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The Bible
- Different Views of Inerrancy
- Bart Erhman on Contradictions in the Bible
- Hebrews and Authorship
- 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
Christianity
- Finding Christian Heretics in Strange Places
- Christianity and Equality
- A Short History of the Megachurch, and Why There Aren't Any Mormon Megachurches
- 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
- Biblical Cosmology
- Evangelical Cults of Personality
- Faith and Reason
- Understanding Baptists
- Kung on Modernity
- Masonic Religion
- The Gospel of Thomas
- English Bibles
- 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
- Nope, Not a Cult
- Mormon Scripture
- The Mormon Trinity
- Stendahl's Three Rules of Religious Understanding
LDS Apologetics
- Translation and Apologetics
- FAIR Combats New Oubreak of Folk Doctrine
- The New Mormon Apologetics
- Generations
- Trends in Apologetics
- FARMS and Authorship
LDS Culture
- Young Mormon Scholars, Bloggers, and Readers
- 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?
- 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
- Palmer Endgame: A Draw?
- LDS Revenues and Assets
- Where's All That Tithing Money Going?
- Liahona Dreams
- What Did Joseph Know About the Nephites?
- Chiasmus, and Other Clever Tricks
- Unwritten Rules
- A Man Named Zelph
- Kierkegaard and Mormonism
- Jacob Hamblin's House and Wives
- Gardens and Testimony
- Mormon Exhorters
LDS Doctrine
- Terry Eagleton on Two Kinds of Faith
- AWOL: The Threefold Mission of the Church
- 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
- Mormon Testimony
More entries to come.
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