“Reconciliations and Reformulations”–Call for Papers

Hi Everyone ~ This Tuesday (12/2) will be my first weekly virtual reading / internet video event on BlogTV , where I will be coming to you live on video to discuss the book and answer your questions! Anyone can participate - either actively, by logging in and corresponding via Instant Message, or passively, by simply tuning in and watching, and these shows will be recorded for you to watch at your leisure if you missed it live. Now is the chance for you to email me with questions or topic... more

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Warning: Plot spoilers follow.   Tonight my girlfriend and I attended an advance screening of the forthcoming movie, Emma Smith: My Story. It was, to say the least, better than we had expected. I’m not a film critic, so I cannot critique the movie based on editing, music, camera angles, or even dialogue. However, none of these more aesthetic characteristics stuck out as being “bad” to me, despite being told before hand that the movie was still very rough. If I came into t... more

Justin’s recent post at Mormon Wasp describes the latest Jack Chick anti-Mormon comic book, The Enchanter. Chick’s comic contains a picture of Joseph Smith, dressed in full Nauvoo Legion attire, saying: “If the people let us alone, we will preach the gospel in peace . But if they come on us to molest us, we will establish our religion with the sword . We will trample down our enemies and make it one gore of blood …from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. I ... more

Recently released from Mercer University Press, Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies, edited by Donald W. Musser and David L. Paulsen, promises to be a tome of interest to both Mormons and Christians alike who are interested in dialogue. Martin Marty seems to think so. “When I agreed to read the manuscript and write the foreword,” Marty writes, “I don’t think I anticipated the scope, detail, and depth of this one. Now I pass it along to other... more