The Mormon Archipelago
Saturday Remix, 1914 (5) @ Keepapitchinin
- Remix
The Jumpher Family: Mama and Papa @ Keepapitchinin
- Jumpher
“You Have Served Your Generation Well” @ Keepapitchinin
- "Served Your Generation"
How to Teach About Womanhood: The View from 1969 @ Keepapitchinin
- This instruction was given to teachers in the Seminaries and Institutes program in 1969...
High School Freshman @ Keepapitchinin
- High School Freshman By Ruth Thompson Allen Oh, what a change in Junior! Last week he did...
The Pongee Dress @ Keepapitchinin
- Pongee Dress
Song for a Loss @ Keepapitchinin
- Song for a Loss By Katherine F. Larsen This know, dear heart – (be comforted) In every...
“Play Some Instrument, or Sing” @ Keepapitchinin
- Play or Sing
The 2nd Annual MWHIT Bazaar at MHA @ Juvenile Instructor
- The countdown to MHA has begun. 9 days and counting…. (If you still need to...
Our Roots Go Deep @ Keepapitchinin
- From the Relief Society Magazine, November 1964 – Our Roots Go Deep By Frances C. Yost...
Vincenzo di Francesca: “Send Me Your Blessing,” 1944 @ Keepapitchinin
- Send Me Your Blessing
JI Summer Book Club: Update @ Juvenile Instructor
- This summer, Juvenile Instructor is hosting a series on Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s...
JI Summer Book Club 2017, II: A House Full of Females, Chapter 1 @ Juvenile Instructor
- Though it’s not in this chapter, If I were to pull a sentence from Ulrich’s book...
The End of the Gathering: Mormonism and Immigration Regulation @ Juvenile Instructor
- The Immigration and Ethnic History Society has generously agreed to cross-post this...
The Gaskill Hoax, Three Years Later @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- Hey, remember the Gaskill hoax of 2014? In short, he published a book called The Lost...
Summer Reading Lists @ Juvenile Instructor
- Last year, we shared what we planned/hoped to read over the summer. Here are our lists...
JI Summer Book Club, Year 3: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism @ Juvenile Instructor
- This is the first in a series of sixteen posts in the Third Annual Summer Book Club at...
MHA in St. Louis June 1-4, 2017 – Registration Price Increase Approaching @ Juvenile Instructor
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June 1-4, 2017, Historic St Charles, St Louis area Missouri.
Mormon History...
A Possible Source of the Word Telestial, Part 2 @ Juvenile Instructor
- Seven years ago when I was starting this project, I came across the three-tiered system...
REMINDER: 2018 Church History Symposium CfP @ Juvenile Instructor
- From the Program Committee: We are just one week away from the submission deadline for...
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and D&C sections 88 and 93 @ Juvenile Instructor
- In this previous post, I noted the similarities between DC 88:6-13 and a passage from...
Some More on the BYUNTC and Snuffer’s Version of the Gospel of John @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- This is a follow-up on my last post where I showed that a bit of translation originally...
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...
Mormons and Easter @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- Thoughts from a friend who wishes to remain anonymous: I’m kind of tired of Mormons...
Moving to Seattle @ New Cool Thang
- This Summer, My Family will be moving to Seattle. Questions I have: What is church like...
Review of Jeremy D. Smoak, The Priestly Blessing in Inscription & Scripture: The Early History of Numbers 6:24-26 (Oxford, 2016) @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- Review of Jeremy Smoak, The Priestly Blessing in Inscription and Scripture
From the BYU New Testament Commentary to Denver Snuffer’s revelation @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- As you may know, the BYU New Testament Commentary project started in the early 2000s and...
Some methodological guidelines for the dating of biblical texts @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- New post on the dating of biblical texts
Why study the Bible as a topic of humanistic inquiry? @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- I have a new post up on humanistic study of the Bible
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...
Review of Gard Granerød, Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period: Studies in the Religion and Society of the Judaean Community at Elephantine (de Gruyter, 2016) @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- I posted a review of a valuable new book on Judaean religion at Elephantine on my blog.
Canonical Criticism of the Book of Mormon? @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- The following is a brief response to Michael Austin’s post “Canon as Context:...
Call for Papers: Book of Mormon Studies @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
- Book of Mormon Studies: Toward a Conversation Academic study of the Book of Mormon has...
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 Mormon Ross Perot Moment @ New Cool Thang
- Ross Perot was the anti-establishment candidate in 1992, who rose to prominence for...
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...
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...
Common Consent, Consensus Formation and Habermas @ New Cool Thang
- Is there anything that you would be more willing to purchase when your mother is not...
How Technology Is Changing the Church @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- At checkout on a recent visit to my favorite SLC bookstore, I was rewarded with a free...
All the Lights Were Red: Thinking About Reform in Mormonism @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- A funny thing happened on the way to the conference. On Saturday morning I was driving to...
Reading Genesis @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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The latest entry in the how-to-read-the-Bible genre is How to Read the Bible (HarperOne,...
Teaching Genesis @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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A new year of LDS seminary is just starting up, and this year's course of study is the...
Updated Old Testament Seminary Scriptures @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- A couple of years ago, with no public announcement or explanation that I am aware of, CES...
Seer Stones and the New Narrative @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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A week ago, the Church released a suddenly iconic photograph of Joseph Smith's favorite...
Review: Fresh Courage Take @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I recently read the new book Fresh Courage Take: New Directions by Mormon Women...
Bushman on Improving the LDS History Curriculum @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- An interesting AMA exchange with Richard Bushman was recently posted at Reddit. In one of...
