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Climbing the Rainbows

Climbing the Rainbows is a long-form essay series about the intellectual foundations of LDS thought, treated from the perspective of philosophy, neuroscience, and the history of science.

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  1. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    CTR GREATEST HITS: The Path Dependence of Revelation (2 June 2023) (opens the original)

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    You can listen to an audio version of this essay by viewing it on the Substack app. See all the essays, organized chronologically and thematically, in the table of contents.Hello again, and hello to this essay, the third in our greatest hits album. We’re doing some greatest hits on the way to a brand-new sequence of essays on the priesthood, which will begin in January 2027. For now we just get to enjoy some of the sweet, sweet essayistic music of the past.Today’s number is “<a href="https:

  2. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    CTR GREATEST HITS: Rewriting Galileo's Two Books (8 December 2023) (opens the original)

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    You can listen to an audio version of this essay by viewing it on the Substack app. See all the essays, organized chronologically and thematically, in the table of contents.Hello again, for another entry in our catalogue of greatest essay hits of the past four years or so. Last week we covered what we’re doing, and in an honorable fashion we mentioned those essays that were good but that didn’t q

  3. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    CTR GREATEST HITS: Church History and the Tyson Zone (8 March 2024) (opens the original)

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    You can listen to an audio version of this essay by viewing it on the Substack app. See all the essays, organized chronologically and thematically, in the table of contents.Welcome back to Climbing the Rainbows, the only LDS essay series to undercook the onions. I’m glad you’re here. You might not be.We’ve just birthed ourselves back into this cruel world after more than a year away, and rather than get back into new material immediately, I’m stalling by re-posting old essays. I’

  4. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    Hello boys—I'm BAAAACCCCCKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!! (opens the original)

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    Well hello again! It’s nice to see you. And you, and you, and all the five others of you who still remember this publication. Thank you all for coming.Yes, it’s true: Climbing the Rainbows has return… Read more

  5. Issue · Aug 7, 2026

    Climbing the Rainbows Returns (opens the original)

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    Climbing the Rainbows returns, September 2026. Read more

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