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Saturday Jan 25, 2020

2.5 Doubt

Saturday Jan 25, 2020

Doubt and skepticism is a recurring theme on Face in Hat. Today we look at President Uchtdorf’s 2013 talk, “Come, Join with Us”, which includes the now famous phrase “doubt your doubts.” What does this mean and how do different people in the church interpret it?

“Come, Join with Us”, by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Oct 2013 General Conference session

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2013/10/come-join-with-us

Heisenberg uncertainty principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church, by Jana Reese

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0190885203

The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections On the Quest for Faith, by Tera and Fiona Gibbons

https://amzn.to/35Tt1DD

Jane & Emma

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8581198/

https://amzn.to/30pN2jM

My Testimony is My Life, by The Star-Eater

https://www.arch-hive.net/post/my-testimony-is-my-life

2nd Isaiah and the Book of Mormon

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1984/10/i-have-a-question/how-do-we-explain-material-from-isaiah-in-the-book-of-mormon?lang=eng

A very little bit on doubt, by Eric Jepson

https://thmazing.blogspot.com/2007/09/very-little-bit-on-doubt-svithe.html

When Doubts and Questions Arise, by Adam Kotter

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2015/03/when-doubts-and-questions-arise

(cited scriptures)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/morm/9.27

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/6.36

Saturday Dec 14, 2019

2.4 Thou Shalt Maybe

Saturday Dec 14, 2019

Mormons have interesting proscriptions. Some are more open to interpretation than others, and how they are interpreted has changed over our history. We look at the Word of Wisdom, rated R movies, and the Sabbath day as three examples.

D&C 89: The Word of Wisdom

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/89

Word of Wisdom gospel topic

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/word-of-wisdom

Thomas G. Alexander, "The Word of Wisdom: From Principle to Requirement", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 14:3 (1981) pp. 78–88.

http://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V14N03_80.pdf

Handbook 2 on Word of Wisdom (21.3.11)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/handbook-2-administering-the-church/selected-church-policies-and-guidelines/selected-church-policies

“Vaping, Coffee, Tea, and Marijuana,” New Era article, Aug 2019

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/2019/08/vaping-coffee-tea-and-marijuana

Eric’s Twitter conversation about green tea

https://twitter.com/thmazing/status/1161372166127902720

Wow there is a lot of research about the comma in vs. 13 of the Word of Wisdom. This article especially is great: A. Jane Birch (2014). “Questioning the Comma in Verse 13 of the Word of Wisdom.” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 10: 133-149

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/questioning-the-comma-in-verse-13-of-the-word-of-wisdom/

Hello Internet episode including discussion of The Game Changers, a documentary “about plant-based eating, protein, and strength”

http://www.hellointernet.fm/podcast/130

https://www.netflix.com/title/81157840

Kurzgesagt: Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxvQPzrg2Wg

Word of Wisdom Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_Wisdom

To the “Youth of the Noble Birthright” - President Ezra Taft Benson, Spring 1986 General Conference, Priesthood session

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1986/04/to-the-youth-of-the-noble-birthright

For the Strength of Youth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Strength_of_Youth

https://www.docdroid.net/eVNYkuG/1990-for-the-strength-of-youth-lds-standards-of-conduct.pdf#page=12

Gospel topic on the sabbath day

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/sabbath-day

Decisions for Which I've Been Grateful by Clayton M. Christensen (specifically the fourth decision about basketball on Sunday)

http://www2.byui.edu/Presentations/Transcripts/Devotionals/2004_06_08_Christensen.htm

Kim Ho Jik: Korean Pioneer, by Denny Roy (starting with “Brother Kim also made a memorably bold statement of dedication to his faith..”)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1988/07/kim-ho-jik-korean-pioneer

Church Updates Temple Recommend Interview Questions

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/october-2019-general-conference-temple-recommend

Sunday Nov 24, 2019

2.3 Evomolution

Sunday Nov 24, 2019

Albert Einstein, C. S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, Paul. Talking about evolution, Adam and Eve, death, and the March of Progress takes us on quite the journey!

Wiki on Mormon views on evolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_views_on_evolution

Meanwhile, in Ohio… https://local12.com/news/local/ohio-house-passes-bill-allowing-student-answers-to-be-scientifically-wrong-due-to-religion

Paul’s teaching about faith

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/heb/11.1-40

2.2 Canonization and the King Follett Discourse

Monday Nov 11, 2019

How do LDS works get canonized? Should the King Follet Discourse be scripture? What about other teachings of Joseph Smith or more recent prophets? Lots of references in the show notes for this one. Check them out!

