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		<title>&#8220;What Think Ye of Christ?&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Twice in the past week, I have been asked, in essence, this very question, though not exactly as it is recorded in Matthew 22:42. Once the question came from a student of mine, a young person, unfamiliar with the Mormon church but filled with questions, a person generally uninterested in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=35786&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer and the Sovereignty of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] This is a sermon which I gave in sacrament meeting on January 1, 2012. It was the day after our third daughter, Alison, was baptized, and my parents and parents-in-law were in attendance, which all made for a wonderful occasion. I don&#8217;t think I would have done anything different with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=33057&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Christmas, Everyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This, or something very much like this, is perhaps my oldest Christmas memory. Also one of my best. Best wishes for a great holiday tomorrow. Filed under: Mormon<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=32274&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The (Not So) Radical(ly Conseravtive) Mormon Priesthood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] That Mormonism was at one time a radical movement which challenged dominant American liberal norms&#8211;most famously regarding marriage and sexuality, but also (and I think more importantly) regarding economics and government&#8211;is pretty well understood by most who have even a passing familiarity with Mormon history. (If that&#8217;s not you, see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=31856&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mormonism and Utopian Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell Arben Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] I don&#8217;t mean to make a habit of responding to Matt Bowman&#8217;s essays in The New Republic, if for no other reason than that the man&#8217;s scholarly chops and writing skills are both impressive and intimidating. Both those talents are fully on display in his latest piece, which thoughtfully postulates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=31015&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally Weighing in on the Jeffress-Romney Thing&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] (I&#8217;ve no deep interest in the whole current morass of Republican party politics and anti-Mormonism, partly because I&#8217;ve gone through the whole thing before, and partly because many others have weighed in with thoughts much better than my own. Still, last Friday I sent this editorial off to my local [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=30321&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uncle Buck Demonstrates the Wisdom of President Dalton&#8217;s Counsel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Elaine S. Dalton, speaking in this morning&#8217;s conference: &#8220;Fathers, if  your daughter isn&#8217;t back from her date on time, go get her!&#8221; I&#8217;ve been wanting to teach gospel principles through John Hughes&#8217;s films for my whole life long. Now, finally, the Young Women General President has given me the perfect opportunity to do so. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=29567&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Everything Wrong (Even What He Gets Right)</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/09/27/getting-everything-wrong-even-what-he-gets-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] The October 2011 issue of Harper&#8217;s Magazine features as its cover article a lengthy, provocative, at times insightful, but mostly wholly tendentious anti-Mormon screed by Chris Lehmann, entitled &#8220;Pennies from Heaven.&#8221; Lehmann&#8217;s thesis basically boils down to 1) Mormon doctrine conveys a particularly pure version of the &#8220;prosperity gospel,&#8221; in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=29242&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We Have Seen Strange Things To Day&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/09/25/we-have-seen-strange-things-to-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] I recently finished reading through the four canonical gospels. I didn&#8217;t embark on this scripture study project because the church is studying the New Testament in gospel doctrine class this year, but because, after having completed both another family and a personal read of the Book of Mormon, I thought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=29133&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reviving the Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] When I began my university education at nearly 25 years ago, Student Review, an independent, non-correlated, student-run newspaper at BYU, was a year old. I&#8217;d never heard of it before, but when walking through the parade of booths set up by clubs and other student organizations during Freshman Orientation, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&#038;blog=6576503&#038;post=29096&#038;subd=bycommonconsent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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