http://squaretwo.org SquareTwo Journal en-us Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:21:17 -0800 http://squaretwo.org/squaretwoarchives.html#issues We know you are all waiting for the Spring 2010 of SquareTwo to come out . . . it will be out in April, and will be well worth the wait! In the meantime, we have two new comments posted on past articles. Ryan Whitaker comments on Hardy's Summer 2009 article on feminism; Christian Buckley comments on Farnsworth's Fall 2009 first place prize-winning essay on heterosexual monogamous marriage. Comments are located below the original articles. Enjoy! Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:21:17 -0800 RSSPECT-001042593 http://squaretwo.org/Sq2ArticleWRIFarewell.html#wripetition Scheerer/Vaggalis/Vranes comment on the closure of the WRI and include a link to a time-sensitive online petition; Richard Chun-ling Chiu comments on Richard Bushman's essay in the Summer issue. Comments are posted below the original essays. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:23:17 -0800 RSSPECT-00984861 http://squaretwo.org/squaretwoarchives.html#fall2009 Raymond Swenson comments on Leonhardt's "The Botany of Marriage," and Chad Emmett and Emily Belanger comment on "A Farewell Salute to the Women's Research Institute." Comments are posted underneath the original article. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:30:06 -0800 RSSPECT-00980555 http://squaretwo.org/squaretwoarchives.html#fall2009 The Fall 2009 issue of SquareTwo is now online, and includes "Reflections on Politics and Religion" by Robert S. Wood; the Sorensen Essay Contest Winners where LDS young adults defend heterosexual marriage without invoking LDS religious scripture so that they may express their views more openly and persuasively in the public square; a review of Elder John Carmack's recent address to the J. Reuben Clark Law Society on the value of an educated women; and a farewell salute to the Women’s Research Institute of Brigham Young University. Enjoy! Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:36:45 -0800 RSSPECT-00975776 http://squaretwo.org/Sq2ArticleDecker2012.html#comments Ryan Decker wrote that the LDS Church does not oppose civil unions; Kenneth Prigmore disagrees. The two men discuss the issue in the comments section beneath Decker's latest article on the prospects of Romney and Hunstman in 2012. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:44:55 -0700 RSSPECT-00938502 http://squaretwo.org/Sq2ArticleBushmanIllAtEase.html#comments N. Wayne Eschler weighs in on the debate over capitalism; you'll find it as the 4th comment beneath the Bushman essay at the link provided. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:28:19 -0700 RSSPECT-00937894 http://squaretwo.org/Sq2ArticleBushmanIllAtEase.html#comments "Capitalism is the fertile soil in which both the wheat and the tares grow higher than in any other soil. If the tares end up being more plentiful or higher than the wheat, is the soil to blame? What does it say about the wheat if it cannot compete with the tares when the going is good?" Pickering's remarks are the third comment posted below Bushman's essay. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:53:33 -0700 RSSPECT-00935032 http://squaretwo.org/squaretwoarchives.html#summer2009 Three new and insightful comments are now on-site; Jeff Kiser and Raymond Takashi Swenson comment on Richard Bushman's essay; Swenson also comments on "War and the Gospel." You can find these comments on the same pages as the essays on which they are commenting, and located right below them. Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:08:26 -0700 RSSPECT-00930705 http://squaretwo.org/squaretwoarchives.html#summer2009 The Summer 2009 issue of SquareTwo is out, featuring essays by Richard L. Bushman on "Being Ill at Ease in the World," Valerie M. Hudson on "The 4 May 2007 Statement of the LDS Church," Michael Hardy on "Give Feminism a Try," John Mark Mattox, Kerry Kartchner, and others on "War and the Gospel," and much more! Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:40:31 -0700 RSSPECT-00925973 http://squaretwo.org/Sq2AddlCommentarySherlock2.html#sherhertz Ben seems to think that I reject liberalism en masse. I do not. I believe that liberalism must be nested in an ambit of habits, virtues, and beliefs that cannot come from liberalism itself. Thu, 28 May 2009 22:08:00 -0700 RSSPECT-00893425 http://squaretwo.org/Sq2AddlCommentarySherlock2.html I am grateful to Ralph Hancock for engaging me in a thought-provoking set of comments. I believe our agreements dwarf our disagreements. Nevertheless, I am moved to say more. Wed, 13 May 2009 14:34:27 -0700 RSSPECT-00881540 http://squaretwo.org/Sq2AddlCommentarySherlock.html#hancock2 "Fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners." Now, that’s my kind of equality: an equal partnership in differentiated duties of eternal – and eternally reproductive -- consequence! Removed from such a rich and authoritative framework defining the duties of marital partnership, my worry is that "equality" too easily becomes a tool of rival "rights," that is, or selfish interests or of a blind quest for some formless and elusive individual fulfillment. Wed, 06 May 2009 23:14:47 -0700 RSSPECT-00875556 http://squaretwo.org/Sq2AddlCommentarySherlock.html Hudson asserts, "The Men Muffed It: How Men's Misunderstanding of the Telos of Marriage Imperils Its Future," and concludes, "Richard, Ben, Ralph--the gauntlet's down." Chiu states, "I find myself bemused by the rather tired state of the debate over homosexual marriage," and notes, "I'm troubled by the sense that we are being encouraged to regard the incubation of evil as a positive good" essential to our freedom. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:27:30 -0700 RSSPECT-00830118 http://squaretwo.org/squaretwoarchives.html#spring2009 A whole new issue for you to enjoy, with articles by James Faulconer on secularism, Russell Fox on Mormons in the public square, V.H. Cassler on marriage and the state, Richard Sherlock on same-sex marriage, Jack Mallard on McCarthy's The Road, and Lindsey Hulet on Big Love. Special feature--Ben Hertzberg offers a rebuttal to Sherlock, and Ralph Hancock responds to Hertzberg. Check it out today! Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:34:17 -0700 RSSPECT-00819243 http://squaretwo.org/Sq2ArticleHancockProp8.html I thus argue that either our religious and moral tradition must be renewed and invigorated to provide what it once provided, i.e., the ambit within which a truly humane and nested liberalism can be sustained--or we will end up with either nihilism on the one hand or statism on the other. Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:53:18 -0800 RSSPECT-00744388