Posted in History on Nov 13th, 2010
I’ve been watching the PBS television series “God in America” on Apple TV. It’s a history of religion in America told in six one-hour segments, beginning with the Massachusetts Bay colony and ending with Obama. If you haven’t seen it, I’d recommend it highly – it’s very well done and I learned a lot. One [...]
Posted in Bible, Church teaching, Doctrine, History, Scripture on Nov 9th, 2010
In my last post (and hinted at in the one before that), I raised the idea that prophets tend to share the worldviews and myths of their culture, with myth properly defined as something like “worldview expressed in narrative.” Their revelations are by necessity received and framed within that worldview. In other words, prophets in [...]
Posted in Church, Doctrine, History, Personal Narratives, teaching on Oct 23rd, 2010
Several years ago, a conference was organized by Richard Bushman, Terryl Givens, and several LDS graduate students. Concerned by perceptions of a general abandoning of faith among LDS grad students in religion-related fields, the conference’s focus was encapsulated in its title, Faith and Knowledge.
Posted in Bible, History, Podcast, Scripture, teaching on Sep 28th, 2010
This podcast is long delayed and the first podcast on Isaiah has been written already. Various things have prevented me from posting it so far. General Conference this weekend gives me a chance to catch up, so I’ll try to post several podcasts in the next 7 days. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] [...]
Posted in Bible, History, Podcast, Scripture on Sep 10th, 2010
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] (Right-click and save here to download.) Openining clip: Loreena McKennit, “Marco Polo.” Transcript (I ad libbed a bit more this time.) Notes and references:
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 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 [...]
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 Bible, Church teaching, History, Scripture on Jul 15th, 2010
Right about now in Gospel Doctrine classes, everyone should nearing the Divided Kingdom stories, when Jereboam breaks off and takes 10 tribes with him, and we get two Israelite kingdoms (Israel and Judah) with two Israelite kings (Reheboam and Jereboam.) And coincidentally right about now, it gets darn hard to keep everyone straight. Instead of [...]
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