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“Bishop Roulette” vs “One Size Fits All”

by Stephen C • February 10, 2022

“Leadership roulette” (or “bishop roulette”) is a common term thrown around when there is some good or bad outcome that depends on the contingencies of who happens to be your local leader. This particular complaint is often aimed at some perceived…

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General Conference, Latter-day Saint Thought, Women in the Church

Studying the Words of The Relief Society Presidency

by Chad Nielsen • February 9, 2022

If the 5-year cycle for Relief Society General Presidencies that has been followed for 20 years holds true, the current Relief Society Presidency is likely to be released at this upcoming general conference.  With that in mind, I recently decided…

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News and Politics

Options for BYU faculty

by Jonathan Green • February 7, 2022

Over at BCC, John S. has a post that is, overall, not very helpful.

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News and Politics

Why I am Not An Intellectual

by Stephen C • February 5, 2022

The American philosopher Richard Rorty recollected that when he was a teenager he dreamed of being able to read all the great works in his local library and arrive at some grand synthesis of truth from all the wisdom contained…

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News and Politics

Big Science Questions and the Gospel, Part V: Population Genetics

by Stephen C • February 2, 2022

Population genetics is an exciting, cutting edge area of research. In the past we had a fairly simplistic picture of our deep history, with humans migrating out of Africa and then sequentially expanding from continent to continent. However, occasional findings…

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Church History, Essential Texts in Mormon Studies, Latter-day Saint Thought

Important Documents from Latter-day Saint History

by Chad Nielsen • February 1, 2022

I’ve always had the idea running in the back of my mind to compile a list of the most important documents across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that are not in the scriptures nor…

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News and Politics

The Church’s Position on Sexuality

by Stephen C • January 29, 2022

I’ve noticed a not-insignificant number of members, both orthodox and heterodox, assume that the Church’s position on human sexuality is a “just because the prophet said so” issue, and aren’t aware of any well thought out defenses of the Church’s…

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News and Politics

Big Science Questions and the Gospel, Part IV: Quantum Mechanics

by Stephen C • January 27, 2022

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense. Basically, small particles act differently depending on whether they are being watched, either by a conscious human being or a detector machine (even if the detector is turned on after it has acted). I’m…

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Book Reviews, Mormon Review

Let’s Talk about the Book of Abraham–a Review

by Chad Nielsen • January 25, 2022

Kerry Muhlstein’s Let’s Talk about the Book of Abraham Is the latest entry in a series that Deseret Book has been publishing to address controversial or touchy topics in the Church.  Based on my experience with Brittany Chapman Nash’s Let’s…

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News and Politics

Latter-day Saints for Life

by Stephen C • January 23, 2022

My family and I recently participated in the March for Life, the big annual pro-life march in DC, so I’ve been thinking about a variety of things related to that  (in no particular order). To what extent should you use…

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News and Politics

My Top Religious Themed Movies, Ranked

by Stephen C • January 21, 2022

A well done religious-themed movie can be a powerful spiritual experience. Unfortunately, the movie industry generally either shies away from religious themes (unless to deride them), or they fit in the Christian cinema niche that produces simple starches for the…

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Church History, Temples

Sextuple Endowment Rooms: What Does it Mean?

by Chad Nielsen • January 20, 2022

“In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures,” stated Frank Gehry—an important contemporary architect. One of the more interesting episodes in the treatment of historic Utah structures has been the decision to tear both the…

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News and Politics

Big Science Questions and the Gospel, Part III: The Creation of Life

by Stephen C • January 19, 2022

Like most Latter-day Saints, my testimony of the Church is based more on the numinous than the intellectual. However, I still remember the moment when, ruminating on my AP biology class while taking a break during my summer lifeguarding job,…

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Church History, Temples

Does This Design Offend You?

by Chad Nielsen • January 18, 2022

It has been our privilege, as guided by the whisperings of thy Spirit, to build unto thee this temple, which we now present unto thee as another of thy holy houses. … We humbly pray that thou wilt accept this…

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News and Politics

Why Latter-day Saints (Or Anyone Else) Should Not Feel Bad about Having Kids on Government Assistance

by Stephen C • January 15, 2022

When I was in graduate school with a young family my wife and I went on government assistance. We didn’t have a car so I had to fill our stroller up with groceries every third day. Of course, one particularly…

