Monthly Archives: September 2010

Welcome Guest Blogger: MormonDeadHead

We are also pleased that MormonDeadHead as agreed to guest blog with us!  MDH likes studying the Bible.  We are looking forward to his contribution!

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Welcome Guest Blogger: Bored in Vernal

Many of you, like me, are very familiar for the work of Bored In Vernal. She has accepted our offer to guest post a little around here. She solo blogs at Hieing to Kolob. Her work at Mormon Matter can … Continue reading

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Lucretius on Walking Pornography

If you have been around the ‘Nacle for a spell you can’t have missed the oft discussed issue of men, women, and sexual response (one strap messenger bags, walking pornography, and thus and so).  Sometimes it seems that this anxiety … Continue reading

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New Permas: Enoch, oudenos, and BHodges.

I think I may have mentioned earlier that Enoch is now a permablogger with us, but it is worth repeating. Also, after lengthy and amazing guest stints, oudenos and BHodges have consented to join our permanent ranks. I am personally … Continue reading

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Announcing my first published book

More shameless self-promotion to distract from other more heated Bloggernacle happenings! My wife and I don’t have children yet, but we do have a daughter-dog. Her name is Chicken Delicious and we love her to death. She’s a mutt, her … Continue reading

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Mormons, Jews, and Atheists Know Most about Religion

A new Pew survey out today has been making the news.  It shows that Atheists/Agnostics, Jews, and Mormons have the highest religious literacy.  On the questions regarding Christianity and the Bible, Mormons scored at the top!  Among other Christians, Mormons … Continue reading

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Elder Jensen and the Exploitation of the Sacred Moments

I woke up this morning to find out via Facebook that Elder Marlin K. Jensen had apologized for Church participation in Proposition 8 (the headline was later changed to him apologizing for Prop 8 and later to “personally” apologizing). I … Continue reading

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Leonard J. Arrington on the indefiniteness of Stouffer's cooking instructions

Last night was the 2010 Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture. Appropriately enough, the subject of the lecture was Leonard J. Arrington. Among the 30,000 journal pages, Arrington took the time to record the frustrations of bachelorhood cooking. “My Stouffer’s … Continue reading

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Scholaristas…Go Read It!

Scholaristas is a new blog. I love it. It is written by a historian, a literature and religion scholar, and a political scientist. No wonder it rocks! The thing that I love about Scholaristas, is that it is an academic … Continue reading

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PhD Language Exam Exhaustion or Why I Am Looking Forward to Comprehensive Exams

These last 18 months have been brutal.  Since April of 2009 I have prepped and sat for 4 language examinations and I am two to four weeks away from sitting for my last one.  First French, then five months later … Continue reading

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