Belonging
March 26, 2018[…] because I find this sentiment blasphemous and partly because I ironically find myself somehow envying the simplistic world in which people who believe such things live. To think that God would bless us for […]
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Temporal Love: Singing the Song of Songs
March 26, 2018[…] after the rejection at the door. Throughout the poem these two adore one another and the sensuous world in which they find themselves. Throughout the poem they take turns as pursuer; longing leads to […]
Ordaining Women and the Transformation from Sect to Denomination
March 26, 2018Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 61–64 Over the past forty years the top leadership of the Community of Christ church (until recently the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ o f Latter -Day Saints) has gone […]
Antidote for Solitude: The Life of Bonnie Bobet
March 23, 2018[…] volunteered at homeless shelters and had graduate-school pro jects that would save the whales or maybe the world. We stayed friends with those who gave up on the Church as too repressive, provincial, non-intellectual, […]
Garden Tomb
March 22, 2018[…] says, ‘Man, everybody at BYU’s a hypocrite. They think they’re more righteous than the rest of the world. They sit there and read and memorize these obscure Church doctrines and ignore what’s really going […]
By Any Standard, A Remarkable Book | Richard Lyman Bushman, with the assistance of Jed Woodworth, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
March 21, 2018[…] remarkable book. Sixty years ago Knopf published Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History, a biography of the Mormon prophet by a disaffected Mormon who, according to her own biographer, had already decided before […]
Writing: An Act of Responsibility
March 20, 2018[…] your heart and make you feel alive all over again. You believe in literature with a soul— the book that makes you think, that makes you feel as though you’ve been somewhere and experienced […]
In The Nephite Courtroom | John W. Welch, The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon
March 18, 2018John W. Welch’s CV is enough to trigger fatigue in even the most prolific of scholars. As founding director of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS), Welch introduced a new generation […]
Belonging (and Believing) as LDS Scholars of Religion
March 18, 2018More than half a century ago, sociologist Thomas O’Dea said the following about the university student who is a Latter-day Saint: “He has been taught by the Mormon faith to seek knowledge and to […]
Hermeneutic Adventures in Home Teaching: Mary and Richard Rorty
March 16, 2018When philosopher Alastair MacIntyre came striding into my Vanderbilt University office brandishing the New York Times in October of 1985, I knew something was up. “Congratulations,” he said, “your church has just entered its […]