Latayne C Scott

Reason #128: Vikings Can’t Prove Mormonism

Some LDS apologists are touting an archaeological excavation of a settlement at L'anse aux Meadow to try to draw a parallel…

15 years ago

Reason #127: LDS teachings about prayer

Joseph Smith taught that all forms of prayer were ineffective if they were not couched in the format of the…

15 years ago

Reason #126: A fictional account of losing faith in Mormonism

In the previous item on the "365 Reasons" blog I described the situation that caused me to lose faith in…

15 years ago

Reason #125: The Point of No Return in Deciding to Leave

The previous post used an analogy to describe the feelings that many have when discovering that Mormonism's claims of divine…

15 years ago

Reason #124: Emotional Impact of Discovery

When I spoke last fall at the Ex-Mormon Foundation's annual conference, I compared the shock of discovery that Mormonism was…

15 years ago

Writing begins with Noticing

Writing begins, I think, with the art of noticing. One of my earliest memories is this: I am standing at…

15 years ago

Reason #123: Eternal truth is…always true

About two months ago I sat at a restaurant with a college student who had grown up Mormon as she…

15 years ago

Believers’ Verse — and win a book

I bemoan the fact that if, as often said, poetry is the "stepchild of the arts,"  then Christian poetry is…

15 years ago

Reason #122: Because LDS history has been continually whitewashed

When I was a Mormon, the first of Joseph Smith's dozens of wives, Emma, was portrayed as his only wife.…

15 years ago

Reason #121: LDS politicians still believe they’ll save the US

Although I agree that somebody needs to step in and save the US government, I don't believe that the LDS…

15 years ago