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June 2014

June 30, 2014
Can be found here. It's too bad that those who really need to understand this...
June 23, 2014
Interesting perspective from George Q Cannon on the meaning of Apostasy, From FAIR.  
June 23, 2014
Kate Kelly of "Ordain Women" has been excommunicated.  Salt Lake Tribune account here.  
June 21, 2014
Despite the rhetorical posturing of many critics of the Church, it does not excommunicate people...
June 18, 2014
See here.  
June 18, 2014
From Greg Smith.  
June 18, 2014
There is an (intentional?) confusion and conflation among some critics of the Church regarding the...
June 18, 2014
Some of the critics of the Church like to claim that "apostasy" means "standing apart,"...
June 18, 2014
The recent controversy over church courts has led to a bit of confusion and conflation...
June 16, 2014
A friend of mine sent me this interesting new report: Sunday, July 15, 2014 Republican's...
June 11, 2014
Noted critic of Mormonism John Dehlin is facing possible excommunication.  No doubt there will be...
June 11, 2014
I'm going to be teaching a class on "Mysticism and Esotericism" at BYU, in Fall...
June 11, 2014
People interested in temple theology, deification, celestial ascent, and biblical esoterica should check out David...
June 08, 2014
Not exactly religious, but it is the great tragedy of our age that such a...
June 06, 2014
The claim is often made by supporters of the Documentary Hypothesis that there is scholarly...
June 04, 2014
I'll be leading a tour to Guatemala on 23 January-1 Feb 2015. Click here for...
June 04, 2014
Another remarkable characteristic of the Documentarians is their unwillingness to simply admit, “We just don’t...
June 04, 2014
A review of The Apocalypse in the Light of the Temple by Peter Leithart.  This book basically...
June 04, 2014
Interesting reflections on what I call Para-Buddhists (people on the sides or fringes of Buddhism)....
June 04, 2014
Photos from my recent trip to Idaho Falls LDS Temple.  
June 02, 2014
Just got back from my first-ever trip to the Grand Tetons in Wyoming.  It's absolutely...
June 02, 2014
The Mormon Theology Seminar on 1 Nephi will occur this June in London.  It is...
June 02, 2014
On "Mormon Stories."  Interesting for their reflections on the "new" Maxwell Institute. Dan Peterson extracted...
June 02, 2014
Hamblin-Peterson column in the Deseret News on religious art.  

May 2014

May 29, 2014
The ever insightful Larry Hurtado reviews Bart Ehrman's new book How Jesus Became God (2104).  
May 25, 2014
One of the latest book-length defenses of the Documentary Hypothesis, Joel Baden’s The Composition of...
May 22, 2014
Kent Brown, professor emeritus at BYU and a leading scholar on the New Testament and...
May 21, 2014
Documentarians generally claim that they can: 1- identify the four different sources within the Pentateuch;...
May 19, 2014
As far as I can tell, there is no example of any other ancient Jewish...
May 18, 2014
Spring City, Utah (population 1000), is an old Mormon pioneer agrarian settlement from the 1850s.  It...
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