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186–187: Hugh Nibley—Part 2: Scholar and Defender of the Faith 26 Aug 2013 | 10:44 pm
These episodes (186 & 187) constitute the second of our three-part series on Hugh Nibley (1910–2005), focusing this time on Nibley as scholar of the ancient world and the ways he applied this scholars...
184–185: Hugh Nibley—Part 1: A Fascinating Life 22 Aug 2013 | 02:07 am
These episodes launch a three-part series on Hugh Nibley (1910–2005), a towering figure in twentieth-century Mormonism who every Latter-day Saint deserves to know better. Most often viewed as an intel...
182–183: Is Mormonism’s God Worthy of Worship? 17 Aug 2013 | 10:40 pm
Mormonism has a distinctive view of God that differs quite a bit from that of traditional theism. And though we as Latter-day Saints recognize and most often celebrate the differences, in our Sunday a...
181: Grieving (and Can We Do it Better?) 13 Jul 2013 | 04:31 am
The death of loved ones and other difficult transitions really shake us up, and it is very natural for us to want and need to grieve our losses. Unfortunately, we sometimes don’t take the time to full...
180: Mormon Missions Take to Facebook! 2 Jul 2013 | 03:56 am
On Sunday, June 23, 2013, LDS leaders announced changes to the LDS missionary program, with most of the new focus directed to decreasing door-to-door contacting, and instead shifting attention to conv...
178–179: Tolerance 18 Jun 2013 | 05:24 am
Tolerance is a tricky virtue. In a list of ways one might interact with others, it’s certainly better than active persecution but falls far short as an ideal way to engage people or ideas we don’t ful...
176–177: The Adam-God Doctrine: What? When? Still? 7 Jun 2013 | 02:08 am
When Brigham Young first taught in initial outlines of what is now known as the “Adam-God Doctrine” (or the “Adam-God Theory”—the preferred term by those who want to downplay its status within LDS doc...
174–175: The Chaplains on . . . Suffering 20 May 2013 | 11:47 am
When we meet someone who is suffering, whether physically or emotionally, we naturally want to be of service to them. Sometimes our fears overcome us, and we avoid opportunities we’re presented with t...
172–173: Proactive LDS Parenting 4 May 2013 | 09:57 am
Most Latter-day Saints who are negotiating a faith transition, including developing a new relationship with God and the church in which they were nurtured, naturally hope to create a smoother road for...
170–171: Toward Expanding and Improving LDS Discourse about Sexuality 23 Apr 2013 | 09:37 am
So often in Mormon discourse, the term “virtue” is treated almost exclusively as relating to sexual purity, chastity, and virginity, completely missing its much broader and wonderfully expansive meani...
