Index of Selected Posts

This index page displays links to selected DMI blog posts displayed by category. Several "greatest hits" lists in the right sidebar display some of my better posts by year rather than by category. The navigation bar just above this text provides links to additional resources.

The Bible

• Scriptural Transmission: Adding or Taking Away?
• The Ethical Jesus
• Armstrong on the Emergence of Torah and Scripture
• The Apocalyptic Jesus
• Different Views of Inerrancy
• Bart Ehrman on Contradictions in the Bible
• Hebrews and Authorship
• Biblical Cosmology
• Misquoting Jesus
• Reading the New Testament, Part 1
• More on Secret Mark
• The Documentary Hypothesis, Part 2
• The Documentary Hypothesis, Part 1
• The Secret Gospel of Mark
• English Bibles
• Biblical Literary Types

Blogs and Blogging

• Young Mormon Scholars, Bloggers, and Readers
• Anonymity as Virtue or Vice
• Blogging and the Decline of Authority
• Mormons Encouraged to Use New Media
• Blogger Exed
• Internet Mormonism: Threat or Opportunity?
• Defining the Bloggernacle
• What I Have Learned as a Mormon Blogger
• Blogs as an Open Forum
• Legal Guide for Bloggers
• Blogs, Magazines, and Journals
• Efficient Blogging: The Three-Paragraph System
• Blogging as Public Discourse

Christianity

• Prophets in America
• Finding Christian Heretics in Strange Places
• Christianity and Equality
• A Short History of the Megachurch, and Why There Aren't Any Mormon Megachurches
• Christianity by Continent
• Things Evangelicals Don't Like To Talk About
• Getting to Know Evangelicals
• How To Be A Good Anti-Mormon
• Pope on Faith and Doubt
• Modern Theology in One Easy Lesson
• Cities of God: How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
• Evangelical Cults of Personality
• The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus
• The Judas You Never Knew
• The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition
• Faith and Reason
• Understanding Baptists
• Kung on Modernity
• Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
• Masonic Religion
• The Gospel of Thomas
• The Evangelical Mind
• Modern Fundamentalism, Part 2
• Calvin the Modernist
• Faith, Evidence, and Rationality
• In the Footsteps of John Wesley

Evolution and Science

• Theology in the Wake of Evolution
• Teaching Evolution
• Religion as a Learning Community
• The Undeluded Believer
• Mormons and Science
• Augustine Contra Fundamentalism
• God's Universe
• A Scientist, Two Popes, and a Prophet
• The Selfish Meme
• The Deseret News on Evolution

Interfaith

• The Possibility of Joseph Smith
• Nope, Not a Cult
• Mormon Scripture
• The Mormon Trinity
• Stendahl's Three Rules of Religious Understanding

Philosophy and Theology

• The Problem of Evil, or the Great Plan of Misery
• Modernism and the Mormon Intellectual
• I've Seen All Good People
• Schleiermacher: Confronting Modernity
• Theology and Conversation
• Modern Responses to the Problem of Evil
• Why We Suffer: The Problem of Evil
• Religious Pragmatism
• The Lord of the Rings and Philosphy
• Metaphysics and Mormonism
• Evolutionary Psychology
• Wanted: A Few Good Nihilists
• Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
• The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery
• A Very Brief History of Philosophy
• The Making of a Philospher
• Faking It, Round Two and Round One
• The Perfect Storm: Sooner or Later, We All Go Down With the Ship
• Critic Unlimited: Bloom on Hamlet
• Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
• Madness: A Brief History

LDS Apologetics

• Translation and Apologetics
• FAIR Combats New Oubreak of Folk Doctrine
• The New Mormon Apologetics
• Generations
• By the Hand of Mormon
• Trends in Apologetics
• FARMS and Authorship

LDS Books

Just browse the left sidebar or review the posts in the LDS Books category.

LDS Culture

Good Thoughts on Teaching Sunday School Calling All Introverts
• Scriptural Skills: What Are They and Can They Be Taught?
• We're All Middle-Way Mormons
• Life on the Fringe
• New Primary Lesson Needed: Not Going to Church
• A Statistical Portrait of Mormons
• God and Robots
• Is Mormonism a World Religion?
• Contrasting Views of Mormonism
• Upbeat Reflections on BYU
• Mormonism as a Symbol Whose Meaning Is Changing
• The Puzzling Mormon Gender Gap
• The Mormon Sort
• Being Orthodox in the Mormon World
• The Mormon Community
• So-Called Stages of Faith
• A Puzzle for Mormon Feminists
• Dutcher's Long and Winding Road
• 3:10 to Salt Lake City
• Faith and Fame
• An Ethics of LDS Teaching
• Gladys Knight and Mormon Music
• Claudia Bushman on Mormon Women
• Friends in Strange Places: Harold Bloom
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Former Mormon
• Spiritual Crocodiles 2.0
• Telling Stories: More on Folklore
• Searching for God in Hollywood
• Mormon Symbols
• Americanized Mormonism
• Jan Shipps: Stranger in a Strange Land
• Books for LDS Missionaries
• The Mormon Laundry List
• Postmodern Mormonism, Take Two
• Postmodern Mormonism?
• Church in Smallville
• The King's English, Part 2
• The King's English
• Defining "Anti-Mormon"
• The Plight of the Smart LDS Woman
• Correlation: Blessing or Curse?
• Southerton Exits
• Excommunication: Policy versus Practice
• All About Excommunication
• Deep Mormon Bench
• Conservatives and Liberals in Religion
• How to Make Friends and Influence Christians
• Permissible Dissent
• Gender Roles
• Mormon Establishment of Religion in Utah? Part 1 | Part 2
• Palmer Endgame: A Draw?
• LDS Revenues and Assets
• Where's All That Tithing Money Going?
• Liahona Dreams
• What Did Joseph Know About the Nephites?
• Don't Believe Everything You Hear: On Not Disseminating Private Notes
• Chiasmus, and Other Clever Tricks
• Unwritten Rules
• A Man Named Zelph
• A Curriculum Experiment: What's in the Priesthood Manual
• Kierkegaard and Mormonism
• Jacob Hamblin's House and Wives
• Gardens and Testimony
• One Thing I Like About the Church
• Mormon Exhorters

