Latayne C Scott

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

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

16 years ago

Reason #50: The Book of Mormon and Polygamy

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

16 years ago

Reason #49: The Proxy Baptisms of Jews

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

16 years ago

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

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

16 years ago

Those horrible Puritans?

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

16 years ago

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

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

16 years ago

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

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

16 years ago

Reason #45: Joseph Smith’s Boasting about Languages

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

16 years ago

Reason #44: The Whitewashing of LDS History

Mormons are taught that abstinence from tea, coffee, alcohol, and tobacco is essential for entrance into the celestial kingdom. If…

16 years ago

Koinonia Blog

I'm preparing a series of blog posts requested by Zondervan's Academic Blog, Koinonia which will appear in about a month.  I'm…

16 years ago