A group of readers are discussing The Ignorant Schoolmaster on the Feast Upon the Word Blog. Anyone is welcome to read along and comment or ask questions. There is a pdf of the book free online.
The Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology accepted Joe’s paper for their 2010 conference. It will be in March at UVU.
The conference season draws nearer! Joe’s paper proposal for Mormon History Association (on Orson Pratt and the D&C) was accepted. The conference is in May in Independence, Missouri. (Karen is hoping the due date for the baby still allows at least Joe to be able to go!) But both of us (Joe and Karen) are going to write the papers anyway, and see how things look when the date is closer. It looks like someone could read the papers for us, if necessary. It’s exciting news, though. It would be the first time either Joe or Karen has done something with MHA.
Joe finished a complete re-write of his book on typology this last week and sent it off to the publisher. He hasn’t been guaranteed a contract to publish it but things are looking good. We’ll keep you updated!
For family and friends who like to keep up on Joe’s projects, I thought I’d let you know Joe updated his writing projects page recently. The most exciting project right now is that a publishing company contacted him about his book on typology in the Book of Mormon that he wrote several years ago. He has been reworking it over the last few months and plans to have a new draft complete by Christmas! 
-Karen
Post on Joseph Smith lesson 47: “‘Praise to the Man’: Latter-day Prophets Bear Witness of the Prophet Joseph Smith”
This is an excerpt from Joe’s post at the Feast Upon the Word Blog:
The last lesson in the manual, particularly because it records the words of everyone but Joseph Smith, more or less speaks for itself. It is worth saying, though, that it functions as a kind of compendium of all the major “uses” to which we put Joseph Smith as Latter-day Saints, from “Joseph the foreordained” (section one of the “Testimonies” half of the lesson) through “the Joseph Smith of the First Vision” (section two) and “Joseph Smith the structurally incapable of having done what he did” (section three) and “Joseph the prophetically unique” (section four) to “Joseph Smith as a global figure of importance” (section five). Because I’m not particularly keen on finishing off this whole series of lesson notes (two years!) with a critical reflection on our own reception of Joseph Smith, I’ll end instead with my own testimony, for whatever it’s worth. Read the rest of this entry » at feastuponthewordblog.org
Post on Joseph Smith lesson 46: “The Martyrdom: The Prophet Seals His Testimony with His Blood”
The excerpt from Joe’s post at the Feast Upon the Word Blog:
A remarkably concise “From the Life” section opens this lesson. It covers the basics concerning the martyrdom. But there is, of course, much more to say. Allow me, on this point, just to recommend pages 537-561 of Richard Bushman’s Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. And with that, let me move on to the “Teachings.” Read the rest of this entry » at feastuponthewordblog.org
