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Bart Ehrman, Craig Evans, and the Burial of Jesus

    The prolific atheist-leaning agnostic New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, who teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recently published a book entitled How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee.   It has received quite a lot of attention, and has been heartily welcomed by religious [Read More...]

“Sharing the Gospel with the World”

    We agreed that the lesson (number 33 in the 2014 Gospel Doctrine manual) isn’t particularly well titled, but the scriptural texts under discussion — Jonah and Micah — are extraordinarily interesting in any case:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...   The participants in this, the 83rd (eighty-third) scripture roundtable posted by The Interpreter Foundation, were Ben [Read More...]

“On Dealing with Uncertainty”

    A very good 1979  talk from Bruce Hafen, who later went on to become a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy and who then served (until fairly recently) as the president of the St. George Temple:   https://www.lds.org/ensign/1979/08/on...    

“I know that my Redeemer liveth”

    John Gee, Cassandra Hedelius, Martin Tanner, and Richard Gwilliam discuss the Book of Job in this, the eighty-second (82nd) scripture roundtable posted by The Interpreter Foundation:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...   Their conversation is linked to Lesson 32 in the 2014 Gospel Doctrine lesson manual for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.   [Read More...]

“But what of those who never heard?”

      Today’s weekly column in Salt Lake City’s Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

“Happy is the Man that Findeth Wisdom”

    In the eighty-first (81st) scripture roundtable posted by The Interpreter Foundation, which has just gone up, Cassandra Hedelius, Daniel Peterson, and Stephen Smoot discuss Lesson 31 in the 2014 Gospel Doctrine manual of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a lesson that is focused upon the biblical books of Proverbs and [Read More...]

Making the late “FARMS Review” easily accessible

    I’m very pleased to announce that all thirty-nine (39) issues of the late FARMS Review — a stench in the nostrils of decent people everywhere — are now conveniently available on the website of Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library:   https://ojs.lib.byu.edu/spc/index.php...   The late Davis Bitton, professor of history at the [Read More...]

“Spiritual but not religious? Please stop boring me.”

    I enjoyed this short piece, brought to my attention by Seth Rogers:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lillian...    

Should the accreditation of Christian colleges be revoked?

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   I fear the smothering hegemony of imperialistic secularism much more than I fear whatever defects religiously-affiliated colleges may have.    

The Christians in Mosul

    Incidentally, the red circle in the photograph isn’t a misdrawn “smiley face.”  The circle surrounds the “isolated” form of the Arabic letter nun, equivalent to the English n, which stands, here, for Nasrani (= “Nazarene” or “Christian”):   http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2...