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December 7, 2015
“Joseph Smith’s Polygamy: Toward a Better Understanding”
A transcript from 2015′s annual FairMormon conference that some might find of interest or use: http://www.fairmormon.org/perspective...
December 6, 2015
“O Holy Night”
Today’s installment in the “Social” component of the “A Savior is Born” campaign features a performance by Tiffany Alvord: https://www.mormon.org/christmas/tiff...
New Testament 322
John 15:18-25 Compare Matthew 10:24-25; Luke 6:40; John 13:16 Being hated for your religious beliefs and practices doesn’t prove them correct. If that were the case, ISIS and the Westboro Baptist Church would have good claims to truth and legitimacy. But, overall, if the world at large loves your religious beliefs and [Read More...]
Music of Christmas 6
In this clip, Chanticleer performs what I, at least, consider to be one of the most achingly, exquisitely beautiful pieces of music ever composed, Franz Biebl’s 1964 setting of “Ave Maria”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVyCJ... V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariæ. R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto. Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu [Read More...]
New Testament 321
John 15:9-17 Once again, Jesus doesn’t teach salvation by faith alone, but commands his disciples to love — and plainly indicates, by mentioning the most humanly demanding of all acts (surrendering one’s life for something/someone else), that such love is expressed by action. He then proceeds to speak of his disciples’ [Read More...]
December 5, 2015
“Intact, packed Etruscan tomb found”
Potentially one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent history: http://news.discovery.com/history/arc...
“Does Jeremiah 23:24 pose problems for LDS theology?”
Robert Boylan, the Interpreter Foundation’s very impressive man in Ireland, looks at an Old Testament passage that has sometimes been deployed as a weapon against Mormonism: http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.com
A Thought for the Sabbath
“Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.” Walter Brueggemann
New Testament 320
John 15:1-8 The imagery, in this passage, of vine and branches is inescapably reminiscent of Jacob 5. For a (large) anthology of very good articles on that astonishing chapter, see The Allegory of the Olive Tree: The Olive, the Bible, and Jacob 5 (1994)
“Does Helaman 13-16 plagiarize ‘View of the Hebrews’?”
A nice bit of analysis from Stephen Smoot: http://www.plonialmonimormon.com/2015...
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