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.
