A few months ago, Sunstone had an article on LDS apologetics that was widely discussed at various blogs. The basic theme of the article was that those writing LDS apologetics are too critical and take criticism too personally. And why would a religious person would want to do apologetics? Aren’t faith and belief enough? The author saw three groups: Believers, who would believe what they believe regardless of any scientific evidence (often adopting readings that were incompatible with science). Critics, who would disbelieve Mormonism regardless of any evidence, since it would always fall short. Then there was this crazy group in the middle that kept trying to reconcile science and Mormonism, using each to interpret the other.

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Hi! Welcome back, Dear Reader, to the Tales of the Zeitgeist. Sit back with wonderment for this week’s extravaganza!

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Editor’s Introduction by Dave
Gays and the Church by Blaine
The Joseph Seminar, Part 2 by Justin Butterfield
Weekly Zeitgeist by Steve

I’d like to welcome a new contributor this week, Blaine from the group blog Approaching Zion. He will be posting on Law and Policy (a broad area!) and he jumped in with both feet on his first post. At the same time, veteran contributor Ronan has announced plans that will take him to England for the summer. He won’t be posting much until his triumphant return in the fall, when we will expect a full report.

To track these and other changes, I have finally posted an About BT page that identifies regular, irregular, and guest contributors, and also gives links to each contributor’s personal weblog or online bio.

Sorry for the late posting, friends. But it has been a darned busy week in the Bloggernacle!

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