LDS Doctrine

• You Make the Call: What Is an Unorthodox Mormon?
• Do We Need A Fifth Mission?
• Terry Eagleton on Two Kinds of Faith
• AWOL: The Threefold Mission of the Church
• The Meanings of Zion
• Reason and Revelation in Mormonism
• Mormonism, Fundamentalism, and Absolute Truth
• Against Literalism and Inerrancy
• Mormons and Restorationists
• Quakers, Shakers, and Mormons
• The Mormon Trinity
• Essential Gender Differences
• Myths for the Modern World
• Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy, Ch. 3-5
• Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy, Ch. 1-2
• Kent P. Jackson on Faith and Scholarship
• Higher Criticism and Mormonism
• McMurrin on Evil
• Good Exmos, When They Die, Go To Colorado
• Pondering Proving Contraries
• All About Excommunication
• Saving Brother Ryan
• Stupid Things
• Reformed Mormonism
• Mormon Testimony
• Brigham Young on Science and Theology

LDS History

• Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, a People of Promise, Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
• Reflections on the Mormon Trail
• Mountain Meadows: A Thin Line Between Good and Evil
• Brigham Young and the West, Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
• Pioneers and Indians in Utah Valley
• President Hinckley and Mormon Memory
• The Devilish Details of Inoculation
• Missing Essentials
• A Mormon Narrative for the 21st Century
• Biographies of a New World Man
• The Utah War: Nine Conclusions
• The Utah War | More on the Utah War
• Joseph in the Land of Lincoln
• Welcomed Into Zion
• A Sense of Mormon Community
• The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
• Three Takes on Mormon History
• Going West With the Mormons
• The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
• Between the Testaments: From Malachi to Matthew
• An Approach to Religious History
• Looking Back on the McKay Era
• A Spectre Haunting Mormonism
• Faithful History
• Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage
• James Strang: The Man Who Would Be King
• Mormon Militarism?
• Rolled That Stone (Rough Stone Rolling)
• Bushman on Joseph's Three Biggest Accomplishments
• Adventures of a Church Historian
• City on a Hill and Mormon Zion
• Bushman on Mormon History
• Mormon Cities
• Our Man Paul (on Paul H. Dunn)
• The Prophet Puzzle, Part 1 | Part 2
• Knowing Mormon History
• Brigham Young in England
• Dangerous History: Exploring the Role of Mormon Women
• A Joseph for the 21st Century
• Online Biographies of Joseph Smith
• Becoming the American Religion
• Ten Reasons to Study LDS History
• Brigham Young: American Moses
• A Visit to Mountain Meadows
• Emma Smith: Mormon Enigma, Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

LDS Scriptures

• A Very Short Introduction to the Book of Mormon
• The Keystone Metaphor
• Millet on Book of Mormon Historicity
• Nephite DNA
• The Shadow of Abraham
• Punctuation Matters
• Descendants of Lehi
• Alma 1 - The Nephite State Church
• Tolkien, Depth, and the Book of Mormon
• The Limits of "Most Correct"

Books and Other Stuff

• Excerpts and comments on interviews from the PBS show
  "The Mormons": Jeffrey R. Holland | Marlin K. Jensen | Gregory Prince
• The New Atheism
• Curing Religious Illiteracy
• American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
• The Churching of America: Our Religious Economy
Modern Fundamentalism, Part 1
• Modern Fundamentalism, Part 2
• History and Identity
• Synchronicity, Prayer, and Meteors
• Church and State
• On Politics and the English Language
• Orwell's Encounter With Mormonism
• A Word From Grant Palmer
• FARMS Through the Years
• The Insider: Prying Into Palmer
• States and Nations: 20th Century Conflict
• Facing East: A Native History of Early America
• Civilization: A New History of the Western World
• The End of Faith: A Tree Died for This?
• Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
• A War Like No Other: The Peloponnesian War
• A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
• The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Modern Temple Worship
• The Sociopath Next Door
• Thomas Jefferson: Our New World Man
• At Sea With Jack London
• A Tough Year in Massachusetts: The Salem Witch Trials
• Roads to Modernity
• The Twilight of Disbelief: The Rise and Fall of Atheism
• Reading Beowulf
• Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
• Dickens on the Mormons
• England Calling: Writings in Honor of Eugene England
• Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
• Harold Bloom on Mormonism

True to the Faith posts

• A is for Agency
• B is for Body Piercing
• C is for the Cross
• D is for Divorce
• E is for Exaltation
• F is for the Family

This page is presently updated through: January 10, 2010.