The King Follett Discourse

http://mldb.byu.edu/follett.htm

Mormon Literature Online Anthology Sampler, Selections from various genres and periods of Mormon Literature

http://mldb.byu.edu/mlitsamp.htm

Wiki for the King Follett Discourse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Follett_discourse

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, by Joseph Fielding Smith (1938)

https://scriptures.byu.edu/tpjs/STPJS.pdf

Gospel Principles, Ch. 47 Exaltation

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-principles/chapter-47-exaltation

Wiki standard works

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_works

Wiki common consent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_consent

Proclamations, declarations clarify, reaffirm LDS doctrine, by Julie Dockstader (includes quote from Edward J. Brandt)

https://www.thechurchnews.com/archives/1999-11-06/proclamations-declarations-clarify-reaffirm-lds-doctrine-121422

Proclamations of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, by Robert J. Matthews

https://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Proclamations_of_the_First_Presidency_and_the_Quorum_of_the_Twelve_Apostles

Closing Remarks, by President Russell M. Nelson, Sunday Afternoon session, October 2019 General Conference (includes information about upcoming Spring 2020 General Conference)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2019/10/57nelson

The Family, A Proclamation to the World

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family:_A_Proclamation_to_the_World

Women across the globe hope to follow and change LDS Church, their families as they unleash their influence, by Karissa Neely (includes quotes by Melissa Inouye)

https://www.heraldextra.com/special-section/lds/fall2019/the-global-power-of-women-in-the-lds-church/article_80c77d5f-8712-5011-b255-db29a6473dd4.html

More by Melissa Inouye: Crossings: A Bald Asian American Latter-day Saint Woman Scholar's Ventures Through Life, Death, Cancer, and Motherhood (2019)

https://amzn.to/32BKVJp

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory Prince and Wm. Robert Wright (2005)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._McKay_and_the_Rise_of_Modern_Mormonism

“The perfect union of man and woman”: reclamation and collaboration in Joseph Smith’s theology making, by Fiona Givens

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V49N01_99.pdf

Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism, by Jonathan A. Stapley and Kristine Wright. Journal of Mormon History Vol. 37, No. 1, Winter 2011, pp 1-85 (see page 57)

https://mormonhistoryassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Journal-of-Mormon-History-Vol.-37-Issue-1-2011.pdf

Sunday Sep 29, 2019

2.1 Millennial musings

Sunday Sep 29, 2019

For the start of season 2, Aaron and Eric chat about the Millenium, signs of the second coming, transhumanism, and what % of the world is going to what % of hell in what % of a handbasket :)

Gospel topics second coming/millennium

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/second-coming-of-jesus-christ

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/millennium

5 myths about the millennium by Robert L. Millet

http://www.ldsliving.com/5-Millennium-Myths-You-Thought-Were-True/s/76486

Gospel principles

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-principles/chapter-43-signs-of-the-second-coming

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

War

https://youtu.be/NbuUW9i-mHs

Parasites

https://youtu.be/qNWWrDBRBqk

Overpopulation

https://youtu.be/QsBT5EQt348

Our world in data

https://ourworldindata.org

D&C 19

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/19

Transhumanism links

https://transfigurism.org/mormon-transhumanist-affirmation

Paradisiacal Glory by Katherine Cowley

https://lit.mormonartist.net/2019/07/paradisiacal-glory-katherine-cowley/

Brigham Young quote (from twitter :)

https://twitter.com/Keepapitchinin/status/1167127582489206785

Joel Pett climate summit cartoon

http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=41786

Nephi Anderson’s novel Added Upon

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17249

Gospel of Thomas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas

Isaiah 64:4

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/isa/64.4

Saturday Jun 08, 2019

1.10 Translation and the Book of Abraham

Saturday Jun 08, 2019

What do mummies, papyrus, and a great fire have to do with modern scripture? Join us as we look at the broad meaning of the word translation and how it can be applied to Joseph Smith’s work and the Pearl of Great Price.

