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For more than forty years, I’ve been an enthusiastic proponent of Mormon parallel and environmental studies. Throughout this long period, I’ve listened to equally enthusiastic friends expand or exult over the inferred Dartmouth connection. Often, I feel this is exaggerated, or at least too narrow in...

Yes, a most impressive scrutiny of simplistically-bordered slots and categories painted by-the-numbers (almost as if to rush the patient out of the examination room in order to get on to the next client).

Thank you for this.

Salvete's suggestion of . . . " THE PEER REVIEW " . . . grabbed me instantly. I think it carries a perfect blend of urbane dignity, tongue-in-cheek irony, and lightly self-effacing humor, all rolled into one. I also believe that people of all stripes - friends or foes to the podcast - would remember...

Fun! This got me curious, so I ran to Mormon Parallels to check. To my embarrassment, most of the instances there were my own personal usage in the commentaries (including my calling Dan Vogel “choice friend material,” which is true, however corny). However, there were certainly early non-Mormon ins...

I wonder if Joseph Smith really thought in terms of seven when dictating Alma 11. I say this because I think apologists sometimes seek more elegance than was originally conceived in latter-day scripture (rather like in English literature courses where we analyzed certain writings to death). Without ...

Thank you for a well-needed chuckle, Dr Moore!

I served my mission in France (1967-1970) where lots of rabbit - and horse meat - was consumed. And yes, I believe there is some difference between the two.

Thanks for your question, Malkie. Hopefully, my previous post clarifies what I was trying to say in that paragraph from the Macpherson entry: 1) I don’t think it is possible to wrestle issues of faith very effectively using history. But 2), the claims and approaches of religious apologetics are quit...

First, thanks to everyone for this unaccustomed attention, and for so many kind words. What I’ve tried to say, maybe awkwardly, is that you can’t fight faith - probably shouldn’t - but on the other hand, a lot of apologetic thought and strategy is built on a foundation of sand that deserves to crumb...

Fence Sitter: “Since it is not possible for a single person to actually know all those things, apologist are left trying to explain how Rick could have known about all these references from 200 years ago. It's not like he actually lived at that time where he could have simply picked them up from the...

Nearly a century before Joseph Smith, we have a striking example of religious-like devotion to a fabricated epic narrative, in the supposedly rescued, proto-Scottish Ossian poems invented by James Macpherson. These exerted major influence upon European and American literature. What I find relevant t...