Mormon Heretic

I also blog at Wheat and Tares (starting Oct 2010).  Here are my posts there.

• Aug 20. 2012 –
• Aug 13, 2012 – Multiple First Vision Accounts
• Aug 6, 2012 – FAIR 2012 Recap
• July 30, 2012 – Sunstone 2012 Recap
• July 23, 2012 – Dehlin asks, “Where do we go?“
• July 16, 2012 – Bushman on Sunstone/Dialogue
• July 9, 2012 – The Church Should Stay Out of the History Business
• July 2, 2012 – The Next Lebron Might Serve a Mormon Mission
• June 25, 2012 – Talking to Angels
• June 18, 2012 – The Religious Test & Cleanflix
• June 11, 2012 – Should the Church Apologize for the Ban?
• June 4, 2012 – Was 1978 the right year?
• May 28, 2012 – Women and Temples
• May 21, 2012 – The Word of Wisdom pre-1843
• May 14, 2012 – Mitt, Falwell, and Liberty University
• May 7, 2012 – Gender and Intersexuals
• April 30, 2012 – Routine Prophecy
• April 23, 2012 – Bill Russell: Nephi is Dangerous
• April 16, 2012 – Misunderstanding Racism
• April 9, 2012 – Mormons Have Sub-par Easter Services
• April 2, 2012 – Prince of Peace Dies Violent Death
• Mar 26, 2012 – Were Jesus and Mary Married?
• Mar 19, 2012 – Scandalous Behavior of Jesus Around Women
• Mar 12, 2012 – Smearing Mary Magdalene
• Mar 5, 2012 – Priesthood Ban Myths
• Feb 27, 2012 – Dumbing Down/Simplifying the Gospel
• Feb 20, 2012 – Michael Quinn on Benefits of Correlation
• Feb 13, 2012 – Atonement Theories
• Feb 6, 2012 – Looking at the BoM as Pseudepigrapha
• Jan 30, 2012 – Boomerang Back to Religion
• Jan 23, 2012 – Jana Riess: The Mormon Midrash
• Jan 16, 2012 – The First Black Mormon Leader: Pete
• Jan 9, 2012 – Eating Crow Over Jimmer and Tim Tebow
• Jan 2, 2012 – Mixing Religion and Government
• Dec 26, 2011 – Was Jesus Born in December?
• Dec 19, 2011 – Nauvoo City Council Minutes
• Dec 12, 2011 – Manuscript Found — Part 2
• Dec 5, 2011 – Looking at the Spaulding Manuscript – Part 1
• Nov 28, 2011 – Daniel Peterson: “Some of our manuals I think are not very good.“
• Nov 23, 2011 – Notable Deaths in Past 2 Weeks
• Nov 21, 2011 – Conflating Cain and Bigfoot
• Nov 14, 2011 – Sister Wives are Socialist
• Nov 7, 2011 – Mormons Defending the Cross
• Oct 31, 2011 – Pre-Halloween Mormon Massacre
• Oct 24, 2011 – Woodruff’s Vision of the Founding Fathers
• Oct 17, 2011 – Why They Stay
• Oct 10, 2011 – Navel Gazing: One Year Later…
• Oct 3, 2011 – Why Can’t God Speak English?
