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Miller Eccles Study Group – Texas Edition: Neylan McBaine & the Hidden Beauty...
At the end of Roger Scruton’s controversial documentary Why Beauty Matters, the British philosopher arranges a performance of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in the St. Pancras railway station. The...
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Miller Eccles Study Group – Texas Edition: Julie Smith and Reading the New...
This is how I spend most of Sunday School. I used to have a ritual headache every Sunday I didn’t have to work. I used to think it was due to hunger based on weird church hours that cut into lunch. Or...
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Family Breakdown, the Welfare State, and the Family Proclamation: An...
Laura Compton at Rational Faiths has an enlightening and informative post on the origins of the Family Proclamation. She effectively demonstrates that the controversy surrounding Baehr v. Lewin–the...
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Learning to Adapt: Review of Steven Peck’s ‘Evolving Faith’
Review of Steven Peck, Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist (Provo: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, BYU, 2015). The ultimate purpose of the work of this God may never...
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“They Call Me the Working Man”: Hints of a Mormon Theology of Work
Our fearless leader Christopher Smith recently shared an insightful bit from his forthcoming dissertation on his Facebook wall. The paragraph in part describes the use of Edenic imagery by Mormon...
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The House Adam Built: Review of ‘Future Mormon’
Review of Adam S. Miller, Future Mormons: Essays in Mormon Theology (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2016). A couple weeks ago, I dropped in on another ward’s Gospel Doctrine class as I was making...
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Co-Creators With God: A Review of “Writing Ourselves”
Review of Jack Harrell, Writing Ourselves: Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2016). My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the...
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The Vision of All: A Review
Review of Joseph M. Spencer, The Vision of All: Twenty-Five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2016). In his introduction to the Book of Isaiah a couple years...
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A Colorful God: Review of ‘The Garden of Enid’
Review of Scott Hales, The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Part One (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2016). When I was still in elementary school, I used to remove the “funnies”...
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Embrace the Weirdness: Review of ‘The Garden of Enid, Part 2’
Review of Scott Hales, The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Part Two (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2017). I often feel like a fraud when it comes to the world of Marvel, DC,...
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