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July 2016

July 17, 2016
These two chapters are loaded. First, we encounter the third member of the Unholy Trinity of...
July 13, 2016
As part of the New Testament Commentary Seminar, a conference will be held at BYU Friday...
July 10, 2016
I did an Olympic-distance triathlon this morning, and it's left me pretty exhausted... body and...
July 03, 2016
Alma 17 begins with a chance meeting between Alma and the sons of Mosiah, and...
July 02, 2016
These chapters are the violent dénoument of the Ammonihah story. Grant Hardy cogently points out how this story...
July 02, 2016
Once again, the lesson and chapter divisions cut across the 1830/original chapter divisions, breaking up logical...

June 2016

June 28, 2016
One part of my book on Genesis 1 (trying to finish this summer) addresses the question...
June 25, 2016
Alma has divested himself of the judgeship to go on a mission of sorts, to...
June 18, 2016
Today we move into the Book of Alma. The stories of Alma Sr. and Alma...
June 18, 2016
(Posted from the Middle of Nowhere, Michigan.) This lesson has us jump to Alma's retelling of...
June 03, 2016
I'm spending a lot of my time writing about the idea of "context" right now,...

May 2016

May 22, 2016
Mormons have a thing about Doctrine, with a capital D. We try to define it,...
May 15, 2016
  When it comes to frustrations with Gospel Doctrine class, one problem is that we...
May 15, 2016
It's been a busy week. I capped off the semester by editing an 11,000 word...
May 09, 2016
On May 31, 1925, Elder Stephen L. Richards gave the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class...
May 07, 2016
I have an awful lot on my plate in the next week, so this is straight...

April 2016

April 30, 2016
Once again, I'd remind you of the book on King Benjamin's speech (paper here), and the...
April 24, 2016
To open, we need some big picture structural discussion. Mosiah 1 is not Mosiah 1. In...
April 24, 2016
It's been a few weeks since my last post. First came General Conference; the next...

March 2016

March 29, 2016
The general thrust of my research over the next few years will be science, religion,...
March 27, 2016
I only saw bits and pieces of the Women's Session of General Conference tonight, but...
March 26, 2016
The previous lesson covered Jacob 1-4, and this one the lengthy allegory of the olive tree and its interpretation...
March 19, 2016
Jacob marks a distinct and important break of sorts in the Book of Mormon. Why?...
March 19, 2016
These chapters are Nephi's literary swan song, his winding down. He's now in the position...
March 14, 2016
A friend recently asked for a list of books to read as an intro to...
March 12, 2016
Not a lot of time today, so here's a short post, on Nephi's non-contextual application of...
March 06, 2016
Last week was insane, and I didn't get a post up. Today I'm trying and...

February 2016

February 20, 2016
It's been a hectic week, I'm on the road without wifi, and Patheos did some...
February 14, 2016
A bit of news, connected to today's lesson. (If you haven't read the last one,...
February 12, 2016
Back in fall, I got interviewed about teaching early-morning Seminary. I even attended one morning,...
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