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		<title>The Limits of Prophetic Fallibility</title>
		<link>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2013/03/the-limits-of-prophetic-fallibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[J. Max Wilson has written an excellent post on the limits of the LDS doctrine of prophetic fallibility at his site Sixteen Small Stones. It is absolutely true that the church does not believe that its prophets and apostles are infallible. There is no infallibility doctrine. The prophets are undeniably human beings and subject to normal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contributing Author, Paul A. Rahe, writes about The Perils of Intellectual Apostasy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was an undergraduate at Cornell , then Yale and a graduate student at Oxford, then Yale once again, the American university was an exceedingly lively place in which students were encouraged to explore a diversity of perspectives. The people in charge were, by and large, New Deal liberals &#8212; moderate in manner, open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homosexual Marriage, Homosexual Parenting and Adoption: What We Often Neglect  to Say</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall France’s Chief Rabbi, Gilles Bernheim, published a courageous and incisive argument against homosexual marriage and adoption.  In December Pope Benedict publicly praised the Rabbi’s essay in the strongest terms.  That essay has now been published by First Things magazine somewhat abridged and lightly edited.  It was translated from the French by Ralph Hancock, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Common Ground: An Invitation to Continue the Hancock/Dehlin Discussion</title>
		<link>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2013/02/the-common-ground-an-invitation-to-continue-the-hancockdehlin-discussion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Dehlin asks Professor Hancock if he can sympathize with Mormon Progressives who have brought up controversial statements or positions of past church leaders in an honest effort to understand the truth. Dehlin believes that Church leadership treated these members unfairly or even hostilely, in some cases. He asks Dr. Hancock if he can understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How does same-sex marriage hurt traditional marriage?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2013/02/how-does-same-sex-marriage-hurt-traditional-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Williamson   The recent sea change regarding social acceptance of the idea of same-sex marriage (SSM) &#8212; and the influence this increasingly has had on a good number of active LDS members&#8217; views &#8212; has inspired me to commit a few thoughts to paper. I do not profess to be either an intellectual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ralph Hancock at First Things</title>
		<link>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2013/02/ralph-hancock-at-first-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JAC President Ralph Hancock has written a three-part series on what gay marriage reveals about Lockean conservatism. He writes: The limitation of this argument, however, is that it can never transcend its constructivist and utilitarian (not to say nihilist) premises.  It might show that it isuseful to be faithful in marriage (up to a point) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Matter of Pants: Feminism, Mormonism, and Gender Inequality in the Church — A JAC Symposium</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly, the Wear Pants to Church protest had zero effect in my Provo ward, and I have not heard how it went over elsewhere. (We welcome reports.) I long hesitated over whether it was worth the trouble to address it. Julie&#8217;s (my wife) inclination was certainly to ignore the &#8220;nonsense,&#8221; and I sympathized. But for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Religious Test&#8221; Screening at BYU</title>
		<link>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2012/10/the-religious-test-screening-at-byu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2012/10/the-religious-test-screening-at-byu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JAC President Ralph Hancock and Mormon Studies scholar Terryl Givens will be available for comments following a screening of the new documentary The Religious Test. The film, which features Hancock, focuses on Mormons in politics and the meaning of anti-Mormon sentiment in America. The film will be shown Friday Oct. 19 5:00-7:00 PM in B190 of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Constitution: Whatever the US Supreme Court Says it is?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2012/10/the-constitution-whatever-the-us-supreme-court-says-it-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2012/10/the-constitution-whatever-the-us-supreme-court-says-it-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of Alaska Anchorage instructor and JAC Contributor Guy F. Burnett delivered the UAA Constitution Day lecture. Burnett uses the infamous Kelo v. New London case to highlight the importance of constitutional originalism. Listen to or download the lecture here.]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Manliness and Mormon Men</title>
		<link>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2012/09/christian-manliness-and-mormon-men/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2012/09/christian-manliness-and-mormon-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brandon Dabling John Adams Center, Managing Editor &#160; Kristine Haglund, respected essayist and editor of Dialogue, has written a 1500-word article in which she, ambitiously, examines the link between the Mormon cultural phenomenon known as “Church Ball,” the tightly-knit LDS male community and Mormon men’s vehement opposition to homosexuality and gay marriage. In “Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney Roundtable at SquareTwo</title>
		<link>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2012/08/romney-roundtable-at-squaretwo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2012/08/romney-roundtable-at-squaretwo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ralph C. Hancock &#160; Squaretwo, an online journal in which faithful Mormons discuss issues of humanity and society, has just published a new issue including a multi-faceted roundtable on the political significance of Mitt Romney’s Mormonism (to which I have contributed). &#160; Besides announcing this publication to our JAC readers, I wanted to start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney in France</title>
		<link>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2012/08/romney-in-france/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Earl H. Fry Brigham Young University, Professor     Mitt Romney and I were missionaries whose service overlapped in the French Mission.  At the time of Mitt’s car accident, described in this New York Times article, I was working in the Latin Quarter in Paris. This became &#8220;ground zero&#8221; when the historic riots broke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing to Apologize For (Part Two)</title>
		<link>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2012/08/nothing-to-apologize-for-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2012/08/nothing-to-apologize-for-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ralph Hancock   I argued in Part I that the move from “apologetics” to “Mormon Studies” requires a bracketing of truth claims that may serve legitimate scholarly purposes, but that carries with it certain significant risks.  The New Mormon Studies presents orthodoxy as stifling and itself as intellectually liberating, but it risks purveying a more subtle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal Authenticity – Responses</title>
		<link>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2012/07/liberal-authenticity-responses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ralph Hancock   It has already — shockingly — been a couple of months since I promised to respond to some responses to my &#8220;Mormonism and Liberal Authenticity.&#8220; I have finally freed up the time to draft some thoughts — just in case some of you are still waiting (in fact a couple have told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intellectuals in the Public Square</title>
		<link>http://www.johnadamscenter.com/2012/07/intellectuals-in-the-public-square/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 06:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JAC Director Peter Lawler writes at Big Think about the role of the intellectual in today&#8217;s society: Arguably the truth is that the arguments for and against atheism—and universal determinism—are pretty much the same as they were in Socrates’ time. Arguably, the biggest change since the time of Socrates is the idea of the free [...]]]></description>
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