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February 2015
February 10, 2015
Freedom is Religious, or it’s Not Freedom
(shutterstock) My latest in the Deseret News: no freedom without religious freedom. "It is unsettling...
February 10, 2015
Anti-Christs Among Us
The indomitable Maurine Proctor has said what so many faithful Mormons who support the Church...
January 2015
January 31, 2015
Mother(s?) for Patriarchy
If you're ready to think deep, and against the grain, try this remarkable essay that...
January 21, 2015
Who’s Afraid of Secularism (4): Humility, Patience and Progressive “Moral Convictions”
I have been otherwise occupied and have neglected my engagement with David Bokovoy’s very reasonably-presented...
January 12, 2015
Who’s Afraid of Secularism? (3) Or, My Irrepressible Rationalism
So just what is my problem with a certain “secularism” that seems to be setting...
January 09, 2015
Who’s Afraid of Secularism 2: My “Bracketing”
I was trying in my previous post, “Who’s Afraid of ‘Secularism’?”, to provide some clarity...
January 07, 2015
Who’s Afraid of “Secularism”?
Disagreement I can deal with. As a scholar of political philosophy and its history, you...
December 2014
December 24, 2014
Intellect and Affection – How to Be a Faithful Mormon Intellectual
I suppose I should be happy that no one has undertaken in any substantial way...
December 22, 2014
To Whom Shall We Go: From Apologetics to Mormon Studies
OK, the full article is now available at Meridian (For most, it should be...
December 19, 2014
From Apologetics to Mormon Studies: The Case of Benjamin Park — with Reference to Dan Peterson, David Holland, and Terryl Givens
Here are some excerpts from a 6700-word essay to appear shortly at Meridian/Expand: "To Whom...
December 13, 2014
Joseph Spencer on The Responsibility of Reason
Here is editor John Welch's able summary of Joe Spencer's serious and thoughtful review essay...
December 09, 2014
The Secular Storm: Nothing to Fear? (4)
[continued from here] As Matthew Wickman, Director of the BYU Humanities Center, pointed out, the...
December 06, 2014
BYU Prof FEARS SECULARISM (3): What, me Worry?
As I was saying: The Salt Lake Tribune has presented me as a critic of...
December 06, 2014
The Kindle of a Conservative: Marginal Fragments of a Correlated Worldview (2) – Steven D. Smith and the Problem of Religious Freedom
I'm probably going to need to shorten that title in future installments... As I...
December 04, 2014
BYU Prof FEARS SECULARISM (2): Why I am so Simple
Before proceeding to a deft and devastating disarming of my critics, let me repeat my...
November 2014
November 30, 2014
“BYU prof FEARS SECULARISM”
I appreciate Peggy Fletcher Stack’s and the Salt Lake Tribune’s interest in our new initiative...
November 30, 2014
Ralph on Rome (the Ancient one)
Here's my latest little piece on the significance of Rome for Western transcendence.
November 29, 2014
The Kindle of a Conservative: Marginal Fragments of a Correlated Worldview (1)
I, Ralph C. Hancock, Having occasionally undertaken to criticize the critics of ordinary, mainstream views...
November 18, 2014
Rome Report: Pres. Eyring and Prof. Wardle Praise Complementarity
I was pleased to receive this email dispatch from Rome from my friend Lynn Wardle,...
November 11, 2014
BYU, the Family, and the Gospel of Self-Indulgence. Prof. Sven Wilson on Family Capital
My colleague and now Department Chair, Sven Wilson, recently (10/23) delivered the annual Virginia F....
November 11, 2014
Apologetics of Intellectual Frameworks
Sorry I've been absent for a while. Well, here's part of my excuse - a...
October 2014
October 26, 2014
Givens on Mormon “Continuing Revelation”: History, Intellectual Eclecticism, and the Spirit’s Guidance
Another in a series of notes and highlights on Terryl Givens’ very important Wrestling the...
October 22, 2014
Terryl Givens’ Foundations: Wrestling with History and Theology
I could be annoyed by Terryl Givens. His new Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of...
October 21, 2014
Celebrating BYU III: The Glory of God and the Purpose of Reason
[A continuation of my earlier reflections on BYU, in response to Professor Richard Bushman] But...
October 18, 2014
Celebrating BYU, Part Deux: or Why I am so “Divisive”
I was happy to discover, a few months ago, that Richard Bushman, the most...
October 08, 2014
Morality and Transcendence
Check out my latest at National Review Online (Postmodern Conservative blog), where I compare "Ray...
October 03, 2014
Seeking the Promised Land
I'm just working through a timely, insightful and judicious new book: Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons...
October 01, 2014
“Your Mind doth begin to Expand”
[T]he word hath swelled your soul… and your mind doth begin to expand. (Alma 32:34)...
September 2014
September 27, 2014
Natural Law and The Person: Catholic and Mormon Questions
For readers who may have an interest in some finer points of political philosophy (within...
September 26, 2014
Celebrating BYU
It has been a few weeks now since BYU inaugurated its new president, in an...
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