Latayne C Scott

Reason #34: Unreliability of Book of Mormon Witnesses

Many Mormons seek solace in the thought that there were enough reliable witnesses to substantiate the Book of Mormon"'s validity…

16 years ago

Reason #33: Who could verify Egyptian translations in 1828?

  Martin Harris did indeed as Mormons claim take a copy of some of the characters Joseph Smith said he…

16 years ago

Reason #32: Joseph Smith’s Imaginative Abilities

  Smith's wife Emma once said that she believed God dictated the Book of Mormon because her husband could hardly…

16 years ago

Reason #31: Joseph Smith’s Story Is Not Unique

In 1837 an illiterate youth named James Colin Brewster said that at age ten, he, like Joseph Smith, had been…

16 years ago

Iron Sharpens Iron Broadcast

Last week I was interviewed on WNYG in New York on the "Iron Sharpens Iron" broadcast. One of the most…

16 years ago

Writing Acronyms

Writers have their own set of abbreviations (especially in this age of Twitter -- find me there under "Latayne.") The…

16 years ago

Reason #30: Questionable Biblical Interpretation

Why must uniquely- LDS Biblical interpretation be rejected? Because a supposedly Biblical doctrine that is based on possibly-plausible possible exceptions…

16 years ago

Should a Christian Novelist Engage Postmodernism’s Ideas and Techniques?

In our NovelMatters discussion, we seven novelists -- and several guests -- sparred about whether or how to engage postmodernism…

16 years ago

Reason #29: The Mormon Gossip Circuit

Reason #29 is from guest blogger Michelle Scott (no relation) Privacy, to me, is very important. In Mormonism, there is…

16 years ago

Reason #28: Gods

So why would I want to return to a system of thought that would turn my attention toward -- and…

16 years ago