Nate Oman | August 31, 2006
Kiskilili poses the following very interesting question:
Often appearing to be caught between pronounced sacramentalist tendencies (ordinances effect real change that goes beyond their symbolic import) and an underdeveloped theology regarding the significance of our so-called “non-essential� ordinances (no transubstantiation for us!), we seem at a loss to explain clearly the difference between a non-priesthood holder [...]
Nate Oman | August 30, 2006
I spent most of grade school attending the remedial classes for the learning disabled because I was, well, learning disabled.
Nate Oman | August 29, 2006
Nate Oman | August 29, 2006
What follows is a summary of some of my research notes. I have been reading Puritan legal history of late, looking for ideas and ways of thinking about Mormon legal history.
Nate Oman | August 28, 2006
Nate Oman | August 24, 2006
Nate Oman | August 24, 2006
Driving to work today, I had an odd epiphany. It occurred to me that there is an odd symmetry between the danger that “liberal” and “conservative” Mormons see in story telling.
Nate Oman | August 22, 2006
Nate Oman | August 19, 2006
Condorcet was a French social theorist in the opening decades of the 19th century and is credited with first discovering a paradox of majority voting that bears his name. Here is the paradox: Imagine that you have a group of three people (A,B, and C) who are voting on three different alternatives (X, Y, and [...]
Nate Oman | August 18, 2006
