The Mormon Archipelago

Saturday Remix, 1938 (7) @ Keepapitchinin
  -  1938

The Time Neil Armstrong Searched for Gold Plates @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  It’s true: Neil Armstrong led an expedition into an Ecuadorian jungle to search for...

Ring Around Her Heart: Chapter 7 @ Keepapitchinin
  -  Ring 7

Handcart Trail @ Keepapitchinin
  -  Handcart Trail By Vesta Pierce Crawford My boy, I walked across the plains, Where now the...

Improvement Era, June 1967 @ Keepapitchinin
  -  June 1967

Summer Book Club: On Zion’s Mount, chapter 4 @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  This is the fourth installment in the JI’s fourth annual summer book club. This year we...

Ring Around Her Heart: Chapter 6 @ Keepapitchinin
  -  Ring 6

“The Universe of Truth” @ Keepapitchinin
  -  Universe of Truth

Job Post: Women’s History Research Assistant, LDS Church History Department @ Juvenile Instructor
  -   Announcing a really great temporary, part-time research assistant position at the LDS...

The Dispossessed @ Keepapitchinin
  -  Dispossessed

GQC Journal: Mormon Conceptions of Race @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  This post is part of our ongoing series on the George Q. Cannon diaries, which are now...

“We Need Younger People” @ Keepapitchinin
  -  “I have tried to live my religion and do the best I could. I have been a member of the...

Ring Around Her Heart: Chapter 5 @ Keepapitchinin
  -  Ring 5

Be a Good American @ Keepapitchinin
  -  Good American

New Authors at the JI @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  We are pleased to announce that we have added several new authors to our ranks! Please...

JI Summer Book Club: On Zion’s Mount, Ch. 3 @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  Today’s guest post comes from Jonathan England, PhD student in American History at...

GQC Journal: Sealings and Adoptions @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  In 1894 Wilford Woodruff stood in general conference and announced a revelation that had...

Jobs at the Church History Library! @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  Research Assistant for the Women’s History Team   Job ID: 211892. Posting...

The Journals of George Q. Cannon @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  This post in our ongoing series on the George Q. Cannon diaries, which are now published...

JI Summer Book Club: On Zion’s Mount, Ch. 2. @ Juvenile Instructor
  -    This is the second installment in the JI’s fourth annual summer book club. This...

Faith and scholarship, yet again, and at BYU @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  Back in 2012, TT announced a series here on the balance or integration of faith and...

BYU’s Religious Education: A Ticking Time Bomb in the #metoo Era? @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  With the recent revelations of serious and disturbing allegations of a pattern of sexual...

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...

Review of The Formation of the Pentateuch, ed. J. Gertz, B. Levinson, D. Rom-Shiloni, K. Schmid (Mohr Siebeck, 2016) @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  I posted a review of The Formation of the Pentateuch: Bridging the Academic Cultures of...

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
  -   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
  -   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....

The Authorship of Isaiah Revisited: A Response to Daniel Ellsworth @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  A few days after my recent post about the Isaiah that Nephi could not have known, Daniel...

The Book of Enoch, the Book of Moses, and the Question of Availability @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  In the second edition of his book,[1] D. Michael Quinn added about fourteen pages to the...

BYU Does the BCE Thing @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  According to an article I was reading in Meridian magazine a couple of weeks ago touting...

Strengthen Your Marriage @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  Cute couple, no?  Find out how to strengthen your marriage as they discuss theirs! What...

Review of Perspectives on Mormon Theology: Apologetics @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   After a few warm-up posts last month (here, here, and here), it's time to get serious...

The Isaiah Nephi Could Not Have Known: A Response to Dr. Kent Jackson @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  In a recent essay[1] Dr. Kent Jackson has discussed the problem of Isaiah in the Book of...

A Plea to the Writers of Seminary Manuals @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  We’re studying the Book of Mormon again in seminary, and the current manual includes...

A Meek Suggestion @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  BYU faculty have been admonished again this week that BYU must be a great university but...

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
  -   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
  -   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
  -   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...

Utah election results @ New Cool Thang
  -  Alot of people are bothered that Trump won Utah. A couple things to keep an eye on. In...

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
  -   I've read several books and essays in the science versus religion genre, some by secular...

The Mormon Ross Perot Moment @ New Cool Thang
  -  Ross Perot was the anti-establishment candidate in 1992, who rose to prominence for...

Conditional Love Is Back @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -  The recently announced LDS doctrine of conditional divine love comes from President...

From Civic to Liberal Republicanism: John Locke and the Dutch @ New Cool Thang
  -  This is the 4th part in my series whereby I roughly follow Jerry Muller’s Thinking...

Future Mormons? @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   This is a review of and a response to Adam Miller's recent book, Future Mormon: Essays...

A Genealogy of Self-Interest: Machiavelli and Hobbes @ New Cool Thang
  -  This is the third post in my series where I appropriate Jerry Muller’s lecture series...

Greek/Christian Condemnations of Profit/Usury @ New Cool Thang
  -  (This is the second in a series of posts dedicated to the relationship between Mormonism...

Capitalism and the United Order – Pt. 1 @ New Cool Thang
  -  This will be a new series of relatively short posts that will center around Jerry Z....

The Meaning and Morals of Marriage @ New Cool Thang
  -  Terrence Deacon’s classic work, The Symbolic Species, is a very interesting synthesis...

The Word of Wisdom as a Boycott of the Free Market @ New Cool Thang
  -  A Word of Wisdom … showing forth the order and will of God in the temporal salvation of...

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
  -   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
  -   Sunday night, Elder Richard J. Maynes, of the Presidency of the Seventy, delivered a CES...

Calling All Millennials @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   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
  -   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...