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April 17, 2018[…] therefore threatened—her stake president’s framework. Likewise, her stake president failed to fit the framework she and I share, which we felt to be more elastic than his. This exercise in empathy, simplistic as it […]
[…] therefore threatened—her stake president’s framework. Likewise, her stake president failed to fit the framework she and I share, which we felt to be more elastic than his. This exercise in empathy, simplistic as it […]
[…] of the universe, perhaps not even of the Mormon universe, but that we had something worthwhile to share. It was a good idea whose time never came. We were much too busy to stop […]
[…] this particular physicality is necessary to our eternal way of being. I also believe that the natural world matters in ways beyond just providing a source of the raw material we need to grind […]
[…] was exactly the right wrong word. The Book of Mormon, the musical, is a very public, late- breaking initiation for the church whose ranks I’d joined a dozen years before that experience. And, like […]
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[…] of the phenomenon of post-Manifesto polygamy for the first time. To get up to speed one can read, for example, Quinn, Hardy and Hales, but I would like to point folks to a more […]
[…] way Spencer challenges long-standing individualist interpretations of Paul’s teachings. Spencer demonstrates that salvation is a communal endeavor in Paul’s world, as in Joseph Smith’s. Spencer uses some of the best Pauline scholarship on offer today and […]
[…] he just wrote about the Bible. It’s called The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It. I think a lot of Mormons could really benefit from Enns’s experience.
[…] succeed Kristine Haglund when her term as editor ends December 31, 2015. Petersen has taught courses in English and religious and Mormon studies at Utah Valley University since 1995, receiving a Faculty Excellence Award […]