The Spinozist is now hosted here. Please update your links and bookmarks! In the end, the allure of

Required to be in the car during today, I had the good fortune to notice two Mormon connections on

In a couple of interesting posts (here and here), RoastedTomatoes uses responses of President Joseph

Q: How does Justin Butterfield, proprietor and editor of Mormon Wasp, know so much about Mormon

A 'newsreader' is an application or website that allows users to 'subscribe' to any

After referring RoastedTomatoes to two previous posts of mine, his response made me wonder if

I know this title is unoriginal, but I decided to hijack it for my present snarky purpose of busting

In the spirit of communal self-deprecation, I offer the following conjecture. Every participant in

I am no political scientist, but it seems to me that to a large extent politics consists of arguments

Drawing upon uniquely Mormon resources provided in Alma and the Book of Moses, J. Nelson-Seawright (

I used to use Bloglines to subscribe to feeds of blogs I wanted to keep up with, but I switched to

If you noticed this old post of mine, or my comments on this thread, you may have guessed that I am

I don't watch sports hardly at all—they're more fun to play than to watch. But I do try to

A recent comment in which John F. playfully proclaimed himself “the chiasmus Nazi” renewed my

Encountering some concerns of mine about apologetics (here and here), David J is moved to ask if I

If Julie doesn't want 200 comments on her post on women's authority, I'll take them. (

Recently published: Studies presented at the conference, for example, produced evidence that emotions

I recently said that “there may have been a trend towards leaving the sort of work FARMS does out of

Jared has a nice post on the changing publication history of a very interesting quote from Brigham

This week the Bush administration executes a blitz aimed at turning a political liability into a club

An unfortunate and unprecedented pair of back-to-back trips: on the heels of last week's travel,

In a recent post that took Alma's encounter with Korihor as a springboard, my discussion of the

I arrived in our nation's capital yesterday evening. Unlike the iconic Mr. Smith, I didn't

I wonder, might FARMS in some instances do more harm than good? I mention two potential areas of

While I'm a Republican, I'm not a big fan of corruption. Nor, as I have previously stated, am

Suggesting a resonance with the Intelligent Design approach to biology, Matt Evans mentions

Blake has offered the first step of his planned argument, asking for more clarity on my assumptions

As several posts have gone by on issues related to free will, and the questions of whether and how to

Blake has steered the conversation on free will to the nature of morality, and the question of what

As an immediate follow-up to my discussion of scenario formulation and selection, in addressing