Those Oh-So-Temporary Golden Ages

September 5, 2010 | 2 comments
By: Dane Laverty
Those Oh-So-Temporary Golden Ages

I started teaching seminary three weeks ago. We’re off to a great start. I don’t have any goofballs in my class, so that helps. As I started preparing before the semester began, I tried to figure out how to present the Doctrine and Covenants in a way that could be compelling to high school... Read More »

Sunday School Lesson 35: Amos 3, 7-9; Joel 2-3

September 4, 2010 | no comments
By: Jim F.
Sunday School Lesson 35: Amos 3, 7-9; Joel 2-3

Note to newcomers: These are not lesson notes. They are notes–and questions–to help people study the lesson material. Of course, as such they may also be helpful for preparing... Read More »

Sunday School Lesson 34: Hosea 1-3; 11; 13-14

September 3, 2010 | no comments
By: Jim F.
Sunday School Lesson 34: Hosea 1-3; 11; 13-14

The book of Hosea is an excellent example of a book that we often find difficult because we don’t understand “the manner of prophesying among the Jews” (2 Nephi... Read More »


An LDS View on Science and Religion

September 3, 2010 | 33 comments
By: Dave Banack

Continuing the conversation begun in my earlier post (God and Science), let’s look at the Encyclopedia of Mormonism entry... Read More »

Conference Announcement: “Embracing the Law: A Scholarly Conference on Doctrine & Covenants 42″

September 2, 2010 | 2 comments
By: Nate Oman

Embracing the Law A scholarly conference on Doctrine and Covenants 42 September 10, 2010 • Free Admission Session 1 9:00 – 10:45... Read More »

Stop Forwarding Lies and Hate!

September 2, 2010 | 107 comments
By: Kent Larsen

It happened again. Another batch of forwarded emails from my family, filled with misinformation, outright lies and sometimes even... Read More »

The Limits of Orthodoxy

August 31, 2010 | 25 comments
By: Julie M. Smith

Apparently, you can’t say polygamy was not God’s will. But you can say that a male-only priesthood is... Read More »

God and Science

August 30, 2010 | 21 comments
By: Dave Banack

The conflict between science and religion is generally overstated. But it is certainly true that science is the matrix... Read More »

Sunday School Lesson 33: Jonah 1-4: Micah 2, 4-7

August 26, 2010 | no comments
By: Jim F.
Sunday School Lesson 33: Jonah 1-4: Micah 2, 4-7

This is another long set of study notes. I have adapted parts of them from a set of notes... Read More »

“War and Peace in Our Time: Mormon Perspectives” Proposal Deadline Sept. 1

August 25, 2010 | 3 comments
By: Ben Huff

I recently received an email asking “if the LDS Church has an official (or unofficial) Social Doctrine, similarly to... Read More »

Sunday School Lesson 32: Job

August 21, 2010 | no comments
By: Jim F.
Sunday School Lesson 32: Job

Word Biblical Commentary quotes this very nice poem from W. H. Auden, “Thomas Epilogises”:   Where Job squats awkwardly upon his... Read More »

Temples & Mosques & Zoning

August 18, 2010 | 202 comments
By: Kent Larsen
Temples & Mosques & Zoning

Although I grew up in the Washington D.C. suburbs when the Temple was being built, I don’t remember the... Read More »

You Want Justice, You Need Justice.

August 17, 2010 | no comments
By: Adam Greenwood

Here is a short theory of the atonement. Read More »

Myth and Ritual

August 16, 2010 | 2 comments
By: Dave Banack

Like some of you, I’ve been reading a book or two on the Old Testament, this year’s Sunday School... Read More »

Where Is Mormonism Headed?

August 11, 2010 | 18 comments
By: Dave Banack

That theme is addressed from many different angles in The Future of Mormonism series at Patheos. It might be... Read More »

The Masonic Element in Mormonism

August 10, 2010 | no comments
By: Adam Greenwood

On the sweetness of Mormon life. Read More »

Perceptions of Mormonism

August 9, 2010 | 72 comments
By: Dave Banack

The Deseret News posted an article (”Mormons need to work to increase favor“) summarizing remarks by Gary Lawrence at... Read More »

Farewell and Thanks from a Bad Blogger

August 7, 2010 | 7 comments
By: Steven Smith

As I mentioned in my first post, I was reluctant to be a guest blogger, mainly because I doubted... Read More »

Instruction as Worship

August 7, 2010 | 24 comments
By: Dane Laverty
Instruction as Worship

It’s no secret that we Mormons aren’t big on praise worship in our meetings. You won’t hear any “hallelujahs”... Read More »

Faith and Reason as Moral Ideals

August 6, 2010 | 12 comments
By: Ben Huff

The sense of many today that faith is antithetical to reason grows partly out of the Reformation and Enlightenment,... Read More »

Sunday School Lesson 31: Proverbs and Ecclesiastes

August 5, 2010 | no comments
By: Jim F.
Sunday School Lesson 31: Proverbs and Ecclesiastes

I laughed when I saw what this lesson covers, “only” slightly less than 16,000 words in Proverbs and slightly... Read More »

Mormonism within Christianity; Christianity within Mormonism

August 4, 2010 | 45 comments
By: Steven Smith

Every so often the question “Are Mormons Christians?” gets batted around; the question has probably grown tedious for many.... Read More »

Ripples in History

August 3, 2010 | 9 comments
By: Dave Banack

I recently finished Victor Davis Hanson’s Ripples of Battle (Doubleday, 2003), with the give-it-all-away subtitle How wars of the... Read More »

Antichrist to an Antichrist

August 2, 2010 | 26 comments
By: Dane Laverty
Antichrist to an Antichrist

I’m currently through the beginning of Nietzsche’s The Will to Power. I like what I’ve read, and I’ve identified... Read More »

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