Latayne C Scott

Wondering about The Mormon Mirage

Zondervan and Harper-Collins have provided an easy way for you to browse inside my book, The Mormon Mirage:  A Former…

15 years ago

FREE DOWNLOADS

Even if you didn’t win a prize from my Facebook party, you still are entitled to these free downloads: A…

15 years ago

Reason #103: Mormon Myths about Bible Translations and Transmission

A new book just published by Zondervan, entitled Busted: Exposing Popular Myths about Christianity, has one of the best explanations,…

15 years ago

Reason #102: New Discoveries of Possible Sources for Book of Mormon scenes

I recently became aware of a massive new book that has carefully documented some possible sources for scenes from the…

15 years ago

Reason #101: The LDS Church itself doesn’t sponsor research into Masonic-LDS Connections

Recently Sunstone, an independent Mormon studies magazine, announced its Mapping Mormon Issues Project, which aims to make available in multiple…

15 years ago

Reason #100: Masonic Symbols in LDS Temples

Traditional Masonic symbols are rampant in older LDS temples. Representations of beehives, heavenly bodies, clasped hands, the All Seeing Eye,…

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Reason #99: Non-Divine Masonic Source of LDS Temple Ceremonies

Any Mason who reads even such an abbreviated account of the temple ceremony as I have outlined in The Mormon…

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Reason #98: Changes in LDS Doctrine regarding Freemasonry

Alexander Campbell once noted that the Book of Mormon managed to comment on a surprisingly large percentage of the religious…

15 years ago

Dan Brown’s Lost Symbol and Latter-day Cipher: The Masonic Connection

When I began writing Latter-day Cipher (Moody, 2009), one of the themes I wanted to explore was the uneasy relationship…

15 years ago

Reason #97: Mormonism and Masonry — Denied at first

Joseph Smith, founder of the LDS Church “became a first-degree Mason on the night of the installation, and the next…

15 years ago