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What is “grace”, really? We know we are saved by grace (Ephesians 2:8; 2 Nephi 25:23). Of course, lots of people (including some Mormons) think Mormons don’t believe in salvation by grace. Read More
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Lesson 31: Proverbs and Ecclesiastes Read More
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Does God control who is Church President by ending life (using the “death card”)? Or does he control who is President by controlling the order in which Apostles are called? Of course, both can be true (or neither depending on your theological persuasion), but let’s examine these questions systematically. Read More
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Most summers for the last twenty-two years, I’ve come to Italy for a week or more Read More
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Lesson 30: 2 Chronicles 29-30; 32; 34 Read More
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“A faith that has never been doubted is not as valuable or authentic as a faith that has been doubted.” Read More
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A dear friend of mine recently wrote to me, confiding that she’s been coming to the slow and vertiginous realization that she’s never had a strong testimony of the gospel, despite a life of exemplary activity in and service to the Church. With her permission, I’ve shared my response to her letter below. Read More
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Are the rules of Mormonism constitutive or regulative? Read More
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There are two “religious” magazines that I like to read fairly regularly. Neither is Mormon. Read More
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This is a post about Mormonism and Leo Strauss. Read More
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I can think of at least three different ways in which one can read the scriptures. Read More
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What is the bloggernacle? Good question. People’s views are likely to differ, and the quest to define the nacle is bound to be an ongoing one. It’s a fun question, but for now I’m just going to point out a significant new post on the topic: DMI Dave has been around long enough to have a better grasp of the community definitional issues than just about anyone else, so when he weighs in on the topic, it makes sense to pay attention. The don’t-miss-it nacle post of the [week? most-recent-short-period-of-time?] is Dave’s “Defining the Bloggernacle.” Read More
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Simon, 5, loves this little boy. His family is a little bit too Conspicuous Consumption for me, but how can you deny a five-year-old his best friend? Which is why I’m spending an afternoon at his 500$ birthday party at the karate studio. Read More
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The common answer heard today in the Church is no. A variety of reasons are usually given: Read More
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On the whole, I am in favor of the smell of tobacco in church, but it is a tricky question. Read More
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A prior thread examined rationales for extending priesthood eligibility to women. This thread will examine the opposite question: If you believe that women should not receive priesthood eligibility, why not? Read More
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Some of our readers and participants have expressed a belief that eligibility for priesthood ought to be extended to women. I’m curious about the reasoning underlying different participants’ acceptance of this argument. Read More
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Lesson 29: 2 Kings 2, 5-6 Read More
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Over at BCC Taryn has an interesting post on the Book of Mormon and socialism. Her basic claim is that the Book of Mormon endorses socialism. At one level, I think that she is absolutely correct, on another level I think that the claim is vacuous. Read More
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“If you gave women the Priesthood and then took it away, would they be less happy than if they’d never gotten it to begin with?” Read More
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I always find it interesting to hear what people think of as being central and peripheral to Mormon experience. Take sex for example. Read More
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In the comments to Julie’s dialogue with Randy B. on the meaning of “preside” in Mormon discourse, she issued (and re-issued!) a challenge to any interested reader: find a statement from a 20th-century Church leader showing that our concept of presiding has teeth. Never one to pass up a challenge—particularly one that will allow me to both avoid unpacking my suitcases and escape the frustrations of potty-training my son, at least for a few minutes—I spent some time with my LDS Library 2006 CD-ROM this morning. Read More
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When I was a senior in college, I worked at Seagull Book and Tape, an LDS book and trinket store across the street from the LA Temple. (The pay was lousy, but working with books was fun. So it turned out to be a decent job.) I was amazed by all the stuff that Mormons buy just because it has some sort of Mormon reference or connection. Read More
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I like Michael’s post about seer stones. Read More
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Lesson 28: 1 Kings 17-19 Read More