A new site, ExMormonScholarsTestify.org, gives reasons why thinking people made the decision to leave the LDS Church. My testimony is the first on the site. Do you know other ex-Mormon scholars whose stories should be told as well? For more information, see The...
Some LDs writers have said that a settlement in southern Arabia named NHM is the Nahom of the Book of Mormon. In Hebrew (and I'm just a student, not an expert), vowels are not written out in most cases. Thus NHM, whose root means “mourning” could be Naham...
FRIDAY Blood throbbing like muffled drums Tendons stretching like fence-wires: tune-taut But soundless His reproach streaks the silence like Lightning in darkness. Two eyes, raging from the sandstorms of a Thousand tears, finally close. The body hangs limp as wet...
Quotes from Current LDS Manuals on Nature of God Christians have long opposed the LDS teaching about the nature of God and man. The Bible consistently affirms that there is only one God, who has always existed as God. Yet Joseph Smith instituted the doctrine that God...
The central plot of When Mermaids Sing by Mark Zvonkovic (IUniverse, 2008) focuses on the narrator, Larry, a man still finding himself. His own endeavors are side-stepped though, when his close friend and cousin, searching for many of the same things becomes...
