Hatem, Jad. Postponing Heaven: The Three Nephites, the Bodhisattva, and the Mahdi. Translated by Jonathon Penny. Provo UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2015. BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute recently re-published a work by Lebanese … Continue reading →
Tim Malone was a long-time member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A Latter-day Saint who served as a member of the Stake High Council, went on a mission, and was married in the Temple. From all … Continue reading →
I am very happy to announce the 5th biennial Faith & Knowledge Conference to be held at the University of Virginia February 27-29, 2015. The CFP may be found here: www.faithandknowledge.org/ The first F&K conference, held in 2007 at Yale … Continue reading →
Matthew 7:7–11 (NRSV) “Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the … Continue reading →
In the 15th chapter of the Gospel of Luke Jesus relays a very simple, yet beautiful, parable: 4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the … Continue reading →
This year I have had the enlightening opportunity to attend three Mormon-themed conferences. Each conference afforded me the opportunity to meet with, and mingle, with Latter-day Saints of all stripes from traditional believers to those who have chosen to resign … Continue reading →
One of the Book of Mormon’s most distinctive features is its presentation of the “pride cycle” as a type of meta-narrative that describes how societies rise to prosperity through humility and righteousness, become convinced that this prosperity is the result … Continue reading →
My introduction to Mormon Studies came in graduate school. I am quite embarrassed to say that before this time I had not seriously read Mormon Studies and my impressions of Dialogue and Sunstone were, if anything, somewhat negative (How can … Continue reading →
Miller, Adam S. Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology. Draper: Greg Kofford Books, 2012. —— A comically involved, complicated invention, laboriously contrived to perform a simple operation. —“Rube Goldberg,” Webster’s New World Dictionary When one thinks of theology, rarely … Continue reading →