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	<description>Advancing healthy churches in Utah&#039;s unique cultural climate.</description>
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		<title>People of Paradox, IV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his book, People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture. (Oxford University Press, 2007), Terryl Givens identifies four areas of paradox within Mormonism that affect the practice and development of the cultural arts. The first is the tension between free agency and authoritarianism.  The second area of paradox is the relationship between holding truth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utahadvance.org/?p=467</link>
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		<title>People of Paradox, III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his book, People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture. (Oxford University Press, 2007), Terryl Givens identifies four areas of paradox within Mormonism that affect the practice and development of the cultural arts. The first is the tension between free agency and authoritarianism.  The second area of paradox is the relationship between holding truth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utahadvance.org/?p=463</link>
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		<title>People of Paradox, II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his book, People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture. (Oxford University Press, 2007), Terryl Givens identifies four areas of paradox within Mormonism that affect the practice and development of the cultural arts. The first is the tension between free agency and authoritarianism. Givens identifies moral agency &#8211; the right of each individual to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utahadvance.org/?p=454</link>
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		<title>People of Paradox, I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I continue to be impressed with the writings of Terryl Givens about Mormonism.  Givens writes as a faithful Latter-day Saint, but not as an apologist for the LDS cause as much as analyst of key issues in the Mormon experience.  Of course I don&#8217;t agree with Givens on everything, but his analysis is always through-provoking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utahadvance.org/?p=447</link>
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		<title>Signifying Sainthood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every religious, ethnic, or cultural group or sub-group adopts certain markers by which the group’s members can signify or announce their identity, both internally and externally.  The well-respected historian and observer of Mormonism Jan Shipps, in a published lecture called Signifying Sainthood (2002), reflects on “how Saints tell the world and each other who they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utahadvance.org/?p=428</link>
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		<title>New Church Multiplication Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Utah Church Multiplication Summit Thursday, May 20 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. At K2 the Church &#8211; 193 W. 2100 S., SLC Church planters and church multiplication leaders will gather for a time of strategic collaboration and prayer focused on the needs and opportunities of Utah.  Our purpose is to build relationships, share vision, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utahadvance.org/?p=377</link>
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		<title>New Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Utah Advance &#8211; the site is currently under construction, so check back often.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utahadvance.org/?p=1</link>
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		<title>The Culture-Forming Power of the Book of Mormon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My theme this month has been the relationship Latter-day Saints have with their formative scripture, the Book of Mormon. I believe the book exerts a powerful, culture-forming influence on every aspect of Mormon life. For instance, young LDS men are named Alma and Moroni after Book of Mormon characters. Thousands of Latter-day Saints have grown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utahadvance.org/?p=360</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Understanding the Book of Mormon&#8221; reviewed by FARMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wondering how long it would take for my book to be noticed by the professional LDS apologists, and what they would say about it. I just found the review by FARMS today. Here&#8217;s the link to FARMS Review of books. Scroll to the bottom of the page. The reviewer seems to completely miss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utahadvance.org/?p=365</link>
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		<title>The Book of Mormon and the Latter-day Saint Witness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my latest series of posts, I’ve been discussing how the Book of Mormon is used in Mormon life and culture – an expansion of chapter eight of my book Understanding the Book of Mormon. Previously I described the Book of Mormon’s evidential function: how the Book of Mormon catalyzes a self-validating spiritual experience that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utahadvance.org/?p=355</link>
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