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What are the chances that a full financial accounting will be given at the April Conference? I don't know. They usually tend to wax poetical when speaking of these matters. I believe that Hinckley would have said "We have enough for a rainy day." If given the opportunity, I imagine that Maxwell (wh...

...McBaine accurately portrays the aversion to polygamy, but she could have spent more time describing why and how Latter-day Saint women found polygamy empowering.... "empowering"? Is this the the new apologetic? :roll: :roll: it's much more likely the author read dozens and dozens of journal entr...

I wonder if the brethren have conducted any internal studies on how effective/ineffective Dr. P, Midgley, et al's brand of mopologetics really was/is? In my personal case, their empty responses sealed my decision to leave. The attack style doesn't work and is slowly being phased out. I have no doub...

by the way, at Sic et Non, Dr. Peterson issued a new mantra that is capable of lulling apologetic practitioners into a stupor of thought, " Wright, Sorenson, Clark, Hull, Gardner ". Not sure how many times the apologetic practitioner is supposed to repeat the mantra, but I am assuming his stupor of...

This is a fascinating thread and I've read the whole thing a couple of times now. What a group of minds are congregated here! I don't think I can bring anything to the table other than a couple uncredentialed impressions: 1) It seems that the proponents of this theory have shot their wad. They have ...

Their inclusiveness may be put to an Abrahamic Test: RFM just announced in his last podcast that he and John Dehlin are preparing a Mormon Stories episode on this whole rhubarb between the Interpreter and the JSPP.

The Interpreter article also devotes a lot of attention to the term "Shinehah" (as if to emphasize the point that the JSPP suffers from the lack of a qualified Egyptologist to guide it). I am using ellipses to begin the quoted section because I am starting from the middle of a paragraph. ".....One f...

I would post this as a comment at the Interpreter but I am in no mood to soften my verbiage and go through all the oriental verbal self-abnenation and flattery required to see a watered-down version of what I wish to say on their site. Caveat Lector: I pretend to no more than a layperson's grasp of ...

Hey Guys, New here. Not sure if this is too much of a tangent for this fascinating topic; nor am I sure that it isn't already old news, but here goes: I was reading the online version of the Book of Abraham on the church website around the time of the Robert Rittner interviews. Having been out of th...