From The Archives: Posts You Might Have Missed, November-December 2008

By July 6, 2009


Posts You Might Have Missed, January-February 2008

Posts You Might Have Missed, March-May 2008

Posts You Might Have Missed, June-August 2008

Posts You Might Have Missed, September-October 2008

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The guest blogging exploits of Jacob B begin now

By July 4, 2009


This summer the JI hopes to host a number of fascinating and informative guest bloggers; our first is Jacob Baker, who blogs normally here and who also eats a mean calzone.

Jacob is a PhD student in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University. He has published essays on Mormon theology, philosophy, and history in Dialogue and Element: The Journal for the Society of Mormon Philosophy and Theology and is currently working as editor of a collection of essays by Mormon and non-Mormon scholars on Mormon philosophy and theology (somehow he’ll need to learn write and care about non-Mormon topics if he is ever to get a job). Though ridiculously ignorant of history and historiographical methodology, he feels honored to be a former Bushman fellow (2007) and sit in wonderment and awe at the feet of Matt B., Stan T., and David G. (Richard Bushman and Terryl Givens were pretty good too). Most importantly, he he is married to the former Amanda Nielson and has 3 children.


From The Archives: Posts You Might Have Missed, September-October 2008

By July 4, 2009


Posts You Might Have Missed, January-February 2008

Posts You Might Have Missed, March-May 2008

Posts You Might Have Missed, June-August 2008

Here are some great posts from September to October 2008:

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From the Archives: Posts You Might Have Missed, June-August 2008

By July 3, 2009


It was a productive summer for JI bloggers in 2008.

Enjoy these gems, remembering that there were many more great posts than these.

Be sure not to miss Posts You Might Have Missed January-February 2008 and March-May 2008.

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From The Archives: Posts You Might Have Missed, March-May 2008

By July 2, 2009


More great stuff, March and April 2008:

Posts You Might Have Missed From January-February 2008

Directions to the Steed Farm Please

Mormon Responses to Darwin, 1859-1933

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On Doubt

By July 1, 2009


For those embroiled by the academic search for truth?who have suspended belief or lost faith or sought a new faith?the word is not doubt but hope, fierce and brave and full of anxious questions. A few poems today from beloved poetess Emma Lou Thayne.

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From the Archives: Posts You Might Have Missed January-February 2008

By July 1, 2009


I realized I started a “Posts You Might Have Missed” series that was supposed to cull some memorable posts from our first year, but I only got through December, 2007.  So, this is the first part of my atonement for dropping the ball on that, which will cover from January to February 2008.  Enjoy with us this stroll down memory lane.

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2009 Summer Seminar Symposium: Schedule

By June 25, 2009


Parley and Orson Pratt and Nineteenth-Century Mormon Thought

Public Symposium at Brigham Young University

Sponsored by the Mormon Scholars Foundation

July 2, 2009

B092 of the Joseph F. Smith Building at BYU

In the tradition of Richard Bushman?s summer seminars on Joseph Smith and early Mormonism, eight graduate students, under the direction of Terryl Givens and Matthew Grow, have studied the writings of Orson and Parley Pratt and will be presenting their research at this symposium. The seminar has been hosted by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.

10:00 Terryl Givens, University of Richmond, Introduction

10:10 Ryan Tobler, University of Chicago, ?Parley Pratt and Evolving Views of the American Republic in Early

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Public Screening of “Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons” at Benchmark Books

By June 24, 2009


I received the following in my email. I’ll post it since it’s a great documentary as well as being a great Mormon book store.

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The JI reviews the Church History Library and Archives

By June 23, 2009


Over the past week, four contributors to the Juvenile Instructor have toured, given tours, researched in, peered through the windows of, and otherwise participated in the opening of the new LDS Church History Library and Archives. Their experiences, ruminations, and ponderables are below.

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