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Thanks for the Advice @ Mormanity
- I appreciate the good perspectives my readers offer. Based on feedback from the proposed...
Book Review: The Reluctant Blogger @ Segullah
- Todd Landry is not coping well with the sudden death of his wife and reluctantly seeks...
Character Sketch @ Segullah
- Sometimes I think small flickers of time and chance actually become bigger, longer...
Four Troubling Theological Assertions in the Book of Mormon @ Zelophehad's Daughters
- 1.
Location: 2 Nephi 4
Situation: Nephi is led by the Spirit, and finds Laban fallen to...
Mainstream Christian Feminism and Mormon Feminism @ Zelophehad's Daughters
- This is a basic overview of feminist theological issues. I have a vague memory that I...
Sheri Dew - Women and the Priesthood: What One Mormon Woman Believes @ As Sistas in Zion
- SISTASinZION Radio! Sundays 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen live...
I Need Less Love, Please @ Mormanity
- I need less love. Less love from some of the alleged Christians who passionately love me...
Making Space for Myself as an Uncorrelated Mormon–Part 3: Try This One Weird Trick @ Zelophehad's Daughters
- (Previous posts about making space can be found here, here, and here.)
A while back I...
An Important Day @ Segullah
- Kim is a lifelong Mormon who is an avid consumer of the written word. She is a fair cook...
“All these things shall give thee experience” @ Segullah
- Yesterday, as my dear mother-in-law, Barbara, and I worked in the kitchen while most of...
Being Prayed For @ Zelophehad's Daughters
- The oral exam I took at the end of my master’s program was a nightmare. I couldn’t...
A Song for the Body Electric @ Peculiar People
- A Song for the Body Electric When we moved from Boston to Salt Lake City, my husband had...
Blessed @ Segullah
- I believe one of the most courageous attributes we can develop in this life is gratitude....
An Ordinary Life @ Zelophehad's Daughters
- First I must confess that I do in fact like the line in Little Women when Jo’s...
Ritual Subordination: I Just Don’t Get It @ Zelophehad's Daughters
- I’m personally in favor of women’s ordination. But I can see why people have...
Stuff like this makes Facebook worth it…… @ Mormon Mentality
- This is Water
I hope I did that right :). I absolutely love this reminder of...
Handel's Messiah Comes to Shanghai: A Majestic Evening @ Mormanity
- Tonight was one of my most memorable evenings in China with a sold-out performance of...
A Town Like Alice, By Nevil Shute @ Segullah
- Jean Paget is English, living in Malaysia, when World War Two suddenly booms: the...
Don't Get Too Excited About the New DNA Evidence Linking Native Americans and the Middle East @ Mormanity
- Some Latter-day Saints might be getting overly excited about a valuable new finding...
Change Is Coming @ Segullah
- I can feel change coming, taste it like dust and jasmine on my tongue, but I can’t work...
Justice and Fairness @ Peculiar People
- It’s been interesting to follow discussions about gender and priesthood during the last...
A Reader’s Manifesto @ Segullah
- By now the recent New York Times article decrying the current state of Mormon Literature...
Being Nice @ Zelophehad's Daughters
- About a dozen years ago, I participated heavily on a message board for people with mental...
Mormon Women Bare, Katrina Barker Anderson + Journalist, Trent Toone @ As Sistas in Zion
- SISTASinZION Radio! Sundays 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen live...
Taxed With a Tax? @ Mormanity
- Taxes, the bane of the common people and the key to wealth and power for the ruling...
Sabbath Revival: The Simplicity of Thanksgiving @ Segullah
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Feminism and Redemption @ Zelophehad's Daughters
- One of the most intriguing critiques of certain aspects of feminism—specifically,...
Frogs in the Throat @ Zelophehad's Daughters
- One of my more unsettling memories of Primary comes from an afternoon when I was perhaps...
Hot Wife, Helpful Husband? @ As Sistas in Zion
- What happened to happy wife, happy life? A new study says husbands are happier in their...
Money Madness @ Segullah
- “Mom, how much money is in your bank account?” This was the question my son chose to...
Writing My Own Story @ Zelophehad's Daughters
- I wrote a post earlier in the week about coming out, but I was feeling too self-conscious...
Bogus Parallels Versus Christianity: Don't Be the Next Naive Victim @ Mormanity
- Recent posts here have explored how parallels between the Book of Mormon and a modern...
