The Mormon Archipelago

Scholarly Inquiry: A Conversation with Stephen C. Taysom, II @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  Eighteen months ago, Taysom was deep into work on a biography of Joseph F. Smith,...

Farewell @ Keepapitchinin
  -  Farewell By Rhoda Watson Dear friends the time is drawing nigh When I to you must say...

Commencing Work in Brazil @ Keepapitchinin
  -  Brazil

“Cast Thy Bread” @ Keepapitchinin
  -  There are some aspects here to make readers of the 21st century squirm, but, having...

To All Deluded Cheapskates @ Keepapitchinin
  -  From the Improvement Era, September 1902 — . .

Review: The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  This review was written by Courtney Jensen Peacock, a PhD student in American Studies at...

JI Summer Book Club: A House Full of Females Chapter 15 @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  This is the fifteenth entry in the Third Annual Summer Book Club at Juvenile Instructor....

Saturday Remix, 1916 (5) @ Keepapitchinin
  -  Remix

On Art, and History, and Who Gets to Say What, When, and Where @ Keepapitchinin
  -  On Art and History

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

Oh, Grant to Me @ Keepapitchinin
  -  Improvement Era, August 1954, 557

“I Take Up My Pen”: Star Valley Stake, 1904 @ Keepapitchinin
  -  Star Valley Stake

CFP: 2018 Regional AAR at BYU @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  AAR/SBL Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Region Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah: March...

These Let Him Find @ Keepapitchinin
  -  These Let Him Find By Rose Thomas Graham When he comes back, he will not be the same, A...

“Blessing us with better means of learning” @ Keepapitchinin
  -  Blessing Us

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...

Q&A with Patrick Mason on the Global Mormon Studies Center at CGU @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  We are pleased that Patrick Mason, Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont...

JI Summer Book Club: A House Full of Females Chapter 14 @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  This is the fourteenth entry in the Third Annual Summer Book Club at Juvenile...

JI Summer Book Club: A House Full of Females Chapter 13 @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  This is the thirteenthentry in the Third Annual Summer Book Club at Juvenile Instructor....

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

Student and Early-Career Scholar Workshop: A Report @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  In early June, Kris and I organized a “publication workshop” for graduate students...

Religion and Mental Health @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  Dr. Scott Braithwaite’s recent Education Week talk has gotten me thinking about what...

Correlation Kettle Meet Snuffer Pot @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  Yesterday’s document drop in Mormon WikiLeaks included a letter titled “Report from...

JI Summer Book Club: A House Full of Females Chapter 12 @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  This is the twelfth entry in the Third Annual Summer Book Club at Juvenile Instructor....

Duane Boyce and the Interpreter: A Step in the Wrong Direction @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  Do prophets make mistakes? When prophets speak do they always speak the word of God?...

Duane Boyce is the Hero We Deserve @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  Over the past three weeks The Interpreter has published portions of Duane Boyce’s...

JI Summer Book Club: A House Full of Females Chapter 11 @ Juvenile Instructor
  -  This is the eleventh entry in the Third Annual Summer Book Club at Juvenile Instructor....

We’re Moving! @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  Over the course of the next week or so we are going to move back to our old domain,...

On Cruises, Cash, and BYU Religious Education @ Faith-Promoting Rumor
  -  Guest post from a friend of the blog. I should also point out that the behavior...

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...

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...

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
  -   The latest entry in the how-to-read-the-Bible genre is How to Read the Bible (HarperOne,...

Teaching Genesis @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   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
  -   A week ago, the Church released a suddenly iconic photograph of Joseph Smith's favorite...

Review: Fresh Courage Take @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   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
  -   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
  -   Merina Smith's Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy: The Introduction and...

Day of the Lamanite, Deferred @ Dave's Mormon Inquiry
  -   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
  -   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
  -   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
  -   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
  -   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
  -  A

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
  -  A

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
  -   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
  -   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
  -   In the middle part of The Lost World of Genesis One, Walton details his theory of the...

Genesis 1 Is Functional Creation @ Digital Faith
  -   In propositions 2 through 6 of The Lost World of Genesis One author John Walton supports...

Genesis 1 Is Ancient Cosmology @ Digital Faith
  -   That's the first of 18 propositions discussed in John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis...

N. T. Wright on Paul @ Digital Faith
  -   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
  -   My recent posts on Paul haven't proven too popular, but I'm still pursuing the topic. I...

A Revolutionary Paul @ Digital Faith
  -   Continuing with this series of posts on Paul, here's what N. T. Wright (in What Saint...

Reading Paul's Letters @ Digital Faith
  -   My last post was titled "A Mormon View of Paul." This post is more about the view of...

Highlights From Hardy @ Digital Faith
  -   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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