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And on sale at a bookstore near you, if you live in Utah, or at Amazon, if you don’t. Keepapitchinin provides excellent commentary. The LDS Newsroom has posted an article giving additional details. It starts out: The inaugural volume of the much-anticipated Joseph Smith Papers, released today, brings to light a project that has been…

A little bit, anyway: An online interview I did with a Deseret News journalist is featured in this week’s Bloggernacle Back Bench column at the Mormon Times. And a special welcome to any new visitors who followed links from the article here to the new Beliefnet site. There is also a Mormonism page that collects…

At LDS Science Review, a call to update the 1909 First Presidency statement “The Origin of Man” during its centennial year of 2009. That seems like a fine idea, although any update would require consensus among senior LDS leaders on a new statement and I doubt that will happen. Maybe in 2109.

At Get Religion, a short post on the views of novelist Marilynne Robinson. She is the rare mainstream novelist who continues to incorporate serious religious chraracters into her stories. Her comment on the current rhetorical battle between science and religion: “The debate seems to be between a naive understanding of religion and a naive understanding…

At Summa Theologica, a real treat: discussion of and links to the video of a presentation by Dr. Craig Blomberg relating how he came to collaborate with Dr. Steven Robinson of BYU in their interfaith dialogue book How Wide the Divide? [Blomberg presented Evangelical positions; Robinson presented LDS positions; and they jointly authored sections presenting…

While in Salt Lake City this afternoon, I managed to fit in a visit to Temple Square for a couple of hours. It’s always fun to visit the center place of Mormonism (which is a rather different category than “sacred ground” or “holy site”). I browsed through the South Visitors Center and its exhibits showing…

Funny what post-election behavior reveals about people. Republicans who lost the presidential race are quietly supporting a smooth transition of power to the incoming Obama administration; Prop 8 opponents are busy organizing angry marches and targeting Mormons for retribution, using misguided rights talk to justify this unfortunate response. A National Review Online piece, “Legislating Immorality,”…

We’re here in Utah for Thanksgiving. I was part of the group shopping expedition to Salt Lake today. The parking lots were full and there were people in the stores. I managed to suppress the urge to buy while browsing at Deseret Book, but made a significant contribution to the state’s consumer spending at Costco.…

We missed the deer but got the turkey. I’m now basking in that pleasant two-hour lull between dinner and pie, with nothing particularly clever to add about this uniquely American family holiday. If you’re looking for clever, here are a few links to brighten up your day: “For Thanksgiving: My Saints Don’t Just Go Marching In,” at…

Gary Lawrence thinks so, as related in an SL Trib piece. He’s the author of a new book, How Americans View Mormonism: Seven Steps to Improve Our Image. Lawrence, a pollster, sampled a thousand people. Here’s the bad news: Forty-three percent said the church treated women as second-class citizens, 39 percent said it used pressure tactics,…
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