Broken Vessels @ Mormon Mentality
- I enjoyed listening to Elder Holland’s “Like a Broken Vessel” talk this...
Why Do Americans Love Pope Francis? @ Peculiar People
- The other day, I was talking to my students about how the press has been giving Pope...
The LDS Church: From Proposition 8 to Religious Freedom @ Patheos
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Though California's Prop. 8 passed by a wide margin, the LDS Church and its...
She Said, She Said: Mormon Women Bare @ As Sistas in Zion
- Our girl Jennifer Borget has a blog segment called “He Said, She Said” where she...
Shulem in the Book of Abraham: Possible Plausibility? @ Mormanity
- In my LDSFAQ page on the Book of Abraham, Part 2, I have previously acknowledged...
Being a Mormon Intellectual @ Peculiar People
- Indulge me a moment in some reflections on how I think about a portion of my scholarly...
Parallels with The Leaves of Grass: More Insights @ Mormanity
- Many thanks to Ben McGuire not only for his painstaking rebuttal of the “Late...
Sunday Best: Saturday is a Special Day @ As Sistas in Zion
- Is Saturday really the day that we get ready for Sunday? Sista Laurel shares her...
Parallels for the 2,000 Stripling Warriors in the Book of Alma: More Smoke from the Smoking Gun? @ Mormanity
- This is a follow-up to my length post on "Curious Parallels" between the Book of Mormon...
On Parallels and Plagiarism: Shouldn't Plagiarism Make Life Easier for the Plagiarist? @ Mormanity
- A favorite tactic for attacking the Book of Mormon today is to find parallels in other...
Songs for the Soul: He is With Us @ As Sistas in Zion
- Uplifting music has the power to put us in tune with the Spirit of Lord. The Sistas share...
Curious Parallels Between the Book of Mormon and The Late War Against the United States @ Mormanity
- As a follow up to my previous post about "The Late Great War Against the Book of...
Apologetics Again—But This Time with Feeling @ Peculiar People
- Violent, sudden, and calamitous revolutions are the ones that accomplish the least. While...
Podcast listeners: Update your RSS feeds again! @ Maxwell Institute
- If you subscribe to the Maxwell Institute Podcast we need you to update the RSS feed...
The Unavoidability of Faith @ Mormon Metaphysics
- Miles Kimball on the unavoidability of faith. Part Lectures on Faith and part...
Marriage Ain't for You {Urban Translation of Marriage Isn't for You} @ As Sistas in Zion
- If you tuned in to SiZ Radio last night you heard us talking to Seth Adam Smith author of...
Our Responsibility to Relieve Suffering @ Patheos
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Others needn't share my particular, Mormon beliefs to know that those who...
“If We Can’t Fix It, It Ain’t Broke” @ Peculiar People
- “IF WE CAN’T FIX IT, IT AIN’T BROKE.” Because I live in Hong Kong,...
Marriage Isn't For You {Seth Adam Smith & Aesha Adams-Roberts} @ As Sistas in Zion
- SISTASinZION Radio! Sundays 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen live...
The Walking Dead and what I think they should do differently @ Mormon Mentality
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I’ve watched some of The Walking Dead from time to time and been really grossed...
Luv True Luv... @ As Sistas in Zion
- Do we really "fall" in love or do we accept, allow, and embrace it? There are several...
Truth in Church History: Excerpts from the Religious Educator’s Q&A with Elder Steven Snow @ Maxwell Institute
- Elder Steven E. Snow recently replaced Elder Marlin K. Jensen as the Church Historian and...
Another Fun Statistical Squabble Over Book of Mormon Origins @ Mormanity
- Hot dog! An intriguing statistical squabble is underway in Mormondom. You can dig into...
Diary of a Single Mormon Female: A Review @ Peculiar People
- Few people are brave enough to publish their diary, and yet that is what Aleesa Sutton...
It Ain't Even Black History Month! @ As Sistas in Zion
- We thought PBS might hold it against us since folks said our Mormon brotha Mitt Romney...
Hush, He Was Christian: Remembering Lao She, One of China's Favorite Authors @ Mormanity
- When my wife and I were in Beijing last year, we visited a small memorial and museum...
2013–14 Nibley Fellowships Awarded @ Maxwell Institute
- In this post, Kristian Heal congratulates the recipients of the 2013-14 Nibley...
