Akrasia

Nate Oman’s personal blog

An Image for Kaimi

Nate Oman | November 30, 2003

Here is what I have always thought was the best visual depication of Kaimi’s theory of Book of Mormon geography. The painting is by the wonderful Minerva Teichert.

Mormon Images

Nate Oman | November 30, 2003

There is a strange schizophrenia about popular images of Mormons. On one hand, we get stereotyped as shinny, well-scrubbed, conservative, paragons of middle American virtues circa 1955. On the other hand, we get stereotyped as dangerous, homicidal, polygamist fanatics. As Gordon points out in his post the latter stereotype popped up recently [...]

Reading the Book of Mormon

Nate Oman | November 25, 2003

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Mormons and the Bible

Nate Oman | November 25, 2003

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A Mormon Image: Our Army

Nate Oman | November 25, 2003

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Utah, Mormons and Bankruptcy

Nate Oman | November 25, 2003

Utah has the dubious honor of leading the nation in personal bankruptcy rates. According to the Salt Lake Tribune 1 in 37 households in Utah is insolvent. I suspect that this high level of bankruptcy filings may be what has been behind some recent words on debt in general conference. In 1998, [...]

Intro Pages

Nate Oman | November 25, 2003

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Noel Reynolds, Natural Law, and the Personalized Good

Nate Oman | November 25, 2003

One of my favorite former professors, Noel Reynolds, dropped by and left some very interesting comments on natural law. He begins by faulting the Thomistic natural law tradition for beginning its analysis with Aristotelianism rather than the scriptures, noting that in the scriptures it is either God’s command or our covenant with him [...]

Mormonism and Natural Law

Nate Oman | November 24, 2003

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Utah 3-BYU 0

Nate Oman | November 24, 2003

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