Mormons and Race @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Go read Russell Stevenson's review of Paul Reeve's Religion of a Different Color: Race...
Review: First Principles and Ordinances @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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I'm going to say some nice things about Sam Brown's First Principles and Ordinances: The...
Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Merina Smith's Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy: The Introduction and...
Day of the Lamanite, Deferred @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Lamanite: An increasingly dated term that now rubs many people the wrong way when heard...
Joseph Smith's Polygamy: Toward a Better Understanding @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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You have probably heard about Joseph Smith's Polygamy: Toward a Better Understanding...
For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013 @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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It's time for a discussion of Russell Stevenson's For the Cause of Righteousness: A...
Polygamy: Demise @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- This is the third and final post on B. Carmon Hardy's Doing the Works of Abraham: Mormon...
Polygamy: Public Practice @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- In my prior post, I looked briefly at the origins of polygamy. Again using documents from...
Polygamy: Origins @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Once upon a time, no one except critics wanted to talk about LDS polygamy. But TV shows,...
Questions and Doubts @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- An article in the March 2015 Ensign is stirring up all kinds of discussion: "When Doubts...
Practical Apologetics: Historicity @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Over the holidays I borrowed a copy of Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures...
The Council of Fifty: A Documentary History @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- I don't have time to do a proper review of the 490 pages of The Council of Fifty: A...
The Mormon Challenge, Part 1: Creation @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
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Continuing with my project to actually read the LDS books I buy, I'm now reading The New...
Historians Saying Interesting Things About Mormonism @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Between the new polygamy essays at LDS.org and the new religion curriculum at the BYUs,...
Two Approaches to Isaiah @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- This is going to be a post about Isaiah that does *not* talk about Second Isaiah. After...
Menacing Mormons @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Just finished Patrick Mason's The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the...
The Unwritten Order of Things, Revisited @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- At last night's Stake Leadership Training Meeting, the stake president announced the...
On Not Reading the Book of Mormon @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- Having heard nice things about the odd little book by Pierre Bayard How to Talk About...
Practical Apologetics: The First Vision @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
- It's not surprising that the First Vision has become one of the faith issues that gets...
Negotiating LDS History and Faith Challenges (notes, recap) @ Nine Moons
- A few weeks ago, I attended the Negotiating LDS History and Faith Challenges presentation...
What Goes Around @ Nine Moons
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Since the time I understood the basic idea of it, I have always believed in the Hindu...
FAQ: Temple Cancellation/Clearance @ Nine Moons
- Over at MormonMentality, NewlyHousewife has posted a great list of FAQs for those...
N.T. Wright on Jesus @ Nine Moons
- I took the advice of Henry Eyring yesterday – imagining the talk that I needed and...
A Stranger, A Pilgrim: Liveblogging El Camino @ a bird's eye view
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Tithing And Responsibility @ Nine Moons
- A court has ruled that paying back taxes is a higher priority than paying tithing –...
Prophets Don’t All Weigh The Same @ Nine Moons
- Mormons like to beat themselves up for not giving enough value to the man they call...
Mouths of Babes — Does Can Mean Should? @ a bird's eye view
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When Women Don’t Want The Priesthood @ Nine Moons
- Imagine for a moment a Northeastern urban ward. The average age is 32, a large number of...
Brother Husband @ Nine Moons
- If the stars align just so, my first novel will be released this summer. Needless to say,...
Wear Pants To Church Day @ Nine Moons
- A group is asking Mormon women to wear pants to church this Sunday as a sign of support...
The Best and Worst of the “Mormon Moment” @ Nine Moons
- We’ve been hearing for a while now about the so-called “Mormon Moment,”...
Our Dead V: Memorial Day at St. Paul’s Cathedral @ a bird's eye view
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God and Science @ Digital Faith
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Here's a second and final post on Collins and Giberson's The Language of Science and...
Latent Racism, Orientalism and “Magic Underwear” in American Society and Mitt Romney’s Presidential Campaign @ a bird's eye view
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Straight Answers to Gospel Questions: Evolution @ Digital Faith
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Time to fire up the blog for a few posts on the latest entry in my Now Reading box, The...
Genesis 1: Theories of Creation @ Digital Faith
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In the middle part of The Lost World of Genesis One, Walton details his theory of the...
Genesis 1 Is Functional Creation @ Digital Faith
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In propositions 2 through 6 of The Lost World of Genesis One author John Walton supports...
Genesis 1 Is Ancient Cosmology @ Digital Faith
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That's the first of 18 propositions discussed in John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis...
N. T. Wright on Paul @ Digital Faith
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In this last of my series of posts on Paul I will do a short review of N. T. Wright's...
Becoming a Mormon: Thinking about a Brand with Elder Ballard @ a bird's eye view
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Paul at General Conference @ Digital Faith
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My recent posts on Paul haven't proven too popular, but I'm still pursuing the topic. I...
A Revolutionary Paul @ Digital Faith
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Continuing with this series of posts on Paul, here's what N. T. Wright (in What Saint...
Reading Paul's Letters @ Digital Faith
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My last post was titled "A Mormon View of Paul." This post is more about the view of...
Highlights From Hardy @ Digital Faith
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Times & Seasons has posted a 12 Questions interview with Grant Hardy. He gives serious...
Like a Trampled Flag on a City Street @ a bird's eye view
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Pluralism and Persecution in the UK @ a bird's eye view
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Where Does It End? The Real Danger in Warren Smith’s Perspective @ a bird's eye view
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Christmas Testimony @ a bird's eye view
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Our Remembrance Sunday @ a bird's eye view
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