In Praise of Cafeteria Mormonism @ Peculiar People
- It was both troubling and fascinating (something like watching a car wreck) to witness...
Preachers of L.A. {Is Religion Right for Reality TV?} @ As Sistas in Zion
- SISTASinZION Radio! Sundays 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen live...
Glitch at the Maxwell Institute: Website Redesign Breaks Hundreds of Links @ Mormanity
- UPDATE, Nov. 3, 2013: The good folks at the Maxwell Institute are aware of the website...
MIP: Samuel Brown on In Heaven as it is On Earth and “Believing Adoption” @ Maxwell Institute
- In this episode of the Maxwell Institute Podcast, physician and historian Samuel M....
My Definition of the Priesthood @ Mormon Mentality
- I will tell you upfront, my husband Rob hates this. He hated it the first time I said it...
Black Cabs and Failed Taxis: We Survived Two Foreigner Feeding Frenzies on the Way to Church in Nanjing @ Mormanity
- I will admit that there have been times when I enjoyed being the center of attention, but...
There’s So Much to Do, Outside the Ivory Tower! @ Peculiar People
- I am an independent scholar. Not independently wealthy unfortunately – I have to earn...
Let's Not Be Heretics @ Patheos
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We are not unified just because we agree on theological questions, even when we
Stephanie and the Cop @ Mormon Mentality
- Stephanie wasn’t Mormon like me. Her family was Catholic but they weren’t very...
Don’t miss the Q&A with Spencer Fluhman in the latest Religious Educator @ Maxwell Institute
- The “Religious Educator”, published by BYU’s Religious Studies Center,...
Confirming a Small but Meaningful Miracle from President Monson's Life @ Mormanity
- In his October 2011 General Conference address, "Stand in Holy Places," President Thomas...
Suffer the Little Children……… @ Mormon Mentality
- Bookslinger sent me the link to this story today: Lawsuit against LDS Church (If this...
Book Notes: Why I Stay @ Maxwell Institute
- While the Church continues to report general growth, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf...
The Spirit, the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints @ Mormanity
- "The Spirit has left the Church." "Miracles and gifts of the Spirit are gone in the...
The Call of the Gospel @ Patheos
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The real pursuit is fidelity to the call of the gospel and the Person to whom it
MBR: Matthew Godfrey, Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volume 2, July 1831–January 1833 @ Maxwell Institute
- In episode 36 of The Mormon Book Review, Matthew Godfrey joins Kirk Caudle to...
The Priesthood Restored or Snuffed Out? John the Baptist Had It Right, I Think @ Mormanity
- In Utah especially and some other areas, a few Mormons are being influenced by an...
Mormon Scrupulosity @ Mormon Mentality
- I was listening to This American Life, a National Public Radio show you should be paying...
Test drive the Maxwell Institute’s brand new website @ Maxwell Institute
- Joseph Bonyata is director of the Institute’s publications department. He’s...
Sometimes Mormons Drive Me Crazy @ Patheos
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I am a Mormon and I love being one. I love "my people" as well as my church....
Mormons as Christians; Christians as Mormons @ Peculiar People
- In the nineteenth sixties and seventies, an “anti-cult” movement emerged in...
Book Notes: Common Ground, Different Opinions: Latter-day Saints and Contemporary Issues @ Maxwell Institute
- Common Ground, Different Opinions is a collection of essays written by a variety of...
Homes Rented By Non-Owners: A Scam That Blessed One Woman in Chicago @ Mormanity
- There's a rotten scam that is preying upon many needy Americans looking for places to...
A Night of Hope with Joel & Victoria Osteen { SLC, Utah Review} @ As Sistas in Zion
- SISTASinZION Radio! Sundays 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen live...
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater @ Mormon Mentality
- “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” is one of the few...
Studies in the Bible and Antiquity volume 5 now available @ Maxwell Institute
- The 2013 issue of Studies in the Bible and Antiquity has just been published and mailed....
Call for applicants: Mormon Theology Summer Seminar @ Maxwell Institute
- Next year, the Maxwell Institute is partnering with the Mormon Theology Seminar in...
The Church Under Condemnation: Tips for Those Tempted to Condemn Church Leaders @ Mormanity
- Apostasy often begins with attacking Church leaders. This is easy to do, and frankly,...
