In this weeks Sunday School lesson we will be discussing Noah. I love this story. My second child is named Shem. It is one of the classics. The class I teach is […]
A New Mission: Caring for the Poor and the Needy.
David H. Sundwall (my favorite bloggernacle Republican) reports over at A Soft Answer that the church will be revising the three-fold mission of the Church. It will be changing from the three […]
A Glimpse of Public Reason: Lincoln and Rawls (Mormon Rawls Project)
Author’s note: I originally posted this at Approaching Justice. The talk by Elder Oaks has gotten me thinking about the implications of public reason on the SSM debate and the use of […]
The Mormon Rawls Project: The Original Position and the Council in Heaven I
Authors note: The following is the second in my Mormon Rawls Project Series. It is also the expansion of my first ever post here at FPR. When Rawls develops the concept which […]
The Mormon Rawls Project: Introduction
John Rawls is a prominent 20th century philosopher. While his work is well respected, it is also a great source of controversy. Much of this controversy is rooted in the fact that […]
The Good Samaritan as The Other
The parable of the Good Samaritan is well known and much beloved. The image of the caring Samaritan tending to the bruised and bleeding traveler speaks to the goodness of mankind; despite […]
Schumpeter and the Future?
Brad Delong argues that while dead almost six decades, Joseph Schumpeter’s economics are to the 21st century what Keynes was to the 20th century.[1] This is interesting to me because Schumpeter seemed […]
From Missionaries to Salesmen
While trying to put together some posts, a colleague sent me an interesting article in The New York Times about Mormon young men selling for Pinnacle Security. Having lived and worked quite […]
A Socialist Vision for Today
The prospect of socialism is a dim one. The demise of Soviet style socialism/communism was followed by the decline of welfare-liberalism in the west (particularly in the United States and the United […]
Tank Man: Our unknown hero
It has been 20 years since the brave protestors at Tiananmen Square were crushed by the Chinese regime. They wanted democracy. Instead the one-party machine swept in with tanks. Not sure if […]
“By Night in Chile”: Reflections on a novel by Roberto Bolano
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano is not so much about Chile and its troubled past, as it is about Chile’s intellectual elite. While the focus of the stories is […]
A Glimpse of Public Reason: Lincoln and Rawls
It is often noted that the late American political philosopher John Rawls had a great admiration for President Abraham Lincoln. While people often express admiration for Lincoln, there are many theoretical similarities […]
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