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From the Desk Co-posts

Translating the Kinderhook Plates

by Chad Nielsen • January 13, 2022

The Kinderhook plates provide an interesting incident in Church History that provide an interesting test case for how Joseph Smith approached translation.  What are these plates?  What can we learn about Joseph Smith from the incident?  Well, Mark Ashurst-McGee and…

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General Doctrine, Scriptures

The Contradictory Commands, Part 3: A Tale of Two Records

by Chad Nielsen • January 11, 2022

In part 1 of this series discussing the contradictory commands given to Adam and Eve to not partake of the forbidden fruit but to also have children, I discussed the possibility that they would have been resolved in time, but…

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News and Politics

What Happens If All the Apostles Pass Away?

by Stephen C • January 9, 2022

Many countries have continuity of government plans for what to do if the leadership suddenly dies in some sort of a catastrophe. The United States famously has a “designated survivor” that is in a secure location during the State of…

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News and Politics

Big Science Questions and the Gospel, Part II: Consciousness and the Soul

by Stephen C • January 6, 2022

Any reasonably intelligent person can understand the principles involved in the search for extraterrestrial life issue that I addressed in my last science post. However, the issue of consciousness is fundamentally mind-wracking and forces us to question some of our…

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General Doctrine, Scriptures

The Contradictory Commands, Part 2: The Higher Law

by Chad Nielsen • January 4, 2022

Part 1 of this series discussed the contradictory commands given to Adam and Eve to not partake of the forbidden fruit but to also have children, I discussed the possibility that they would have been resolved in time, but they…

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News and Politics

Reproductive Trends in the Church and General Authority Family Size

by Stephen C • December 31, 2021

Years ago I had fantasies of writing a book on the history of Latter-day Saint fertility. That dream has been put on hold, probably until after my kids are out of the house (and there’s more data), but before I…

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Come Follow Me Currculum, General Doctrine, Scriptures

The Contradictory Commands, Part 1: Isn’t It About … Time?

by Chad Nielsen • December 29, 2021

One Sunday while I was on my mission, I was asked to teach the Gospel Principles class.  The class was very small (just the missionaries and one part member family we’d been teaching), and the subject was the Fall of…

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News and Politics

The Gospel and Cutting Edge Science, Part I: The Other Children of God

by Stephen C • December 26, 2021

“John saw curious looking beasts in heaven, he saw every creature that was in heaven, all the beasts, fowls, & fish in heaven, actually there, giving glory to God. I suppose John saw beings there, that had been saved from…

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Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum, Music and Poetry

“As we commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ”

by Chad Nielsen • December 22, 2021

Of all the Christmas carols in the English hymnbook, the one with the longest association with the Church’s hymnals is “Joy to the World.”[1]  It’s probably fitting, then, that the “Come, Follow Me” materials for this week reference it.  The…

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News and Politics

Polygamy and “Extra Women”

by Stephen C • December 20, 2021

The idea that polygamy helped provide spouses for a surplus of women who had joined the Church is an old one, as is its purported refutation. However, the refutations I read were based on Census data and didn’t seem super…

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From the Desk Co-posts, Latter-day Saint Thought, News and Politics

Peace and Zion

by Chad Nielsen • December 16, 2021

For me, one of the most beautiful concepts in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the idea of Zion. Yet, to achieve that ideal, we are going to have to think and act radically differently than we…

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Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum

“The long-promised day has come”

by Chad Nielsen • December 14, 2021

Official Declaration 1 has some supplementary materials included in the Doctrine and Covenants in the form of three excerpts from different addresses where he explained the reasoning for the change.  I’ve often mused on the idea of what would an…

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News and Politics

Vaccine Hesitancy (or the Lack Thereof) among Members

by Stephen C • December 13, 2021

One of the stereotypes conservative US members have to deal with is the idea that they click their heels and salute every time the Church makes a political statement, when anybody who’s had deep political discussions with them understands that…

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Church History, Come Follow Me Currculum, General Doctrine

“All that God has revealed, all that he does now reveal, and … that he will yet reveal”

by Chad Nielsen • December 12, 2021

A few years ago, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf shared the following thoughts in general priesthood session: Sometimes we think of the Restoration of the gospel as something that is complete, already behind us—Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, he…

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Mormon Studies

Making Sense of Prophecies (6): Concluding Thoughts

by Jonathan Green • December 10, 2021

The question “Did Samuel Lutz really write this” is ultimately not as useful as the question of how the prophecy of “Lutius Gratiano” came about, and what function it served for those who kept it in circulation.

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