Book Notes: Thomas Alexander’s biography, Edward Hunter Snow @ Maxwell Institute
- At the dawn of the twentieth century the LDS Church was in the midst of a transition...
Didn’t Expect to Read This @ Mormon Mentality
- I started reading this article:
Weeping of a Disappointed Womb
off my internet news feed...
SiZ Radio: 183rd October LDS Conference Review @ As Sistas in Zion
- Sistas in Zion Radio! Every Sunday 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen here and...
Thoughts from Cambodia @ Mormanity
- Cambodia, where we've been the past 4 days, is far more beautiful and hospitable than we...
To Toil is Good for the Soul @ Mormon Mentality
- Years ago, a friend of mine was called to his stake president’s office. He assumed...
Staying in Sunday School @ Patheos
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Why not just cancel Sunday School if it isn't giving us what it should? Many...
MBR: Gerrit Dirkmaat, Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, Volume 1, July 1828-1831 @ Maxwell Institute
- In episode 35 of the Mormon Book Review, Kirk Caudle discusses The Joseph Smith Papers:...
Certainty of God @ Mormon Metaphysics
- A pair of interesting posts from The Audacious Epigone. The first notes that certainty of...
Hebraic Language Influence in Ancient America? @ Mormanity
- I've been reading John Sorenson's Mormon's Codex, whose electronic version happily now...
Elder Christofferson: “A little learning is a dangerous thing,”… so get a lot of it instead @ Maxwell Institute
- Elder D. Todd Christofferson gave an interesting devotional address last week at...
Most Generous Cities @ Mormon Metaphysics
- I know these lists are regularly done by magazines as a way of making news. They then...
D&C 107 and Ordaining Women @ Small and Simple
- A
MIP: Myron Penner on The End of Apologetics @ Maxwell Institute
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This episode of the Maxwell Institute Podcast focuses on the topic of apologetics, or...
Thinking Accountability @ Mormon Metaphysics
- Accountability is a weird concept. It’s one of those that seems pretty straightforward...
The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon and four other titles added to our online archive @ Maxwell Institute
- We’re hard at work getting the new Maxwell Institute website ready to launch. All...
A Girl's Guide to Football with Jessica Kehl @ As Sistas in Zion
- Sistas in Zion Radio! Every Sunday 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen here and...
The Nudge of an Irritating Line Jumper @ Mormanity
- Here in the Shanghai International District of the Church, our District President,...
Mormon's Codex by John Sorenson Is Finally in Print; Kindle Edition Comes in October @ Mormanity
- Book of Mormon students should be glad to know that they can now finally purchase the...
MBR: Merina Smith, Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy @ Maxwell Institute
- In episode 34 of the Mormon Book Review, Kirk Caudle discusses the book Revelation,...
Final preview from Sorenson’s Mormon’s Codex: The flight of the Nephites @ Maxwell Institute
- Over the past few weeks Matthew Roper has provided sneak peek excerpts from John L....
Giving @ Mormanity
- This beautiful 3-minute video from Thailand should be viewed while recalling the words of...
An Ordinary Hero: Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and Loki Mulholland @ As Sistas in Zion
- Sistas in Zion Radio! Every Sunday 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen here and...
Papers from the 2013 Summer Seminar on Mormon Culture, a guest post from Terryl Givens @ Maxwell Institute
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In this post, Terryl L. Givens discusses the recent seminar on early Mormon culture that...
Tenured Professors Are Worse Teachers? @ Mormon Metaphysics
- Study: Tenured Professors Make Worse Teachers. I do wish more universities made actually...
MIP: James Goldberg on The Five Books of Jesus @ Maxwell Institute
- “Here is something true:
The imagination needs to be strong as the heart,...
Mormon Survivor Dawn Meehan + Jack and Sherry Weyland @ As Sistas in Zion
- Sistas in Zion Radio! Every Sunday 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen here and...
Problems with OOO? @ Mormon Metaphysics
- I don’t consider myself well enough versed in Object Oriented Philosophy (sometimes...
Underwater archaeology and the Book of Mormon in Sorenson’s Mormon’s Codex @ Maxwell Institute
- To celebrate John L. Sorenson’s magnum opus Mormon’s Codex: An Ancient...
MBR: Quincy D. Newell, New Perspectives in Mormon Studies @ Maxwell Institute
- In episode 33 of The Mormon Book Review, Kirk Caudle discusses New Perspectives in...
