Posted in Interfaith on Aug 31st, 2010
As I run the Mormon Portal, Star Foster runs the Pagan Portal here at Patheos. Yes, we have a Pagan Portal, as well as Catholic, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Evangelical, etc. (Go to the main page and click on Religion Portals to explore a bit.) She’s been putting up thoughts about whichever religious tradition is [...]
Posted in Culture on Aug 27th, 2010
I have a confession: the music in the waiting chapel of the Salt Lake Temple drives me nuts. There I am, sitting reverently in my white dress, waiting for the session to start, and instead of a quiet atmosphere in which to ponder the reasons I came to the temple that day or even say [...]
Posted in Doctrine, Speculation on Aug 27th, 2010
For $100, you can learn your ancestors’ migratory history on the earth. National Geographic’s Genographic Project is seeking to learn more about human migration by analyzing the DNA of people around the world, including National Geographic readers who are interested in submitting their own cheek swab and in return getting a map of either their [...]
Posted in Doctrine, History, Personal Narratives on Aug 25th, 2010
Patheos has informal partnerships with several of the established brands in Mormonism as well as the Church itself. (Mayhap you noticed two of our guest writers from SLC last week?) As such, we’re beginning a new long-term series. Each week we’ll feature a select article from one of these partners for publication and discussion on [...]
Posted in History on Aug 23rd, 2010
This is continued from my post on changing racial perceptions of the Chinese in LDS rhetoric at the turn of the 20th century. Both sections here are adapted from research I conducted as a fellow during the Joseph Smith Seminar in 2007. In 1890 there were only four documented “persons of Japanese ancestry” in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2010
It’s not clear to me whether John Lennon realized he was proposing his own sort of Heaven when he wrote the classic ballad “Imagine,” but that’s what he was doing. He invites us to “imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try” and describes a world of peace and love, a sort of heaven [...]
Posted in History on Aug 20th, 2010
Browsing through library databases and catalogues today, it is difficult to find even a handful of hits on Mormonism and Asian race. Even Armand Mauss’ recent sweeping study, All Abraham’s Children, notably omits any specific inquiry on the subject, though he meticulously dissects an LDS understanding of Blacks, Native Americans, and Jews.[1] Yes, some inferences [...]
It’s been five years since I posted this, and it came up in a Church discussion the other day, so it’s time for a repeat. I enjoy Orson Scott Card’s books. My in-laws feel that he portrays evil too much in them. OSC has his own defenses of this (cf. A Storyteller in Zion), but [...]
Posted in Bible, History, Podcast, Scripture on Aug 16th, 2010
It’s been busy around here, putting together the Future of Mormonism series. Other things too. But we’re back, trying to make up lost time. Here’s the podcast on lessons 29-30, which cover Elisha and then Hezekiah and Josiah. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Transcript Download link for MP3 (right-click and “save as” Notes:
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2010
I know there are some other LDS Logos users, and perhaps others who are interested but wondering about the whys and whats. Edit: Logos4 for Mac will officially leave beta in October. Logos is having a giveaway to publicize it. Why use an electronic library? Carry around 200,000 or 200,000,000 pages of text in your [...]
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