Well, plans for the weekend have suddenly become plans for tomorrow, so instead of writing a post tonight and tomorrow, I’ll do it over the weekend.  This thing will get kick-started, I promise.

I’d like to apologize for the strange and sometimes offensive spam that invaded the comments these past few days.  We have “Akismet,” the venerable spam filter plugin, running now, and it’s trapping spams faster than missionaries trap the obvious non-member at a sacrament meeting (and that’s fast, believe you me).  I bear the blame for the spam, because I didn’t help set up all the plugins right away.  Mea culpa.

I need to apologize for me, too.  I haven’t written a thing.  So, starting awfully soon, I’ll let fly with a post and we can get this show on the road.

Part 1: Motivation

I have a measure of respect for those who choose to write about Mormon doctrine, whether the aim is to critique it, teach something about it, or to just explore possibilities. I hope this style guide can increase the accuracy Mormonism is represented by non-Mormons and Mormons alike. I humbly suggest that both groups have room to improve. Read the rest of this entry »

I was looking for a book that would help give me a framework to understand Catholic objections to Mormon polygamy when polygamy is all over the Old Testament as a divinely sanctioned practice. The most comparable Mormon book is More Wives Than One by Kathryn Daynes. Read the rest of this entry »

What Binds Marriage? Roman Catholic Theology in Practice by Timothy J. Buckley Publisher: Continuum 1997

Dr. Timothy J. Buckley is a Redemptorist priest ordained in 1970. He has been involved in an on-going, multi-disciplinary project to study marital breakdown. His superiors encouraged him to seek theological reform based on findings. This book is a result and the theme is how to pragmatically deal with people who wish to remarry after a divorce, when to do so is considered on-going adultery based on a legalistic interpretation of Matt 19:6-10 or Mark 10:2-13. Read the rest of this entry »