Reason #55: Group Pressure in Mormonism

  An LDS doctrine that had always strongly appealed to me was free agency:  that God respects our right to choose, and that it is our ethic to likewise respect unconstrained choice for all people.  That notion was badly shaken when I was first...

First Reader Review of The Mormon Mirage, 3rd Edition

I am humbled and honored by the first review of The Mormon Mirage, as posted on Barnes & Noble: The Mormon Mirage Clears the Air  by Thresholds Reader Rating:  See Detailed Ratings March 28, 2009: When I began The Mormon Mirage by Latayne Scott I had very little...

From Non-Fiction to Fiction

One of the reasons I am beginning to write fiction is perhaps what government officials might call “plausible deniability.” (smile). In non-fiction, even if it is written only third-person, the very inclusion of ideas means that you are giving them some...

Reason #54: The LDS Depreciation of Bible Translation

  Second Nephi 29:3 mocks the trust of the Bible believer by having him say mindlessly, “A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible,” with the Lord responding by calling such a man a “fool” (v. 6). Actually,...

Reason #53: The warfare in the Book of Mormon

  The Book of Mormon raises questions when we examine its accounts of warfare. Where is evidence of the great mounds of weapons, the steel-smelting operations necessary for their production, and the warfare technologies described in this book?  LDS...