Reason #172: Packham’s Logic about LDS Book of Mormon Apologists

My atheist friend, Richard Packham, has an excellent online article that shows the shallowness of LDS arguments to support the Book of Mormon. Below, mostly in Packham's words, are some of the arguments he makes in his article: Most Mormon defenses of the authenticity...

When Your Book Acquires Personality

  Our daughter is a lovely, intelligent, spiritual, healthy, well-rounded young woman. It’s hard to believe that she had some major health problems when she was a child. When she was eight years old, she developed a rare malignant tumor, an eosinophilic...

How Deeply Satisfying. . .

How deeply satisfying it is, to have a teenager I've never met, who is touched by my book The Hinge of Your History: The Phases of Faith and makes her own T-shirt design based on the book. (It reads: From a Promise to Contradiction, then Resolution).

Reason #171: An Open Letter to the Mormon Church

Dear Mormon Church: I don't know whether to slap you, or to thank you for launching my publishing career. Sincerely, Latayne For more information, see The Mormon Mirage 3rd Edition:  A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today (Zondervan, 2009). Also...

The Roots of Creativity, Seen Through a Three-Inch Frame

A fellow author's challenge,  to write what you can see through a one-inch frame about your childhood, led me to a photograph of myself. It’s an old Brownie camera photo, about three inches by three inches, but it’s a good, tight frame. And it’s filled with...