The Puzzle of Blasphemy
Nate Oman | April 25, 2006
In one of its fitful bursts of faux-oracular prose, the Supreme Court once declared that the U.S. Constitution knows no blasphemy.
The Rhetorical Burden of Authority
Nate Oman | April 23, 2006
Authority is a key concept in Mormonism.
Puritanism without Calvinism
Nate Oman | April 21, 2006
Three of the best books that I have ever read on Mormonism are not about Mormonism at all:
A Mother in Heaven Sighting
Nate Oman | April 17, 2006
Mother in Heaven recently made a cameo appearance in correlated materials.
Mormon Studies at Claremont
Nate Oman | April 14, 2006
The LDS Council for Mormon Studies, which has been involved with the creation of a chair in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University, has issued the following press release:
A Mormon Image: Sweaters for the Penguins
Nate Oman | April 13, 2006
This image was too good not to revive the Mormon Images feature of blessed memory.
The Last Door
Nate Oman | April 12, 2006
We’ve all heard the stories about intrepid missionaries who faced rejection door after door only to be let in at the final house that they contacted.
On Earning the Right to Complain
Nate Oman | April 11, 2006
“If you don’t pay your tithing and serve in the Church, you give up your right to bitch,”
In Defense of the Word “Gentile”
Nate Oman | April 10, 2006
I like referring to non-Mormons as “Gentiles.”
From the Archives: Mormon Cursing
Nate Oman | April 8, 2006
While reading Wilford Woodruff’s diaries recently, I discovered that I have been living in a cursed part of the country. What am I to make of this, and the more general phenomena of Mormon cursing?