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LDS Newsroom
- Church Working With Oklahoma Officials to Provide Support in Wake of Tornadoes May 21, 2013
- Funeral Services for Frances J. Monson Announced May 20, 2013
- Frances J. Monson, Wife of President Thomas S. Monson, Passes Away May 17, 2013
- Elder Dallin H. Oaks Honored for Championing Religious Freedom May 16, 2013
- Mormonism in the News: Getting It Right| 15 May 2013 May 15, 2013
- Rendering of Meridian Idaho Mormon Temple Now Public May 15, 2013
- Mormon Delegation Encourages Religious Dialogue at International Conference May 14, 2013
- Mormons Around the World: Country Newsroom Websites |14 May 2013 May 14, 2013
- Mormons Around the World: Country Newsroom Websites | May 9 May 9, 2013
- Church Donates More Than 1 Million Pounds of Food to Top Hunger-Relief Organization May 9, 2013
Posts Tagged ‘ Mormon ’
Growing Up in Utah
I didn’t. But if you read “The Skeleton in Grandpa’s Barn” and Other Stories of Growing Up in Utah (Signature, 2008) you’ll get an informative glimpse of what it was like. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Notes from all over.
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Brigham Young in Zero G
Brother Jonathan Goff at the Selenian Boondocks blog has a great post on what we can learn about space expansion from the Mormon experience settling the West. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
FAIR One Ups The Tanners
Score one for FAIR. Last week, in Utah Lighthouse Ministry v. Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rejected an appeal by Sandra and Gerald Tanner’s anti-Mormon ministry over its claims of trademark infringement, cyber-squatting, and unfair competition that arose out of a parody website created by the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (FAIR). Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
The Mormons: Director’s Cut
Heads up for those in the D.C. area. Greg Prince, co-author of David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, hosts a great series of events at his house in Potomac, Maryland, the next of which is coming up on Sunday, June 8th. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Walking by Faith with Popper and Quine
A while ago I was having one of those oft repeated conversations about faith, doubt, and intellectual reconciliation. My thoughtful interlocutor asked, “Is there anything that you could learn that would cause you to abandon your beliefs?” The clear assumption of his question was that there was something distinctly fishy about a set of beliefs that cannot be falsified. It is an assumption worth thinking about. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
A Thomas Jefferson Education?
For the uninitiated, Thomas Jefferson Education (hereafter TJE) is a method of homeschooling–a method very popular among Mormons. 4 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Notes From All Over
The week in links. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Our Hero Discovers His Pelagian Taint
I picked up Alan Jacobs’ book Original Sin. Good stuff. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
T&S welcomes guest poster Wendy Ulrich
Wendy Ulrich, Ph.D., is a former president of the Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists, and the author of Forgiving Ourselves: Getting Back Up When We Let Ourselves Down, recently published by Deseret Book. She is the founder of Sixteen Stones Center for Growth in Alpine, Utah, offering seminar-retreats on topics such as spirituality, abundant life, loss, forgiveness, and other aspects of personal growth. She was a psychologist in private practice in Michigan for twenty years before moving to Montreal, Quebec to serve with her husband as mission president. They currently live in Utah. Welcome, Dr. Ulrich! We’re honored... Read more »
A Bastion of Mormonism
Being mildly depressed about blogging at the moment, I decided to go trolling for a “good news” story to post. Here it is, a story about SVU from the SL Trib: “A bastion of Mormonism in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.” Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Eurovision’s Mormon Moment
From the international annals of overachieving singing and dancing Mormons The Mormon moment for the Eurovision Song Contest came in 1984 Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Book Review: The Pictograph Murders, by P.G. Karamesines
Murder most foul, in the strange natural world of southern Utah. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Element Call for Student Submissions (July 15 deadline)
Element: The Journal of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology is publishing a special issue dedicated to student articles. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Revelation 1:1-3
So much for one post per chapter. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Interpretations: MSH at SVU
This past Friday and Saturday I attended a very enjoyable conference at Southern Virginia University, co-sponsored by Mormon Scholars in the Humanities and the Mormon Scholars Foundation. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Faith and Fame
Faith and fame aren’t always an easy mix, but Mormons who hit the big time seem to be able to hold it together most of the time. At least that’s the thrust of “How Mormons Deal With Fame” at the LDS Newsroom, discussing, among other names we all recognize, the 17-year-old phenom David Archuleta. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Food Storage Idea
There’s a really good conversation about food storage over at MMW and I want to throw one more idea out there, because it hadn’t occurred to me until recently that the best place to do my food storage buying was the most expensive grocery store in town. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Apostasy and the Dark Ages
Do these concepts have anything to do with each other? Apparently some Mormons think they do, hence Davis Bitton’s corrective essay “How Dark Were the Dark Ages?” (conveniently reposted at Meridian Magazine). 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Flour Gravy, Mother’s Day.
On the sweetness of Mormon life: Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
From the Archives: My Gifts (Whitsunday Reflections)
Today is Whitsunday on the Christian liturgical calendar, a holiday in honor of the Day of Pentecost. Not quite four years ago, in June of 2005, I wrote something about the gifts demonstrated on that day, and about those–decidedly less spetacular–gifts which I believe I have. I’m somewhat proud of it; I think it is one of the more honest things I’ve ever written about myself. The text is below; you might want to check out the comments on the original post as well. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Mother’s Day is Looming
And for thousands of Latter-day Saints who will be delivering a Mother’s Day talk tomorrow, it is looming large. Expectations are high and scriptural sources are limited. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Heimskringla and historicity
There’s a reasonable chance that all efforts to situate the Book of Mormon over the last 180 years, geographically, culturally, and chronologically, are based on the Nephite version of the Donation of Constantine. But first, let’s talk about Odin. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
IDTM
If one more Mormon tells me to see Expelled, I am going to scream. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Mormons and Reality Shows
Read and discuss. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
How Notions of Government Inform Sexual Morality
This is my impressionistic take on how ideas about government influence ideas about sexual morality. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Gertrud Specht
Gertrud Specht had been a searcher her whole life before she found what she was looking for 3 people like this post. Like Unlike Read more »
That Daguerreotype Again (2 of 2)
Chapters 9 and 10 of Millions Shall Know Brother Joseph Again deal with purported photographs of Joseph Smith, including the Scannel daguerreotype. Be the first to like. Like Unlike Read more »
Catholic parish registers belong to humanity
According to various news outlets the Catholic Church has ordered its dioceses to not allow Mormons access to parish registers any more. For decades, our Church has copied and preserved millions of pages of parish registers around the world, as part of the injunction to seek out ancestors and perform ordinances in their behalf. There are probably still millions of pages out there, uncopied. 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike Read more »
Conferences and Events
- American Society of Church History Annual Meeting
- American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
- Communal Studies Association Annual Meeting
- Society for the Scientific Study of Religion/Religious Research Association
- Western History Association Annual Conference
- Utah State Historical Society Annual Meeting
- Center for Studies on New Religions
- Mormon History Association
- European Mormon Studies Association Conference
- Sunstone Symposium