I’m interested in the 2017 Mormon Theology Seminar, with theme ‘God Himself Shall Come Down: Reading Mosiah 15’.  I love the subject matter here.  See more info on the seminar at the bycommonconsent site.  I’m looking forward to the work that comes out of this Seminar.  When I saw the topic, I decided I […]

Ever since a Peggy Statcher Flack SL Tribune article came out a few weeks ago promising changes in the Gospel Doctrine manual, I’ve been wearing out my refresh button on my browser looking for these changes.   Rather than redo the Sunday school manual — a curriculum guide for lay teachers to explore the text […]

  Mr. Emil Gower: I owe everything to George Bailey. Help him, dear Father. Giuseppe Martini: Joseph, Jesus and Mary. Help my friend, Mr. Bailey. Ma Bailey: Help my son, George, tonight. Bert: He never thinks about himself, God, that’s why he’s in trouble. Ernie Bishop: George is a good guy. Give him a break, […]

  I have really been loving the #lighttheworld campaign the church is encouraging us to do.  Today’s #lighttheworld step is ‘Jesus Calmed the Storm and So Can You‘.  I’m one of those people that really need religion.  I’m not naturally patient or selfless.  I’m prone to anger, temper, and get stressed out and lash out […]

This is the fourth in a series of posts looking at stylometry in the Book of Mormon.  This post will define the L Voice of the Book of Mormon Three Voice Hypothesis, based on computer wordprint analysis of BOM text.  The Book of Mormon Three Voice Hypothesis is that the Book of Mormon has three distinct […]

  This is the third in a series of posts defining the Book of Mormon Three Voice Hypothesis, based on computer wordprint analysis of BOM text.  The Book of Mormon Three Voice Hypothesis is that the Book of Mormon has three distinct voices: N (Narrative), S (Sermon), and L (Late).  The N and S is […]

  I saw a blog post from Christopher Cunningham going around titled ’21 Reasons It Doesn’t Matter if the Church is True’.  I wanted to respond with a short blog post of my own. Christopher’s premise: A lot of people aren’t looking for a true church, they’re looking for a good church. They want to be part […]

  Tad Callister, former Seventy of the church, spoke at BYU for the devotional address this past Tuesday 11/1/2016.  If you’ve read my blogs at all, you’re probably aware of two things.  1) I have a sometimes illogically fierce loyalty and devotion to the prophet, apostles and leaders of the LDS church  2) I love […]

This is the second in a series of posts defining the Book of Mormon Three Voice Hypothesis, based on computer wordprint analysis of BOM text.  This will focus on introducing the N Voice (narrative).  And contrasting that to the S Voice. Review of definitions and methodology I developed a database of Book of Mormon text […]

This is an introduction to a series of posts that I will be making to define the Three Voice Hypothesis for Book of Mormon authorship attribution, developed from analyzing Book of Mormon wordprint data. Most people that read the Book of Mormon seriously intuitively feel like there are multiple voices.  For faithful LDS, the explanation […]