http://hughnibley.net/2013/03/31/forty-easters-ago/ Read more

A nice book to read for Easter is Eric Huntsman, God So Loved the World: The Final Days of the Savior’s Life, (Deseret, 2011), ISBN 1606419757 http://www.amazon.com/God-So-Loved-World-Saviors/dp/1606419757/ Read more

My outline of the resurrection narratives of the New Testament in celebration of Easter. resurrection narratives Read more

The FAIR blog and podcast. http://www.fairblog.org/ http://www.fairblog.org/mormon-fair-cast/ Read more

One cannot proclaim a truth by hiding it.  Laozi Read more

New from the Maxwell Institute, a great lecture by James Faulconer on Moroni 10. http://www.maxwellinstituteblog.org/our-new-youtube-channel/ Read more

From John Gee’s blog, quoting Neal A. Maxwell in 1991 http://fornspollfira.blogspot.com/2013/03/todays-maxwell-quote_29.html I’ve never made any secret of my appreciation for FARMS. As I see you grow larger and become more significant, I’ll never have any greater appreciation than I did a few years back when our enemies were lobbing all sorts of mortar shells into our Church encampment and among the few guns blazing away were the guns of FARMS. . . . As big and wonderful as you will... Read more

In a recent blog comment Ben Park describes “a different approach to apologetics,” apparently favored by some young scholars. He describes it by quoting Richard Bushman: These younger scholars have a new attitude toward Mormon apologetics. They are no longer so interested in defending the faith in the old sense. In the time of Nibley, the aim of scholarship was to prove Mormonism true. In the new age, the aim of Mormon scholarship is to find the truth about Mormonism.... Read more

by John Gee, about and important and timely issue. http://fornspollfira.blogspot.com/2013/03/more-trouble-at-harvard.html Read more

Another interesting thing becomes apparent when you peruse the list of the advisory board for the new Mormon Studies Review (MSR). http://www.maxwellinstituteblog.org/announcing-the-new-mormon-studies-review-2/ No one from BYU Religious Education (or BYU affiliates or CES) appears among the advisory board or editors.  Is this because there are no legitimate Mormon Studies scholars in BYU Religious education?  Is it because they didn’t ask anyone from Religious Education?  Or is it because no one from Religious Education accepted?  And, in either case, why? This, combined with... Read more