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February 2016

February 22, 2016
Not too long ago, I wrote in the Salt Lake Tribune that I feel an...
February 12, 2016
Here at the college at which I am still, remarkably, employed, students are performing a...
February 10, 2016
  First, let me say that even while I concede that I know next to...
February 01, 2016
"Eff the ineffable", wrote Terry Eagleton in an attempt to figure out Samuel Beckett's work....

January 2016

January 22, 2016
By all that is holy, Ruth should never have left Moab.  I know, I know:...
January 11, 2016
Blog Editor's Note: Dear readers, all seven of you—On account of a confrontation this past...
January 01, 2016
Name the most genuinely religious song in the songbook that the LDS church has approved...

December 2015

December 19, 2015
Taxation, some say, started it all. Or a census. Augustus, some say, decreed an accounting....

November 2015

November 30, 2015
Nietzsche, famously or infamously towards the end of the nineteenth century, declared the death of...
November 06, 2015
As of yesterday, assuming the news stories are right, if you’re three days old, innocent,...
November 04, 2015
Fellow LDS-Mormon Patheos blogger James Faulconer has argued that people in the LDS-Mormon community should...

October 2015

October 19, 2015
One way to dismiss the story and all that it says about how to get...
October 06, 2015
O, Faithful of the Great Pushback, take note of Pope Francis before Congress.  Selecting four...
October 02, 2015
The fundamental myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition has a distinctly patriarchal tone to it, justifying...

September 2015

September 20, 2015
What we really need to do, as a modern, scientifically-enlightened, empirically-minded, rational society is ban...
September 15, 2015
At one of the several crucial moments of the narrative, Jesus tells his followers that...
September 03, 2015
I've been hearing a lot about "God's Law" in my local congregation, recently.  Particularly the...

August 2015

August 17, 2015
I don't know anything about “Fair Mormon”, apart from the fact that whoever came up...
August 05, 2015
(Editor's Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of...
August 03, 2015
My first inclination upon hearing that the LDS church plans to reexamine its relationship with...

July 2015

July 09, 2015
I'm traveling in India these days, which means that I'm enjoying a lovely respite from...

June 2015

June 25, 2015
We bought our first home, here in Memphis, more than a decade ago, and we celebrated...
June 17, 2015
One of the things that keeps Mormonism from being Christian is its dogmatic attachment to...
June 05, 2015
Archimedes is reported to have said, lo, these more-than-two-millennia ago, that if he were given...

May 2015

May 22, 2015
Word has come from none other than Robert Gates that the Boy Scouts of America...
May 08, 2015
We finally have empirical evidence that Jesus knew everything.  The son of god, of course,...

April 2015

April 24, 2015
The Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, or RFRA's, that the states are adopting, pell-mell, have the...
April 17, 2015
Anyone—Mormon or otherwise—who has sat through any LDS Mormon church services conducted in English has...
April 04, 2015
  I do my exercises faithfully.  Not only because I had back surgery fifteen years...

March 2015

March 23, 2015
In the mid-eighteenth century, Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist, figured out what mammals are: hairy,...
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