• Oct 1, 2011 – General Conference Open Thread
• Sept 26, 2011 – Book of Mormon Maps
• Sept 19, 2011 – The Chicago Experiment
• Sept 12, 2011 – 10 Years After 9/11
• Sept 5, 2011 – Bloom calls Smith “most eminent intellectual in Mormon history”
• August 29, 2011 – Ancient Proof-Texting
• August 22, 2011 – Abortion and Crime
• August 15, 2011 – The Apocryphal Book of Judith
• August 8, 2011 – Interesting Presentations at Weber State
• August 1, 2011 – William McCary: the black prophet
• July 25, 2011 – Non Traditional Pioneer Stories
• July 18, 2011 – Mormons were Anti-Slavery and Anti-Abolitionist
• July 11, 2011 – Mountain Meadows is Newest National Historic Landmark
• July 4, 2011 – Independence Day Traditions
• June 27, 2011 – Perspectives on the Holy Ghost
• June 20, 2011 – Jimmermania, Reilly, and BYU fans
• June 13, 2011 – 17 Miracles: Faithful and Foolish Pioneers
• June 6, 2011 – Using Scriptures to Debunk the Priesthood Ban
• May 30, 2011 – MHA 2011 Recap
• May 23, 2011 – Mormon Enigmas: Linda Newell and Valeen Avery
• May 16, 2011 – Latter-day Dissent
• May 9, 2011 – Bishop Ainge Takes in his Troubled Nephew
• May 2, 2011 – May Day! Obama Gets Osama
• April 25, 2011 – Good Friday, Easter, and Mormons
• April 18, 2011 – Richard Gabriel Says Ancient Israelites Were Not Slaves
• April 11, 2011 – A Mormon Rescue from the Great Depression
• April 4, 2011 – Confession: General Conference Was Difficult for Me
• Mar 28, 2011 – Women and Priesthood: The Folly of Conflating Spiritual Gifts
• Mar 21, 2011 – Bishop Burton’s Public Stand on Immigration
• Mar 14, 2011 – Mormon Women Giving Blessings
• Mar 11, 2011 – How would you respond?
• Mar 7, 2011 – Development of LDS Temple Worship
• Feb 28, 2011 – Why Do LDS Leaders Care So Much About Grooming?
• Feb 21, 2011 – Rebuttal to Jockers
• Feb 14, 2011 – Who was St. Valentine?
• Feb 7, 2011 – Looking at Strang’s Letter of Appointment
• Jan 31, 2011 – Mummies in the Temple
• Jan 24, 2011 – Which Mormon Candidate for President?
• Jan 21, 2011 – LDS Film Festival next week
• Jan 17, 2011 – Women and the Melchizedek Priesthood
• Jan 10, 2011 – Women with Priesthood in Ancient Christianity
• Jan 3, 2011 – What’s Up with Non-Biblical Angels?
• Dec 27, 2010 – LDS Apps for the Kindle
• Dec 20, 2010 – The Christmas Star in the Book of Mormon
• Dec 17 – 2010 –Provo Tabernacle Burns
• Dec 13, 2010 – Stories of Jesus’ Childhood
• Dec 6, 2010 – The Untold Story of Joseph and Mary
• Nov 29, 2010 – Gospel of the Birth of Mary
• Nov 22, 2010 –Thanksgiving and Happiness
• Nov 15, 2010 – Benson, Eisenhower, and Communism
• Nov 8, 2010 – What are we to make of Richard Dutcher?
• Nov 1, 2010 –Why Mormons Hated Republicans in the 1800′s
• Oct 25, 2010 – Did Peter get Demoted? Was James the Real Leader of Ancient Christianity?
• Oct 18, 2010 – History of Fundamentalist Mormons
• Oct 11, 2010 – The Passing of Richard Van Wagoner
• Oct 10, 2010 – Thanksgiving and Fast Offerings
• Oct 4, 2010 – Out with the Old, In with the New

I was a blogger at Mormon Matters from Feb 2009 – Sept 2010.  Here is a list of my posts there.

• Sept 28, 2010 – What do you think of a Mosque at Ground Zero?
• Sept 21, 2010 – Comparing Correlation with the Supreme Court
• Sept 14, 2010 – Mental Illness and Suicide
• Sept 7, 2010 – Coke, Rum Cake, and President McKay
• Aug 31, 2010 – Mormon Bishop Killed at Church
• Aug 24, 2010 – If They Tarry
• Aug 17, 2010 – Sunstone 2010 — A Feminist Recap
• Aug 10, 2010 – Religious Archaeology and Evidence
• Aug 6, 2010 – Hanging Out with Apostles at Sunstone
• Aug 3, 2010 – Elder Brown Defines Political Extremism
• July 27, 2010 – The Moral Panic Causes Trouble in Zion
• July 25, 2010 – Songs That Touch Our Hearts
• July 20, 2010 – Tackling the Mormon Myth about Alice Cooper
• July 13, 2010 – Strangite Q&A
• July 6, 2010 – Eastern Orthodoxy: Theosis/Deification
• June 29, 2010 – A Horrific Tale of Forgiveness
• June 22, 2010 – Joseph and Sidney: A Strained Friendship
• June 15, 2010 – United Order vs Consecration
• June 8, 2010 – Are you sure you’d like to live the United Order?
