The explosive news coverage of the polygamist sect in Texas, where male members consummated their marriages with minor children in the basement of their temple, can now be better understood in my new article, The Mormon Temple Ceremony, which has just been posted to...
LDS apologists of the lower echelons, with a get-out-of-jail-free card for anything they say (their statements aren't “official doctrine,”) often represent anyone whose opposes the LDS Church”‘s teachings as “heresy hunters” who...
When I wrote my book, Why We Left A Cult (Baker Books), I interviewed people who had been faithful members of religious organizations that the Christian world would call cults. The word “cult” has been used a lot in the media to refer to followers of...
Baptism for the Dead by Robert Irvine, Pocket Books, 1990 Reviewed by Orrin Judd www.brothersjudd.com Hard to Find, But Worth It I've long been of the opinion that the distinctive feature of the great hard-boiled private eye story is the hero's vulnerability. He's...
I have been called by a counselor who is dealing with some of the young women who were evacuated from the west Texas compound founded by convicted polygamist Warran Jeffs. Here are some observations regarding that group. I was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus...
