Reason #204: A response to an atheist’s question

Recently an intelligent and thoughtful ex-Mormon atheist asked a question. Briefly stated, he wanted to know why Christians would say a serial killer whose deathbed confession of Jesus could enter heaven, while a moral and decent atheist would go to hell. Here's how I...

Reason #89: LDS “scripture” scholarship

What is so amazing about Royal Skousen's “critical text” of the BofM published by Yale University Press? It's that Mormons are touting it as being “on a par with” the “critical texts” of the Bible — that is, a look at...

Reason #88: From “I Love Mormons” Blog

This is a marvelous hypothetical situation on an excellent blog called “I Love Mormons.”  It provoked a stimulating discussion there, with this scenario: What would happen if a 14-yr-old LDS kid from Mississippi suddenly showed up on the scene claiming he had received...

Reason #87: The Word of Wisdom–Part Two

Past Church leaders were adamant in their condemnation of the liquor and tobacco industries. The Word of Wisdom, according to its own admission, was given “in consequence of evils and designs which do and will exist in the minds of conspiring men” (89:4). Dr. Sperry,...

Reason #86: The Word of Wisdom Health Law–Part One

I won't argue with the Word of Wisdom’s condemnation of the addictive substance, alcohol. But in the Word of Wisdom its use is encouraged as an agent in washing the body. I am as much puzzled by this as by the Word of Wisdom’s advocating the use of tobacco on bruises,...