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Pro-Life: A Fiercely Held Moderate Position @ Times & Seasons
- The Legal Status of Abortion, Revisited I’ve talked to Terryl Givens (my dad) a few...
Machine Translation @ Times & Seasons
- Two attitudes about translation are on my mind. One is about Joseph Smith: “Seeing...
On Terryl Givens and Abortion @ By Common Consent
- Yesterday Terryl Givens published what he characterized as “A Latter-day Saint...
President Nelson’s Favorite Topics and Statements, Part 3: The Family @ Times & Seasons
- Throughout my time studying President Nelson’s conference addresses, I observed that...
Baptized for the Dead @ By Common Consent
- Several years ago I was invited to contribute to a Festschrift in honor of Jack Welch. I...
What Gets You Through? @ By Common Consent
- Note: there’s nothing particularly Mormon-y about this post, except that it deals...
John Turner on Brigham Young @ Times & Seasons
- John Turner’s well-known biography Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Harvard University...
Far-Right Appeals to Islamophobia Fall Flat in Vienna @ By Common Consent
- The poster shows a smiling man still on the uphill slope of middle age with his arm...
Interpreters, visions and seer stones @ Times & Seasons
- The Interpreter has recently published two reviews of William L. Davis’ Visions in a...
It is a sin to vote for Donald Trump. @ By Common Consent
- I thought about writing something longer, pointing people to Mosiah 29, enumerating his...
President Nelson’s Favorite Topics and Statements, Part 2: The Church @ Times & Seasons
- Last year, the Church released the guidelines by which a committee was evaluating hymns...
Wash or Bathe? @ By Common Consent
- What the JST does in the first part of John 13:10 caught my attention. So at the...
The Giant Joshua – Chapter 17: The Great Smile and the Sequel @ By Common Consent
- Thank you for sticking with us this last two months! We end with a discussion of the...
President Nelson’s Favorite Topics and Statements, Part 1: God and Power @ Times & Seasons
- This is the beginning of the second part of my analysis of President Russell M....
The Giant Joshua, Chapters 15 and 16: Polygamy raids, life on the underground, and the real-life stories behind the novel @ By Common Consent
- By Andrew Hall We are nearing the end of this monumental novel, with only the final, 17th...
Perils on every side @ Times & Seasons
- Our unhappy political moment has unfortunately corrected a longstanding asymmetry in...
Sukkot and Settling Into Fall @ By Common Consent
- [Cross-posted to In Media Res] This year I planted a spring garden for the first time....
Babies, Prayer, and Just Why @ By Common Consent
- I prayed for Chrissy Teigen last night. And then I felt silly. If you aren’t aware, she...
President Nelson’s Conference Addresses, Part 1: Introductory Comments @ Times & Seasons
- A couple years back—not long after President Russell M. Nelson was sustained as...
Reconsidering the Curse of Ham @ Times & Seasons
- In a candid moment in January 1858, an early Church leader named Zerah Pulsipher told his...
“Come, Follow Me” and The Family: A Proclamation to the World @ Times & Seasons
- The “Come, Follow Me” manuals for 2021’s course of study are available online...
The delicious detail of Benjamin Park’s book The Kingdom of Nauvoo @ Times & Seasons
- I recently read (okay, listened to) Benjamin Park’s book Kingdom of Nauvoo: The...
Calls to the Quorum of the Twelve: An Analysis @ Times & Seasons
- For something relatively out of the blue, I want to take a moment to consider potential...
They’re not wrong @ Times & Seasons
- They’re not wrong. Not about everything.
I disagree with their choice of candidate....
The Rise and Decline of the Angel Moroni @ Times & Seasons
- If you were to ask someone what the founding vision of the Restoration was at different...
Come Follow Me “correction” As Harmful As Before @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- Dear Latter-day Saints,
The latest online correction to the Come Follow Me manual has me...
Authority, Scripture, and Social Location @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- By Margaret Olsen Hemming
Over the last couple of years, I’ve described The Book of...
Pop Culture Friday: Justice In America @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- It’s been awhile since I promo-ed a podcast. Today I’m spotlighting a more serious...
Pop Culture Friday: Jane the Virgin @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- If you are looking for a binge-worthy TV show with fantastic characters, great acting, a...
Pop Culture Friday: Dread Nation @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- Today’s (slightly late, sorry, the school year just started and my brain is mostly...
Pop Culture Friday: The Memory of Light and Disappeared @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- I have a 2-in-1 recommendation for you today, two excellent books by Francisco X....
Pop Culture Friday: The Poet X @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- I love a good slam poem, one full of emotion and power and truth. One of the great...
Pop Culture Friday: The Witch Boy @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- Aster’s family keeps to themselves. They live in the woods outside of town and have...
Pop Culture Friday: #WizardTeam @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- Today I want to highlight one of my favorite podcasts: #WizardTeam by Black Girls...
Pop Culture Friday: Patina by Jason Reynolds @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- Patina by Jason Reynolds Middle Grade Realistic Fiction
Patina Jones ain’t no junk....
