Monthly Archives: August 2007

What Makes New Yorkers Love New York?

Posted on August 30, 2007 by nitsav

An off-topic post. My wife and I are visiting New York in the next little while, and contemplating a potential move there in a year. I’ve only been to NY once, and it was quite short. Since visiting as a … Continue reading →

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A Review of Terryl Givens, People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture

Posted on August 25, 2007 by vineripetomato

Terryl Givens’ new book is an important and welcome addition to Mormon studies and will be required reading for understanding the evolution of Mormonism as a distinct culture, especially where Givens moves out of the much-explored territory of the nineteenth … Continue reading →

Posted in LDS Church History | 16 Comments

A Disappointment

Posted on August 24, 2007 by nitsav

I posted recently about a little Iraqi boy who had been doused in gasoline and lit by fellow Iraqis. I did so to call attention to his plight, to mourn the evil in the world, and try to counteract it … Continue reading →

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Hell is Too Good for People like This

Posted on August 24, 2007 by nitsav

Words fail me. Follow-up, and some goodness left in the world. Edit: It looks like less than 1/4 of those who have read this post today actually follow the links, so I’ll summarize. A happy intelligent 5-year old boy in … Continue reading →

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Learning to Love Apostate Christianity

Posted on August 22, 2007 by vineripetomato

One sign of our institutional and historiographical maturity is the increasing attention that the “Great Apostasy” has been receiving (see for example Noel Reynolds, ed., Early Christians in Disarray, 2005). Since the oppositional pairing of apostasy and restoration is so … Continue reading →

Posted in Doctrine, LDS Church History | 15 Comments

The Divine Council and its Doctrinal Implications: an EV-Mormon Discussion

Posted on August 21, 2007 by nitsav

Several months ago, I mentioned Mike Heiser’s paper, “ You’ve Seen One Elohim, You’ve Seen Them All? A Critique of Mormonism’s Use of Psalm 82 .” Heiser wrote his dissertation on the topic of the Divine Council, and runs a … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible, Doctrine, Uncategorized | 12 Comments

Ten Tantalizing Tidbits about the Book of Mormon

Posted on August 20, 2007 by nitsav

These aren’t quite as tantalizing as TT’s NT tidbits, but we don’t have similar extra-scriptural data to work with here. I’m trying to be as provocative as I can (which probably just reveals my hard-core McConkie-style orthodoxy <g>)

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The Responsibility of the Scholar

Posted on August 18, 2007 by smallaxe

What is the responsibility of the academically trained scholar in Mormonism? As more LDSs go to graduate schools (or even various undergraduate institutions) and study religion, this becomes an interesting question. I’m defining “scholar” here as someone who has graduated … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Practices

Posted on August 16, 2007 by TT

What is the goal of our spiritual practices? Is it different from other contemporary or past Christianity communities? What type of human subjects do they produce? How do we navigate the competing ideals that our spiritual practices imitate? We have … Continue reading →

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Guest Blogger: Vine-Ripe Tomato

Posted on August 15, 2007 by TT

We are very pleased to welcome Vine-Ripe Tomato as a guest blogger for the next few weeks at FPR. Vine-Ripe Tomato is an organic farmer and sometime horse trainer in the South. S/he is also a very nice person who … Continue reading →

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