How the Mother of Vampiro Rojo de Santanás Died at the Hand of the Ethicless Thing @ Mormon Organon
- I’ve been too busy of late to write any science posts, but here is a little...
Decline of Serial Killers and Rise of Sharing @ Mormon Metaphysics
- Interesting connection between “sharing culture” and the decline in serial...
On Handling Lectures… @ Mormon Metaphysics
- If you have an iPhone or something similar you listen to lectures on and also use iTunes...
Another Mormon’s Codex preview: Wine in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica @ Maxwell Institute
- The Book of Mormon indicates that its people cultivated intoxicating beverages. For...
SiZ Radio: Be Wise Magazine + Jamaican LDS Pioneer @ As Sistas in Zion
- Sistas in Zion Radio! Every Sunday 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen here and...
Updates on the state of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies… @ Maxwell Institute
- A different title? A new editor? Bringing in an advisory board? How about all...
Citizen Diplomacy and the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative @ Maxwell Institute
- Elder Ben B. Banks (right), an emeritus Seventy and a member of the Utah Council for...
Ask the Scholar: John L. Sorenson edition @ Maxwell Institute
- It’s time for another round of “Ask the Scholar,” an occasional blog...
A preview from Sorenson’s Mormon’s Codex: Pre-Columbian figurines from highland Guatemala @ Maxwell Institute
- This September, Deseret Book and the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship...
Nobody Asked You: A Dose of Unsolicited Christian Advice @ As Sistas in Zion
- Have you ever made a comment only to hear, "Nobody asked you!" Or read an advice column...
Sunday Best: What Does Sunday Best Mean? @ As Sistas in Zion
- Sunday best may mean something different to each of us, but here's what it means to the...
40 Answers from a Mormon @ Small and Simple
- A
A Mormon Studies Blogliography @ Maxwell Institute
- Cover of the upcoming Mormon Studies Review
What is Mormon studies? Who is doing...
Pay-Per-Pew: What if we had to pay for church seats? @ As Sistas in Zion
- On the surface paying for a seat at church sounds outrageous, but outrageous is right up...
MIP: George Handley on Mormonism and the environment @ Maxwell Institute
- “The body is the cup in which to drink the world.”
—George Handley
In 2010,...
Songs for the Soul: Listen to the Testimony @ As Sistas in Zion
- Uplifting music has the power to put us in tune with the Spirit of Lord. The Sistas share...
The Wizard and the Seer: Wordprint studies in the news again @ Maxwell Institute
- I didn’t know about Robert Galbraith’s new crime novel The Cuckoo’s...
The Story of Elijah Ables with Russell Stevenson @ As Sistas in Zion
- Sistas in Zion Radio! Every Sunday 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen here and...
MBR: Steven Peck, A Short Stay in Hell @ Maxwell Institute
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Episode 32 of The Mormon Book Review features Latter-day Saint author and evolutionary...
Hot off the press: Journal and Insights @ Maxwell Institute
- The latest issue of the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture is...
More Modern Modesty with Chandra Leonardo @ As Sistas in Zion
- Sistas in Zion Radio! Every Sunday 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen here and...
Liveblogging the FAIR Conference, part 2 @ Maxwell Institute
- I’m here at the 2013 FAIR Conference in Provo, Utah. I’ll be posting some of...
A few notes from the 2013 FAIR Conference @ Maxwell Institute
- The annual FAIR Conference is taking place today and tomorrow in Provo, Utah. (Streaming...
Notes from Oxford: The Soul Conference @ Maxwell Institute
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“To attain any assured knowledge about the soul
is one of the most difficult things...
MBR: Richard Bushman revisits Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling @ Maxwell Institute
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Episode 31 of The Mormon Book Review focuses on a new “classic” in Mormon...
It’s Pioneer Day! Time to read On Zion’s Mount @ Maxwell Institute
- Happy Pioneer Day!
I was recently preparing to interview BYU professor George Handley for...
Stand Ye in Holy Places and Be Not Moved @ As Sistas in Zion
- I thought I had it hard being a teenager in California and Washington. Being Mormon was...
Time to register for the FAIR Conference, August 1—2 @ Maxwell Institute
- The annual FAIR Conference is coming up next Thursday and Friday, August 1—2, in Provo,...
