mormon History Association Conference 2023 (Rochester, NY) @ Juvenile Instructor
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“BEGINNINGS”
Rochester, New York; June 8-11, 2023
The 58th Annual...
Abortion @ Keepapitchinin
- This is not a post I ever dreamed I would write. For 20 years or more, I actively shunned...
Are Visionaries Dangerous to Society? @ Juvenile Instructor
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My thanks to series editors J Stuart and Cristina for their edits and comments on this...
Why are Mormons so defensive about Under the Banner of Heaven? @ Juvenile Instructor
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John Hatch is an editor for Signature Books. He is currently writing “What Do...
Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven: Critical Responses @ Juvenile Instructor
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In 2003, John Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven hit bookshelves and became an...
I was raised FLDS. Banner isn’t my story-but it changed my community’s lives. @ Juvenile Instructor
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Shirlee Draper was born and raised in Colorado City, Arizona, within the fundamentalist...
Fundamentalist Mormonism is Modern Mormonism @ Juvenile Instructor
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Cristina Rosetti is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Dixie State University. Her...
Inescapable Under the Banner of Heaven @ Juvenile Instructor
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Megan Goodwin is a scholar of gender, race, sexuality, politics, and American...
A Banner Book—The Publishing History Context for Under the Banner of Heaven @ Juvenile Instructor
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Bryan Buchanan works at Benchmark Books in Salt Lake City and is the co-host of the...
Charles Dickens on George Q. Cannon; George Q. Cannon on Charles Dickens @ Keepapitchinin
- Dickens / Cannon
First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve in the 1950 Census @ Keepapitchinin
- 1P/Q12 in 1950 census
Tips for Searching the 1950 Census @ Keepapitchinin
- 1950 Census
You have been listening to the Tabernacle Choir and Organ Broadcast, 9 April 1961 @ Keepapitchinin
- Choir and Organ
“Bless Our Members in the War-Torn Countries” @ Keepapitchinin
- "In war-torn countries"
Tinker Toys and Temple Sealings @ Keepapitchinin
- Tinker Toys/Temple Sealings
Why Mormon Immigrants from Europe Traveled in Second Class Rather than Steerage: or, What I Learned on Christmas Eve @ Keepapitchinin
- Mormon Immigrant Travel
Remembering Chris Henrichsen @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Note: This post was written by John C.
I lost my friend the other day. Chris...
“And All Hail to Andrew Jenson, Great Preparer of the Way!” @ Keepapitchinin
- Hail to Andrew Jenson
CURRENT GOSPEL QUESTIONS: Chapter 25, What Is the Origin of Life on Earth? @ Keepapitchinin
- Chapter 25
The left hand shall not say to the right, I have no need of thee @ New Cool Thang
- A Trowel is a small handheld tool with a flat pointed blade, used to apply and spread...
What should BYU and the church do to reduce future firestorms regarding LGBTQ issues? @ New Cool Thang
- Hey y’all. I’m back. Or I guess I’m still here… As you know,...
Literacy, Imitation, and Literary Borrowing in Early Mormon History @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Recent academic discussions about the composition of the Book of Mormon and the concept...
John Gee’s Book is only a Symptom of Serious Intellectual Disease at BYU @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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A few recent posts have called attention to a deeply problematic, unethical, and even...
Sensationalism? Nauvoo and the Angst of Tradition @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Book reviews, especially as done back and forth among the academic community, are not...
The Problem of Claiming Liberal Bias in Biblical and Mormon Scholarship @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Blake Ostler’s 1987 essay on the Book of Mormon as a modern expansion, by Joseph...
freeing neighborhoods and nations from the virus of poverty pt 3 what the data says works @ New Cool Thang
- A short one today: A brief summary of Moller, Stephanie, et al. “Determinants of...
The Curious Announcement of Donald Parry’s Editorship for Biblia Hebraica Quinta @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Back in 2009 BYU University Communications announced that Donald W. Parry, professor of...
Rel Ed Faculty Who Fail to Launch @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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There is a curious rash of legitimate PhD holding, BYU Rel Ed faculty whose professional...
freeing neighborhoods and nations from the virus of poverty pt 2 Single Parents @ New Cool Thang
- Single Parent Families with Children under 18 have a markedly higher rate of poverty....
freeing neighborhoods and nations from the virus of poverty pt 1 Introduction @ New Cool Thang
- Jeffrey Holland at one point said, speaking of the current pandemic: “We pray for...
BYU Religious Education’s Investment in Its Students @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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A major theme over the years at the Faith Promoting Rumor blog has been the department...
