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A very interesting post at Mormon Matters, reviewing a 1989 book titled "Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up?" The book was written by an attorney who grew up a Jehovah's Witness, then became an Evangelical Christian. That lasted until he conducted a thorough reading the original writings of the pre-Nicene Church Fathers.

Between being out of town and the Fourth, it's been a slow couple of weeks here. Let's get July started with an Orson Scott Card column at the Mormon Times, "Mormon 'Tribe' Feels Like Home." OSC reflects on the fact that Utah seems like home to some Mormons who weren't born there and don't live there.

And that prof is ... Bart Ehrman, professor of religious studes at UNC-Chapel Hill. He's in the news in connection with the publication of his most recent book, Jesus, Interrupted. As reported at CNN, Prof. Ehrman's family won't talk to him about religion anymore.

To public life. Don't let American headlines fool you -- the global tide of faith is still coming in, according to the recently published God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith is Changing the World. The Religious Studies Center Blog provides a short review of the book.

This seems like a good post to highlight on Memorial Day: "I See Dead People," at Faithful Dissident. It is a straight-up piece by an author who holds some doubts about the LDS religion but no doubts about the afterlife, based in part on some personal experiences related in the post. Here is the first paragraph.