Back to Church Sunday: Problems in the Pew @ As Sistas in Zion
- Sistas in Zion Radio! Every Sunday 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen here and...
Watch Skousen’s lecture series on the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project @ Maxwell Institute
- In early 2013, our Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies sponsored three...
MBR: Kylee Shields, Make it Happen: A Guide to Happiness for LDS Singles @ Maxwell Institute
- Episode 30 of The Mormon Book Review focuses on the book Make it Happen: A Guide to...
Mary in Catholicism and Heavenly Mother in Mormonism: An addendum to the Givens podcast interview @ Maxwell Institute
- During a recent Maxwell Institute Podcast interview, Fiona Givens observed that Mormons...
MIP: Terryl and Fiona Givens, on faith, doubt, and The God Who Weeps @ Maxwell Institute
- At last, the Maxwell Institute Podcast is finally available on iTunes. The MIP will...
Ask Terryl and Fiona Givens @ Maxwell Institute
- Following the release of their new book The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of...
Why evolution matters to LDS Theology @ Mormon Organon
- There seems to be a temptation to borrow Christian fundamentalist creationist ideas and...
Insights on Insights, and a new website on the way @ Maxwell Institute
- FARMS Newsletter, July 1981
While compiling the latest issue of our newsletter Insights,...
John L. Sorenson’s 2011 Willes Center lecture, “Mormon’s Sources,” now on YouTube @ Maxwell Institute
- It’s been nearly thirty years since FARMS published John L....
MBR: Caroline Kline and Elizabeth Mott, Mormon Women Have Their Say: Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection @ Maxwell Institute
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Episode 29 of The Mormon Book Review focuses on the new book Mormon Women Have Their...
METI: To Recover, Preserve, and Remember (part II) @ Maxwell Institute
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For the past twenty years, a project called the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI)...
The Middle Eastern Texts Initiative: To Recover, Preserve, and Remember (part I) @ Maxwell Institute
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For the past twenty years, a project called the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI)...
From “pulp tub” to online hub: Lucy Mack Smith manuscripts and the Joseph Smith Papers Project @ Maxwell Institute
- In 1861, Brigham Young called on Latter-day Saints to light all copies of a certain book...
Marilyn Arnold’s 2011 Neal A. Maxwell lecture, “The Book of Mormon: Passport to Discipleship,” now available @ Maxwell Institute
- The fifth annual Neal A. Maxwell lecture was delivered by BYU emeritus professor of...
Death, the Fall, and Darwin: Roman Legions of Death, Part 2 of 7 @ Mormon Organon
- So to begin. Assume that the story that science tells is tout court correct. That humans...
Death, the Fall, and Darwin: A More Harmonious Reading, Part 1 of 7 @ Mormon Organon
- This is being posted semi-concurrently at BCC (Posted there about a week earlier than...
Scholar of Moab makes Ben Park’s ‘Nearly Essential Readings’ in Mormonism for Members! @ Mormon Organon
- Ben Park has compiled a list of Essential Readings in Mormonism that includes both...
What Happens When You Feed The Feminists? @ Small and Simple
- A
Clark Monson on Wolves @ Mormon Organon
- President Monson’s son weighed in on the debate about introducing wolves back into...
Lorenzo Snow Manual Lesson 5: Long Live the Couplet @ Small and Simple
- A
2012 in review @ Small and Simple
- A
On guns @ Mormon Organon
- In silence I’ve watched the splashes of opinion on Facebook and among blogs on gun...
Your Christmas gift guide @ Mormon Organon
- Having trouble picking which of my books you would like to give for Christmas? Here is a...
Dude. You Have the Scriptures on Your IPod?! @ Small and Simple
- A
The Good News – You are a Child of God. The Bad News – You Were Adopted?! @ Small and Simple
- A
Wise advice on Sunday School Teaching @ Mormon Organon
- From my friend Blair Hodges:
“Too often, the Sunday School teacher doesn’t...
Thoughts on Being a Ward Clerk @ Small and Simple
- A
Essential Properties of God: Freedom, Goodness and Necessity @ Small and Simple
- A
Scott Parkin’s review of my new book, Rifts of Rime @ Mormon Organon
- After all the excitement of this week, I am off on vacation to Maine. But to keep you...
Essential Properties of God: Omnipotent, Omniscient and Eternal @ Small and Simple
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