The Mormon Archipelago
Saturday Funnies, 1915 (5) @ Keepapitchinin
- Obedience “Oh, Georgie, Georgie!” exclaimed a fond mother when she saw her small boy...
JWHA One Day Digital Conference @ Juvenile Instructor
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Thanks to friend of JI K. Pollock for putting this...
Who We Lost: Part 173 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 172 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 171 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 170 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 169 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 168 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 167 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Milestone 2000 @ Keepapitchinin
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Who We Lost: Part 166 @ Keepapitchinin
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2021 MHA CFP: Visions, Restorations, and Movements @ Juvenile Instructor
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You can read the original announcement HERE. If you were accepted for the 2020 program,...
Online Lecture: “Going to Work with a Will”: Emmeline B. Wells and the Road to Suffrage @ Juvenile Instructor
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This news comes from our friends at the Church Historian’s Press. If you’d...
JSP Conference 2020: “Joseph Smith’s Connections and Networks” @ Juvenile Instructor
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From our friends at the Joseph Smith Papers:
On Friday, September 18, 2020, the...
Review: Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon (UNC Press, 2020) @ Juvenile Instructor
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Many thanks to friend of JI, WVS, for his thoughtful review! You can purchase the book...
Discourses of Eliza R. Snow @ Juvenile Instructor
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Mabel Knell, age five, joined the Primary in her small southern Utah town when it was...
Job Ad: 12-Month Contract Research Historian, Church History Department (LDS) @ Juvenile Instructor
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Research Historian, Publications Division, (Contract worker)–Church History...
Guestpost–Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects @ Juvenile Instructor
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Mark Ashurst-McGee is a friend of the JI and the Senior Research and Review Editor with...
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...
Review: MacKay’s Prophetic Authority @ Juvenile Instructor
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I’ve known Michael MacKay for a while now. Sometimes our research interests have...
University of Utah Press MHA Code @ Juvenile Instructor
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From the editors of Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation...
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...
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...
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...
The Interpreter Stumbles over the JSPP @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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Since it’s inception (at Olive Garden ;>) in 2012 the Interpreter has published an...
Early Anglo-American and British Descriptions of Native American Skin Color: Updating a Recent Paper @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
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The Book of Mormon Studies Association is soon going to host its third annual...
Don’t miss this deal at Education Week @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- Sources confirm that Alonzo Gaskill’s book, The Lost Teachings of Jesus on the...
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...
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...
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...
