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	<title>Faith-Promoting Rumor</title>
	
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	<description>Exploring Mormon Thought, Culture, and Texts</description>
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		<title>The Value of an Outsider’s Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/05/the-value-of-an-outsiders-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/?p=7189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago I was asked to accompany an investigator to church.We showed up a few minutes early and sat in the chapel. On the way to church, this investigator explained that he had never been to a Christian service before. He seemed quite eager to take in the experience. After I briefly introduced what takes place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring the Iconic Nature of the Book of Mormon: Part IIa – Manuscripts and Editions of the Book of Mormon</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/05/exploring-the-iconic-nature-of-the-book-of-mormon-part-iia-manuscripts-and-editions-of-the-book-of-mormon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 19:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MormonDeadhead</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/?p=7191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I introduced two lines of questioning that Timothy Beal has raised in his book The Rise and Fall of the Bible concerning biblical texts. Part of Beal&#8217;s intent in writing is to introduce the reader to how a bunch of disparate religious writings came to be known as &#8220;The Bible.&#8221; Two main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Priesthood, Women, and Non-Agency</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/05/priesthood-women-and-non-agency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/05/priesthood-women-and-non-agency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 06:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jupiterschild</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/?p=7182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two anecdotes: 1) Recently our bishop was teaching an Aaronic Priesthood lesson to a small group of young men that included a newly ordained deacon, the only deacon in the ward and the de facto president of the quorum. The earnest (and highly educated) bishop was zeroing in on the deacon, explaining that as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boat, Bible; Ship, Scripture</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/04/boat-bible-ship-scripture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/04/boat-bible-ship-scripture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/?p=7168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[*follow-up to this. Three vociferous cheers for Old Joe and his Indian Bible notwithstanding, a lot of what the Book of Mormon says about colonization and colonialization is liable to make current readers squeamish. After all, it has been some time since the president of the United States, for instance, was systematically removing Native Americans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scripture Studies and Theory</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/04/scripture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TT</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/?p=7158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the arrival of Salt Press at the Maxwell Institute, we have finally entered an era of &#8220;theory&#8221; as part of mainstream LDS scripture studies. At the same time, we LDS have not fully processed the moves made in biblical studies. There was a short spurt of LDS feminist criticism in the 1990&#8242;s, but this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring the Iconic Nature of the Book of Mormon: Part I, Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/04/exploring-the-iconic-nature-of-the-book-of-mormon-part-i-introduction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/04/exploring-the-iconic-nature-of-the-book-of-mormon-part-i-introduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MormonDeadhead</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/?p=7132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In his recent book The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book, Timothy Beal offers an insightful and timely assessment of what he calls the “the iconic cultural meaning of the Bible.” [1]  Beal proposes two main arguments in his work. First, that “there never has been a time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Inscription Proves Book of Mormon True, Completely Reconfigures Field of Mormon Studies and the Place of Apologetics</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/04/ancient-inscription-proves-book-of-mormon-true-completely-reconfigures-field-of-mormon-studies-and-the-place-of-apologetics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theyellowdart</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/?p=7104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is providential that at almost the exact same time that a recently discovered letter by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche — brought to my knowledge by Jacob at BCC — was brought to light allegedly proving Christianity false once and for all, another, even more remarkable letter from ancient Jerusalem was discovered that has convinced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the Ivory Ceiling</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/03/breaking-the-ivory-ceiling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/03/breaking-the-ivory-ceiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smallaxe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/?p=7068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a LDS studying religion, it&#8217;s not uncommon to hear the claim that Mormons have a hard time getting hired in religious studies departments; especially if they study Mormonism. Before 6 or so years ago there were 3 LDSs I am aware of that had a tenured (or tenure track) position in a religious studies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An (Updated) Bible Dictionary?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/03/an-updated-bible-dictionary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/03/an-updated-bible-dictionary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2013 Scriptures]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/?p=7028</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me just say upfront that I don’t have a problem in theory with the idea of a Bible dictionary accompanying the LDS version of the scriptures as a study help for members. Reading the Bible in English (or any other modern language for that matter) for devotional purposes these days presents enormous interpretive challenges, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Gamgee and the Relief Society</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/03/sam-gamgee-and-the-relief-society/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/03/sam-gamgee-and-the-relief-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bored in Vernal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Gamgee and the Relief Society[1] Whenever I watch the film version of the Lord of the Rings, it strikes me that Sam, Frodo’s gardener, is the real hero of the story. Although Frodo is the protagonist, the ring-holder, the champion who saves Middle-Earth, Sam was the one who stood strong when the going was [...]]]></description>
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