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Salt Press Merges with the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious...
On April 9, 2013 the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship announced that it had reached an agreement with the managing editors of independent academic Mormon publisher Salt Press to...
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Missionaries and Exorcisms
My mission experience, like most mission experiences, was memorable for a number of reasons. There were the usual spiritual experiences, friends made, people served, companions fought with, tracting...
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Missionaries and Murder
I recently wrote a post detailing my experiences casting out devils as a missionary. I mentioned in the beginning of that post some other strange or harrowing experiences I had undergone as a...
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The Word of Internet Wisdom
Revelation given at Provo, Utah, May 20, 2013. As a consequence of the early brethren incessantly using mobile devices for Facebooking and Bejeweling in their meetings, the Prophet was led to ponder on...
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Conference: Opposition in All Things: Perspectives on the Fall
The Mormon Theology Seminar will host a two-day conference, ”Opposition in All Things: Mormon Perspectives on the Fall,” at Utah Valley University on June 7-8, 2013. The conference is the culmination...
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Lose Yourself (Missionary Remix)
Lose Yourself (Missionary Remix) Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity For 18 months to 2 years it’s your life’s gratuity To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment By serving a mission...
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Highlights from Upcoming Papers of the 2013 Mormon History Association...
HIGHLIGHTS FROM UPCOMING PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MORMON HISTORY ASSOCIATION, 6-9 JUNE, DAVIS CONFERENCE CENTER, LAYTON, UTAH SALT LAKE CITY (Mormon Newswire) Mormon Newswire...
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Review: The Doctrine and Covenants Made Harder
The Doctrine and Covenants Made Harder: Scripture Study Questions Author: James E. Faulconer Paperback: 285 pages Publisher: Salt Press LLC (February 1, 2013) From the back cover: This is a book of...
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On the Crucial Necessity of a Faith Crisis
We’ve recently learned that Richard Bushman and Fiona and Terryl Givens will be presenting a series of seminars or lectures on managing doubt and crises of faith. In a way, we can see nearly all of...
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Men, Sex, and Modesty
The following are a few thoughts about discourses involving sex, modesty, and power in the LDS universe, obviously from a male perspective. That part is important. Here, I want to write as...
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Highlights from Upcoming Papers of the 2013 Sunstone Salt Lake Symposium
HIGHLIGHTS FROM UPCOMING PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE 2013 SUNSTONE SALT LAKE SYMPOSIUM, JULY 31-AUGUST 3, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH STUDENT UNION SALT LAKE CITY (Mormon Newswire) In the tradition of...
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Gospel Doctrine Lesson 27: “They Must Needs Be Chastened and Tried, Even as...
Notes, commentary, and questions for LDS Sunday School teachers using the ‘Doctrine & Covenants and Church History’ manual. Feel free to share your thoughts or ideas regarding the lesson in the...
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On Privileged Bodies: Men, the Weight of the World, and Their Stories
Originally posted at Letters from the Vineyard. When Hannah Rosin writes about the “end of men,” it’s not hard to use her literary assist to conclude that the writing is on the wall for how men...
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I’m More Than Just Another Pretty Stone
A Seer Stone [Cross Posted from Mormentum] Even though I retired quite a long time ago, I’ve gotten a lot of attention recently. I’ve heard it all before–you’re impossibly smooth,...
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Behold, Your Little Ones
[Cross-posted from Letters from the Vineyard] We set great wreaths of brightness on the graves of the passionate who required tribute of hot July flowers— for you, O brittle-hearted, we bring offering...
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On the CES Letter
A handful of people have asked me over the last few months about the infamous CES Letter, which is purportedly responsible for assisting thousands of people to leave the LDS Church. What do I think...
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4 Poems For Mourning
“This Wounded Geometry” What is this wounded geometry circumscribing the earth? This scarred ecology? This shattered geography? This grieving anthropology? This biology of barrenness, encircled by...
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Scrooge and Marley
The first film adaptation of A Christmas Carol was a 1901 British silent film entitled, Scrooge; or, Marley’s Ghost. The film’s director, Walter R. Booth, based the film largely on the playwright J.C....
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The Struggle for Goodness, Truth, and Belonging in a Haunted Age
Contents Part One: Ecclesial Secularism, New Atheism, and the Supposed Impossibility of Religious Moderate 1.1 Ecclesial Secularism 1.2 New Atheism 1.3 The Impossible...
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