exploring mormon culture, thought and texts
Clark is a well know voice on the Bloggernacle. His solo blog is Mormon Metaphysics and his comments on other blogs are some of the best in the Mormon blogging world.
Clark has agreed to do some guest posts here at Faith-Promoting Rumor. Please give him a warm welcome.
Sheldon Lawrence has kindly agreed to do a bit of guest blogging here at FPR. Sheldon is a latter-day Thoreau, in that he is a scholar and an outdoorsman (we need another person around here who can talk guns with Mogget).
By day, Sheldon teaches at BYU-Idaho. He is also a father of four and husband of one. Somewhere in between he is also working on his dissertation in English.
Please give Sheldon a warm welcome. We look forward to his posts.
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2008 was a good year for FPR. We gained three new permanent bloggers, Secco, David Clark, and The Yellow Dart, though we lost Chris H. to his own personal blog. We also had our 500th post on our three year anniversary. Below, I collected some of my personal favorite posts of 2008 for your rereading pleasure, or in case you missed them. Please feel free to add any others that I didn’t put on the list that you enjoyed at FPR this year. (For the sake of objectivity, I did not include any of my own!) In no particular order:
Tips on Applying Series, by SmallAxe
Nothing Wavering, by James bar Joseph
Catholics and Modernity series, by Mogget
Uzzah Killed for Blind Obedience, by Secco
BYU Religion Dean on Premortal Life series, by Jupiterschild
Why the Redistribution of Wealth, by Chris H.
The C-F-A and Non-Literal Adam and Eve, by lxxluthor
A Brief Apologia for Going to Teach in the Religious Education Department at BYU, by Nitsav
What is Biblical Criticism series, by David Clark
The Yoke of Biblical Fundamentalism-Meeting Higher Criticism, by The Yellow Dart
“Reconciliations and Reformulations”:
A Conference for LDS Graduate Students in Religious Studies
Harvard University, February 20-21, 2009
http://faithandknowledge.org
Many Latter-day Saints experience their scholarship and their religion as
clashing cultures, each with its competing values and contradictory
conclusions. Religious studies students especially struggle to reconcile their
faith and the knowledge they acquire in graduate school. The forms this
reconciliation take–including the failure to achieve reconciliation–become
crucial episodes in a student’s life history. The purpose of the Faith and
Knowledge Conference for 2009 is to provide a forum for exploring these
attempts at reconciliation.
Continue reading “Call for Papers”
We’d like to welcome two guest bloggers: Jondh from SundayPage and Yellow Dart from LDS Kai Ta Biblia. (For more on them see their “about” pages.) Both are young scholars planning on going to grad school in Biblical or Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Let’s welcome them to FPR!
Any teacher worth their salt as a teacher desires constructive feedback. Students desire to leave feedback, often anonymously, especially if it’s negative. From early personal experience, I know it’s hard to get sincere and thoughtful feedback when spontaneously asking the question face-to-face. Thus was RateMyProfessor.com born, in which students can rate their professors on a variety of characteristics and provide a brief description.
Assuming one can get an accurate enough perspective to be useful in decision making, would a similar site be appropriate for Institute or Gospel Doctrine teachers, in which prospective students at a University or prospective members of a ward could take the measure of a teacher ahead of time? Why or why not? How would it be different from the informal ward shopping LDS inevitably do when moving?
That is the name of the Guns ‘N Roses album that has been in the works for the past 10+ years. Axel Rose wants to absolutely perfect the sound before he allows it to be released. It is aptly named as a sort of idealistic goal which we hope is around the corner, but may never actually come. Basically that is what we are doing here. We are perfecting a number of posts right now which will soon be released. Hopefully it won’t take 10 years, but then again I doubt it will be as good as GNR. Stay tuned.