Governments impose taxes in order to raise revenue that, in turn, funds government function and services.[fn1] In designing a tax system, tax theorists generally try to create provisions that will raise revenue without significantly altering taxpayers’ economic choices. That is,…
Category: Guest Bloggers
In Praise of the Administrative Function of the Prophet
When I was just off my mission, President Hinckley announced that, in answer to a question about how to provide temples to smaller LDS communities, he had been inspired to construct smaller temples. There was a palpable sense of excitement…
Summer 2011 Syllabus
Part of my job as a law professor is to model to students what a transactional attorney does. As part of that, I include in my syllabus a list of things media that they ought to consume in order to…
Times & Seasons Welcomes Sam Brunson
Times & Seasons is excited to introduce Sam Brunson as our latest guest blogger. Sam grew up in the suburbs of San Diego and served a Brazilian mission what seems like a millennium ago. He went to BYU as an…
Times & Seasons Welcomes Brad Strum
Times & Seasons is excited to introduce Brad Strum as a guest blogger. Brad lives and works in the DC area as an economist, where he has been since earning a Ph.D. in economics at Princeton University. Before grad school,…
Faith, Philosophy, Scripture: A Typology of Readers
Home Waters: Soul as Watershed
Home Waters: Overview
Times & Seasons Welcomes Ralph Hancock
While Rana Lehr-Lehnardt’s guest run continues, Times & Seasons is happy to introduce our next guest blogger, Ralph Hancock. Ralph is a long-time professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Calvin and the Foundations…
Times & Seasons Welcomes Rana Lehr-Lehnardt
Times & Seasons is happy to introduce our newest guest blogger, Rana Lehr-Lehnardt. Rana is a mother of three who just finished up her first semester teaching at the University of Missouri at Kansas City Law School. After spending several…
T&S Introduces Dane Laverty as its Newest Blogger
Almost two months to the day that we invited him to guest, Dane Laverty has continued to blog with us at a prodigious pace. We are now happy to report that he is a guest no longer, but will be…
Letting Go
Sacred Spaces, Holy Ground
Vanity, What Is It Good For?
Dinner, Old Testament Style
Middle Eastern foods are my favorite. So at the risk of totally overstepping the bounds as a T&S guest blogger, I offer the following to enhance one’s study of the Old Testament and further an appreciation of ancient culture. May…
Light Thoughts
Some Thoughts on How to Approach a New “Place”
I reside in Alexandria, Virginia, about 10 miles south of Washington, DC.
Times & Seasons Welcomes Jayme Blakesley
Times & Seasons is pleased to welcome our newest guest blogger, Jayme Blakesley.
Marriage and gender roles
I suppose we have Mark Sanford to thank for the recent frenzy of articles about marriage (or was it Jon and Kate?). There’s Caitlin Flanagan’s piece in Time, Aaron Traister at Salon.com, the Women’s Day/AOL living survey, Amanda Fortini wondering…
The Question of Pacifism
I’m not, by nature, a pacifist.