Changes to the Lord’s Prayer

https://www.ucatholic.com/news/pope-francis-approves-changes-to-lords-prayer-gloria-of-italian-missal/

Joseph Smith’s translation of the Lord’s Prayer

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/jst/jst-matt/6.14

Wiki: Joseph Smith’s translation of the Bible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith_Translation_of_the_Bible

Gospel topics essay: Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/translation-and-historicity-of-the-book-of-abraham?lang=eng&_r=1

Abraham 3:22-23

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/abr/3.22-23?lang=eng#p22

Wiki: Critical appraisal of the Book of Abraham

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_appraisal_of_the_Book_of_Abraham

Letters to a Young Mormon (pages 32 and 34), by Adam S. Miller

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20427135-letters-to-a-young-mormon

South Park!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_About_Mormons

Saturday May 04, 2019

1.9 Drake’s equation and Mormon cosmology

Saturday May 04, 2019

Let’s talk about aliens! Our hosts discuss the Fermi paradox, Drake’s equation and SETI, and then cover how Mormon doctrines about many worlds relate to the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

Wiki links!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_cosmology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Follett_discourse

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens? Parts 1 and 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhhvQGsMEc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fQkVqno-uI

60 minutes interview with President Hinckley. Note this video doesn’t have the quote we mentioned which was actually from a Time article. We include here a FairMormon article discussing how President Hinckley was actually taken a bit out of context in that article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK0PxT5Vm4g

https://www.fairmormon.org/archive/publications/does_president_hinckley_understand_lds_doctrine

Literature!

Leviathan Wakes, by James S. A. Corey

https://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-Wakes-James-S-Corey/dp/0316129089

"Avek, Who Is Distributed" (story about baptizing an AI)

online:

https://lit.mormonartist.net/2016/02/avek-who-is-distributed/

Original discussion page:

https://motleyvision.org/2012/10/26/discuss-avek-who-is-distributed-by-steven-peck/

Collected here: https://amzn.to/2JbcZx8

Monsters & Mormons: https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Mormons-Wm-Henry-Morris/dp/0982781245

"Let the Mountains Tremble for Adoniha Has Fallen" by Steven L. Peck (medieval Mormons on Mars)

"Bokev Momen" by D. Michael Martindale (aliens rescue adducted missionary)

"That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made" by Eric James Stone (aliens that live in the Sun)

not included in discussion: "First Estate" by Katherine Woodbury: Mormon Ruth and her alien Boaz

Johnson, Hollis R. (1992), "Worlds", in Ludlow, Daniel H (ed.), Encyclopedia of Mormonism, New York: Macmillan Publishing, pp. 1595–96, ISBN 0-02-879602-0, OCLC 24502140

http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/EoM/id/4358

Saturday Apr 20, 2019

1.8 Polygamy’s Ghost

Saturday Apr 20, 2019

Our hosts discuss the book “The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy,” by Carol Lynn Pearson.

The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men, by Carol Lynn Pearson:

https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Eternal-Polygamy-Haunting-Hearts/dp/0997458208

Eric’s literary works:

The Widower: https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V42N02_137.pdf

The Prophetess of Mars: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NSJMQBV

Book review by Rebecca J

https://bycommonconsent.com/2016/12/28/book-reviewish-carol-lynn-pearsons-the-ghost-of-eternal-polygamy/

Privileged, by Kyle Korver

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/kyle-korver-utah-jazz-nba

Too sacred for public consumption -or- Disgusting the prophet’s wife, blog entry by Eric

https://motleyvision.org/2009/07/09/too-sacred-for-public-consumption-or-disgusting-the-prophets-wife/

The panel honoring Carol Lynn Pearson: AML Conference 2019. Quote from 1:28:57-1:31:25:

http://associationmormonletters.org/blog/2019/04/carol-lynn-pearson-2019/

Friday Apr 05, 2019

1.7 Mormon literature and the AML

Friday Apr 05, 2019

The 2019 Association for Mormon Letters conference was excellent. Our hosts use some of the panels as a means to discuss Mormon literature in general, focusing on the work of Carol Lynn Pearson, and on the new church history book, Saints.

Authors mentioned: Brandon Sanderson, Orson Scott Card, and DJ Butler. Favorite books by them:

Mistborn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn

Ender’s Game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game

Witchy Eye: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753675-witchy-eye

Carol Lynn Pearson: books mentioned: Beginnings, the Ghost of Eternal Polygamy, and Goodbye, I love you. The poem, A Motherless House:

http://www.amotherhere.com/coll/pearson1.php

The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy will be discussed on a future episode:

https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Eternal-Polygamy-Haunting-Hearts/dp/0997458208

The Saint’s panel was comprised of authors Scott Hales, James Goldberg, Melissa Leilani Larson, and Angela Hallstrom. Some of their work:

The Garden of Enid: http://thegardenofenid.tumblr.com/

The Five Books of Jesus: https://www.amazon.com/Five-Books-Jesus-James-Goldberg/dp/1479271306

Jane and Emma: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8581198