Monthly Archives: May 2009

Guest Blogger: Peripateia

Posted on May 31, 2009 by TT

We are really excited to welcome our newest guest blogger Peripateia.  Like many of our other bloggers, Peripateia is a PhD student in Religion, a returned missionary, and is also pretty dang cool.  We look forward to the posts!

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A Feminist Interpretation of Jesus’ Sayings Concerning (no?) Marriage in Heaven

Posted on May 28, 2009 by theyellowdart

Introduction LDS Christians proudly proclaim that woman and man may be joined in marriage through the power of God both for this life and the life to come.  For Mormons, the marriage covenant does not necessarily have to end when … Continue reading →

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Deep Agency

Posted on May 26, 2009 by smallaxe

One of the most common answers LDS’s give to the “purpose of life” question is that this life is a “training”,  or a time in which we are “proven” and “tested”. Central to this notion of the purpose of life … Continue reading →

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Tragedy in Cambridge, MA

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Guest Contributor

This morning at approximately 10:37 AM during the regional Stake Conference broadcast, the fire alarm sounded in the Longfellow Park LDS Chapel in Cambridge, MA.  At first, most thought it was a false alarm, but as people poured onto the … Continue reading →

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The Book of Mormon on Eve

Posted on May 13, 2009 by secco

I’m pretty sure my understanding of the Fall is woefully incomplete. I’ve been still trying to square statements that pop up with frequency in the Bloggernacle and even in General Conference talks that say things like, “Mormons believe that Eve … Continue reading →

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Cultural Capital and Critical Space

Posted on May 12, 2009 by smallaxe

This started off as a comment on TT’s thread, the Cultural Critic as Apologist; but as it grew in length I figured I should probably start a new post altogether. In TT’s thread he raises the issue of creating space … Continue reading →

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Nibley was smarter than you!!

Posted on May 11, 2009 by TT

There are many Nibley-o-philes who harbor an obsession with his extraordinary intellect. He knew lots of languages and was an incredibly creative thinker. He was on the cutting edge for many in his time by paying attention to otherwise obscure … Continue reading →

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Wait, that’s in the Bible?! Celestial Sex

Posted on May 4, 2009 by theyellowdart

Background/The Divine Council

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The Cultural Critic as Apologist

Posted on May 4, 2009 by TT

Those who “criticize” the church fall into a variety of camps. There are outsiders who criticize because the church’s teachings or practices conflict with their view of “truth” or “righteousness.” There are former or disaffected members who seek to explain … Continue reading →

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Wait, that’s (not) in the Bible?! Creation Ex Nihilo, Israelite Cosmology, and Science

Posted on May 3, 2009 by theyellowdart

As I have discussed in a series of posts on creation in Genesis 1-3 (see: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), the vast majority of biblical scholars now recognize that the ancient Israelites viewed the cosmos as … Continue reading →

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