ORIGINALLY POSTED AT RATIONALFAITHS.COM ON MAY 13, 2018. This year I have been reading an edited volume of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s written works. Bonhoeffer was a German pastor who
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Mormonism as “metaphor and sacrament” [archive]
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT RATIONALFAITHS.COM ON JANUARY 7, 2017. Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true
Religious Authority, Postmodernism, and Mormonism [archive]
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT RATIONALFAITHS.COM ON JUNE 7, 2016. My past two posts (here and here) have given an overview of the differences between premodern, modern, and postmodern
Should Mormonism Embrace Post-Modern Conceptions of Religious Structure and Authority? [archive]
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT RATIONALFAITHS.COM ON APRIL 5, 2016. If you haven’t read Diana Butler Bass, you should. Bass has a story that should resonate strongly with
A non-literal reading of the Nephi narrative in the Book of Mormon [archive]
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT RATIONALFAITHS.COM ON MARCH 1, 2016. For what could I write more than my fathers have written? For have not they revealed the
We’ve heard these arguments before… [archive]
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT RATIONALFAITHS.COM ON DECEMBER 1, 2015. On August 27, 1954 Elder Mark E. Peterson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles delivered an