What I Write and Why I Write It

17 years ago

I have been active on the HBO Big Love message boards recently, and one person who identified himself as a…

Blogging, Big Love and “Big Talk”

17 years ago

What an unusual week for me.  Last Sunday night the HBO series Big Love depicted for the first time in…

Reason #51: Latter-day Revelation Didn’t Create Unity

17 years ago

  Whatever its effects upon the religious world, Mormonism has not, as it originally purposed, done away with religious division.…

Reason #50: The Book of Mormon and Polygamy

17 years ago

  Probably one of the hottest areas of controversy rages around the Book of Mormon"'s teachings on polygamy. Those unfamiliar…

Reason #49: The Proxy Baptisms of Jews

17 years ago

An ethnic group which has done public battle with the LDS Church is Judaism. According to Richard and Joan Ostling,…

Reason #48: The Love of God (from Susan Storm Smith)

17 years ago

  FROM SUSAN STORM SMITH:    As I was in Bible study this morning, the most beautiful thought came to me…

Those horrible Puritans?

17 years ago

A recent column  by prominent LDS writer Orson Scott Card (known best by us non-Mormons as an outstanding sci-fi writer)…

Reason #47: The Monitoring of Church Members and Ex-Members

17 years ago

   The LDS Church once instituted an organization "“ more of a practice, really "“ called the "Strengthening the Church…

Reason #46 — Big Love and the Introduction of Polygamy into American Culture

17 years ago

  Big Love, indeed.  Mormonism, in all its incarnations, institutionalized what many people see as the inevitable successor to legalized…

Reason #45: Joseph Smith’s Boasting about Languages

17 years ago

  On one occasion Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the LDS religion,  quoted from seventeen different languages (not always…