Monthly Archives: August 2009

Tips on Applying: Spotlight on GTU

Posted on August 31, 2009 by smallaxe

We’re keeping things rolling with a fan favorite. Sheila Taylor studies at Graduate Theological Union. I think I can say, speaking for FPR, that she’s one of the brightest people we know, and one of the finest scholars of the … Continue reading →

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Tips on Applying: Spotlight on UCSB

Posted on August 26, 2009 by smallaxe

We’re please to continue our series with a Spotlight on the University of California, Santa Barbara, provided by PhD student Stephen Flemming. Steve, as most are aware, blogs on JI. You can find out more about him here.

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Tips on Applying: Spotlight on Rice University

Posted on August 24, 2009 by smallaxe

The Tips on Applying Spotlights are back! For the entire Tips on Applying series see here. This Spotlight comes from Grant Adamson, a PhD student at Rice University. I’ve been at Rice for a year and could not be happier. Primarily I study … Continue reading →

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Testimony and Ethics

Posted on August 17, 2009 by TT

Testimony is clearly a central component of Latter-day Saint thought and culture. Testimony is a sacred discourse, with all of the power and potential that the sacred holds. One of my VCR-repair professors once came to church and remarked about … Continue reading →

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Tips on Applying to Grad Programs in Religious Studies (Part VI): Funding

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Guest Contributor

The follow post was written by oudenos as part of our continuing series on graduate education. Fall is approaching and applications to Humanities and Religious Studies PhD programs become due as early as the first week of December. Last year … Continue reading →

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Who Lectures on the Book of Mormon?

Posted on August 12, 2009 by nitsav

I’m a big fan of The Teaching Company. They have lots of good stuff on the Bible, world religions, and a bunch of lesser topics as well, like arts, philosophy, etc. It’s particularly interesting to hear Bart Ehrman and Luke … Continue reading →

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Desire

Posted on August 11, 2009 by TT

Michel Foucault traces the West’s shift in concern from sexual acts to sexual desires to second-century Greek thought, a shift which was fully embraced and completed by Christianity, in his series, The History of Sexuality.  This transition to concern for … Continue reading →

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The Good Samaritan as The Other

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Chris H.

The parable of the Good Samaritan is well known and much beloved. The image of the caring Samaritan tending to the bruised and bleeding traveler speaks to the goodness of mankind; despite the self-love of the world. I have noticed … Continue reading →

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Corianton’s major sin was … (fill in the blank)

Posted on August 2, 2009 by secco

[Note: In analyzing the passage describing Corianton’s sins, I do not seek to undermine in any way the Church’s emphasis on sexual purity. The benefits of chastity are marvelous and ineffable.] I’d like to consider Alma 39:5: Know ye not, … Continue reading →

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