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October 2015

October 20, 2015
This is the clearest public statement from Church leaders on Kim Davis' refusal to issue...
October 20, 2015
For those of you not living on the Wasatch Front, please know that winter began...
October 19, 2015
In 1988, I was in the first full group at the Jerusalem Center. Opposition to...
October 19, 2015
I am confident that never before, in the history of the Tabernacle, has there been...
October 18, 2015
Mormonphobia. The fear of all things Mormon. Are the fears justified? It depends how one...
October 17, 2015
Dearth: dry, parched, distressed, empty, in need of life-sustaining water and nutrients. The most prominent...
October 16, 2015
Holy envy is a phrase coined by Krister Stendahl (1921-2008) who was Bishop of Stockholm...
October 15, 2015
Here is my prediction—for what it’s worth. I believe that the greatest announcement since the...
October 14, 2015
In the late 1980’s, Boyd K. Packer spoke at the Missionary Training Center. He spoke...
October 14, 2015
I first taught the course Teachings of the Living Prophets to university students Fall Semester...
October 13, 2015
A post to those critical of President Devin Durrant’s most recent conference talk wherein he...
October 12, 2015
It has been just over one week since the fateful day that a new word...
October 10, 2015
Wine in the New Testament is alcoholic. Period. Historical revisionists, that are also Mormon, are...
October 10, 2015
It has been 22 years since the Parliament of the World’s Religions was held in...
October 09, 2015
Just over one year ago Neylan McBaine published Women at Church. A few notes about...
October 08, 2015
I grew up in anti-Catholic Mormonism. Catholicism was the “Great and Abominable Church” and it...
October 07, 2015
This blog is intended to correct a common misperception about Evangelicalism on the part of...
October 05, 2015
Jewish women of first century Palestine were severely limited. Like the greater Greco-Roman world, Jewish...
October 04, 2015
I am a gun enthusiast. I own several guns—rifles, handguns, shotguns. If you’re not a...
October 02, 2015
Concerning sacrifices. Biotic rapport is a distinct tie between the life and livelihood of the...
October 01, 2015
Religious bilingualism is a critically important skill to navigate in religiously diverse landscapes. For example,...
October 01, 2015
Yesterday I posted the release of an updated or revised Race and the Priesthood essay...
October 01, 2015
Concerning Illegal immigration: divine law, natural law, positive law must be considered by Mormons and...

September 2015

September 30, 2015
Just over 30 years ago I was introduced to Evangelical Christianity while serving in the...
September 28, 2015
"For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love...
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