Most journalists writing about important medical science do not have the background necessary to notice methodological problems with studies. I will therefore be tweeting brief analyses of significant papers when I read them for my own research. I chose twejm as a play on the New England Journal of Medicine, the premier US medical journal.

In Reeve and Parshall, eds., Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2010), 365-71.

This paper, paired with a paper by Jonathan Stapley on Mormon adoption theology after 1844, provides the contexts and meanings for the distinctive early Mormon rituals of spiritual adoption. In abbreviated form it is included in chapter 8 of In Heaven As It Is on Earth. The two papers, with a co-written introduction, are slated for publication in the Journal of Mormon History in 2011.

Mormon Metaphysics discussion of the essay on Joseph Smith’s Egyptian project and the quest for pure language.

for “Joseph (Smith) in Egypt: Babel, Hieroglyphs, and the Pure Language of Eden.”
(History publications page)

for “The Translator and the Ghostwriter: Joseph Smith and W.W. Phelps.”
(History publications page)

Mormon Times reportage from a speech on ways nineteenth-century Americans used martyrdom.