Wednesday, February 26, 2020

URLs for My Mormon Studies Articles and Essays


I decided it might be useful for me, if not for others, to have the URLs to all my Mormon studies articles and essays in one place. So I’m going to list them here. Take a gander if you’re curious.

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought:
1. “Frau Rüster and the Cure for Cognitive Dissonance,” 40.3 (2007)
This personal essay eventually was rewritten in third-person and appeared as a chapter in my mission memoir Bruder: The Perplexingly Spiritual Life and Not Entirely Unexpected Death of a Mormon Missionary (BCC Press, 2019), with more nuance and a different conclusion that resulted from extra years of pondering about the experience.

2. “Eternal Misfit,” 43.3 (2010)
This is actually a short story, but it contains some interesting questions and received the award in 2010 for the best short fiction in Dialogue.

3. “Why the True Church Cannot Be Perfect,” 46.1 (2013)

4. “What Shall We Do with Thou? Modern Mormonism’s Unruly Usage of Archaic English Pronouns,” 47.2 (2014)

5. “Archaic Pronouns and Verbs in the Book of Mormon: What Inconsistent Usage Tells Us about Translation Theories,” 47.3 (2014)

6. “The Source of God’s Authority: One Argument for an Unambiguous Doctrine of Preexistence,” 49.3 (2016)

7. “Authority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 1: Definitions and Development,” 51.1 (2018)

8. “Authority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 2: Ordinances, Quorums, Nonpriesthood Authority, Presiding, Priestesses, and Priesthood Bans,” 51.2 (2018)

9. “Dealing with Difficult Questions,” 52.4 (2019)

Sunstone:
1. “Economic Equality: A Worldly Rationale for a Heavenly Requirement,” June 2010
I stand by everything in this article except for the quote by Abraham Lincoln, which, it turns out, was bogus.

2. “Scripture Notes: Unearthing Abinadi’s Genealogy,” June 11, 2013

3. “The Appearance and Disappearance of Lourdes Amarille Estrada,” February 11, 2014

4. “Productivity and the Mormon Busyness Ethic,” November 26, 2014

5. “The Tongue of Angels of the Mind of the Borg,” March 12, 2019
This personal essay also ended up as a chapter in my mission memoir, rewritten in third person.

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies:
“The Book of Mormon Translation Puzzle,” 23.1 (2014)

BYU Studies:
“God Works in Mysterious Ways,” 46.1 (2007)
Since I am the editorial director at BYU Studies, I don’t publish there much, other than an occasional book review. This personal essay also ended up in my mission memoir, rewritten in third person.

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