• June 1, 2010 – A Schismatic End to the Mormon History Association meetings.
• May 30, 2010 – Prayer and Politics
• May 25, 2010 – Joseph Smith’s Presidential Platform
• May 16, 2010 – Questions About the Exodus
• May 2, 2010 – Book of Mormon on the Baja
• Apr 25, 2010 – Is prayer a form of “deity panhandling”?
• Mar 28, 2010 – Rachel and Leah: A Modern Perspective
• Mar 6, 2010 – Dueling Wordprint Studies
• Feb 27, 2010 – Are Mormon Academics Winning the Debate with Evangelicals?
• Feb 21, 2010 – Home Teaching the Mentally Ill
• Jan 31, 2010 – Mormon Missionaries Die in Romania
• Jan 24, 2010 – For God’s Sake, Blog!
• Jan 16, 2010 – Mormon Innovations: the Pre-Mortal Life
• Jan 2, 2010 – Did Mormon Influence Increase over the Decade?
• Dec 26, 2009 – Virtual PH/RS Lesson: Elder Eyring’s talk and the New Year
• Dec 20, 2009 – Christmas Gifts: Gold, Frankincense, Myrrh
• Dec 13, 2009 – 12 Days of Christmas and 3 Kings Day
• Dec 9, 2009 – A Different Perspective on the Wise Men
• Dec 3, 2009 – Peruvian Setting for the Book of Mormon
• Nov 21, 2009 – Michael Smith Suspended for Iran Comments
• Nov 14, 2009 – Utah Happiest State in Nation
• Nov 10, 2009 – Carthage Conspiracy
• Nov 4, 2009 – Similarities between Lehi and the Lemba
• Oct 25, 2009 – Pres Monson accepts Honor from “School of the Prophets”
• Oct 16, 2009 – It Is Possible to Effect Some Changes in Your Stake
• Sep 27, 2009 – Trading Polygamy for Statehood
• Aug 29, 2009 – Scripture Inerrancy, Literalism, and Pres Veazey
• Aug 23, 2009 – A Case for Slavery
• July 29, 2009 – Why do you go to Church?
• July 9, 2009 – What if Christ’s Bones Were Found?
• July 3, 2009 – Joseph Smith is a Ute!
• July 1, 2009 – Book of Abraham and Gospel of Judas
• June 20, 2009 – Bushman’s Take on Polygamy
• June 14, 2009 – John Hamer returns (sort of)! A Look at the CoC
• June 1, 2009 – A South American Setting for Book of Mormon
• May 28, 2009 – Is Mormon Matters Balanced?
• May 25, 2009 – A Memorial Day Jack Mormon
• May 17, 2009 – My Perspective On Polygamy
• May 15, 2009 – Who’s #2?
• May 10, 2009 – Mother’s Day
• May 4, 2009 – Debunking the Spaulding Manuscript Theory
• May 1, 2009 – Why are the 12 Tribes of Israel Important?
• Apr 24, 2009 – History of Baptism/Mikvah
• Apr 20, 2009 – Unconventional Book of Mormon Geography Theories
• Apr 12, 2009 – Mainstream acceptance of Mormon’s Easter Story?
• Apr 5, 2009 – What’s your position on Euthanasia?
• Mar 28, 2009 – What do you think about Evolution?
• Mar 22, 2009 – The Difference between Persians and Arabs
• Mar 17, 2009 – St Patrick, A Wonderful Missionary
• Mar 14, 2009 – Positive Black History in the Church
• Mar 6, 2009 – More Open Mormon History
• Mar 1, 2009 – Virtual RS/PH Lesson #28 – Missionary Work
• Feb 20, 2009 – Virtual RS/PH Lesson #27 – Apostasy
• Feb 7, 2009 – Joshua’s Unholy War