Reason #59: LDS’s Exclusivistic Claim to Truth

16 years ago

  Of particular interest was my discovery of many people outside the Church who had exceptional powers, such as healing,…

Reason #58: LDS Leaders’ Linguistic Abilities

16 years ago

  After finishing graduate work in linguistics and education at BYU in 1976, I found professional work in the translation…

Reason #57: The Nature of LDS Missionary Lessons

16 years ago

When I began missionary service for the Church in 1962, I was given a "plan for teaching the Gospel" to…

Reason #56: The modern LDS leaders’ lack of foreknowledge

16 years ago

Some years earlier, the war in Vietnam had been gaining momentum and arousing greater domestic opposition.  As consternation grew in…

Reason #55: Group Pressure in Mormonism

16 years ago

  An LDS doctrine that had always strongly appealed to me was free agency:  that God respects our right to…

First Reader Review of The Mormon Mirage, 3rd Edition

16 years ago

I am humbled and honored by the first review of The Mormon Mirage, as posted on Barnes & Noble: The…

From Non-Fiction to Fiction

16 years ago

One of the reasons I am beginning to write fiction is perhaps what government officials might call "plausible deniability." (smile).…

Reason #54: The LDS Depreciation of Bible Translation

16 years ago

  Second Nephi 29:3 mocks the trust of the Bible believer by having him say mindlessly, "A Bible! A Bible!…

Reason #53: The warfare in the Book of Mormon

16 years ago

  The Book of Mormon raises questions when we examine its accounts of warfare. Where is evidence of the great mounds…

Reason #52: LDS Sources Enlist Unwilling “Advocates”

16 years ago

When I was a Mormon, I and other people told prospective Mormons that the Smithsonian Institute believed and supported Book…