Time to resurrect an old feature, last seen in 2004 here and there. Every blog needs an "around the blogs" feature, I think. I'm not as comprehensive as John C. or as snarky as Steve or as irreverent as the anonymous Snark Committee, but worth reading nonetheless, I hope.
At T&S, Nate gives an etymological argument that Mormonism equals Friendship. It's an odd argument, but it gets to a nice conclusion: We are friendly, aren't we? Perhaps the banner of Mormonism should be "Liberty, Hierarchy, Fraternity." Freedom, friendship, and the chain of command.
At LDSLF (aka LDLF), RT (aka JNS) posted his take on Bushman versus Brodie. In good contrarian form, he favors Brodie: While Brodie admittedly engaged in speculation and was sometimes less than demanding of her evidence, her prose created a vivid, muscular, lifelike Joseph. RT notes that Bushman offers some fine scholarship, but faults him for offering without comment an un-self-critical Joseph, for failing to conduct a critical analysis of Joseph's visionary experiences, and for chronicling the events of Joseph's life rather than for (speculatively) plumbing the depths of Joseph's personality. RT's post is well worth reading.
BT has been kicking around evolution, most recently in a post by Clark examining Why Don't People Accept Evolution? Some do, some don't. Not much of a middle ground on this one. Try this post at LDSSR for more info on the topic.
Finally, go read this fine post at Mormanity. Jeff's advice: [L]et us support and nurture every marriage among us and help our members and their non-member spouses, if such be the case, find joy and fellowship in our midst. More fellowship and less judgmentalism would do us all some good.
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