Take 2: Blumell, New Testament History, Culture and Society @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Review of Lincoln H. Blumell, ed., New Testament History, Culture, and Society (Provo...
The BYU Honor Code Office and the Idea of Reasonableness @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Those aware of the similarities and differences between Brigham Young University-Provo...
Gettin’ Healthy Phase Two: Fasting Protocols @ New Cool Thang
- In the first installment of this series I talked about how the first step I took to...
I decided to get less fat this year: Phase One @ New Cool Thang
- So I’ve cut like 30 pounds of fat this year. I figured I’d blog about it....
20 years up and running @ New Cool Thang
- 20 Years ago today, I was baptised. 20 years on, I still believe.
Teaching the Old Testament: An Official Statement About Interpretation @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The course of study for LDS Gospel Doctrine classes for 2018 is the Old Testament, which...
Fiction and History @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- I'll give you a couple of book discussions after one short paragraph on fiction and...
What the LDS Can Learn From the NFL @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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It has been a tough year for the NFL. Football is a sport; the NFL is a brand. After...
The Brigham Option: Living in a Post-Christian Nation @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I have heard a lot about Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in...
Insulting Utes on Twitter @ New Cool Thang
- Hey look! I just noticed I still own this blog… nice. Ok, I knew I still owned NCT....
Review of Perspectives on Mormon Theology: Apologetics @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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After a few warm-up posts last month (here, here, and here), it's time to get serious...
Practical Apologetics: What's Wrong With You? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- How do you talk to an Ex-Mormon? Or a less-active Mormon who you bump into at church or a...
Practical Apologetics: The Doubting Elder @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Time for another installment in this occasional series. As reported in the Deseret News,...
What's Worse, Bad Apologetics or No Apologetics? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The golden era of Mormon apologetics ran from Nibley to FAIR and Old FARMS. With so many...
Review: A Peculiar People, or How Protestants Viewed Mormons in the Nineteenth Century @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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So I finally got around to reading J. Spencer Fluhman's book "A Peculiar People":...
6 Questions for Tom Kimball on the Kirtland Temple @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The Sunday School curriculum is currently covering the Kirtland period of LDS history,...
Religion and Self-Deception @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- I just finished The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life...
Moving to Seattle @ New Cool Thang
- This Summer, My Family will be moving to Seattle. Questions I have: What is church like...
Let's Talk About Sorcery @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Borrowing the title from my good friends at BCC, let's talk about sorcery, another...
Mason on the Professionalization of Mormon History @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Millennial Star posted links to a podcast discussion with Patrick Mason on the...
MormonLeaks Posts Additional Documents @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The MormonLeaks site continues to periodically post documents providing a bit of inside...
The Evolution of Adam @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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That's a book by Christian scholar Peter Enns: The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible...
Mormonism in the (Post)Modern World @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The Wheatley Institution hosted a conference at BYU last month, "Reason for Hope:...
Sunday School 2.0 (sort of) @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Love it or hate it, it's still around: Gospel Doctrine in LDS Sunday School. The SL Trib...
The Misguided Quest for a Common Moral Framework @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The Mormon Newsroom just posted a new think-y piece titled "The Quest for a Common Moral...
The Policy: Year One @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Happy birthday, Policy, you are one year old today. In January I posted "Policy or...
Five Possible Wrong Turns for Religion @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I've read several books and essays in the science versus religion genre, some by secular...
Conditional Love Is Back @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The recently announced LDS doctrine of conditional divine love comes from President...
Future Mormons? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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This is a review of and a response to Adam Miller's recent book, Future Mormon: Essays...
Classroom Discussion: Productive or Not? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- The LDS Sunday School General President posted this short article at LDS.org (in the...
Korihor the Witch @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. (Ex. 22:18)I recently read Peter Charles Hoffer's...
"Come Back" -- with some thoughts on why they left in the first place @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- A couple of weeks ago I taught Lesson #12 in the Howard W. Hunter manual, titled Come...
Thoughts on Planted: Apologetics in an Age of Doubt @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Patrick Q. Mason's Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt (2015) is the latest...
The New Harmonized First Vision Account @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Sunday night, Elder Richard J. Maynes, of the Presidency of the Seventy, delivered a CES...
Calling All Millennials @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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The most interesting talk at UVU's just-completed Mormonism and the Art of Boundary...
Review of Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I enjoyed reading Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings (OUP, 2016), a 300-page collection...
Elder Ballard on Building a Better Boat @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- In October 2014, Elder Ballard delivered his "Stay in the Boat" talk at General...