When I began missionary service for the Church in 1962, I was given a “plan for teaching the Gospel” to use in converting others to the Church. This plan was usually referred to as “the discussions” and contained teaching...
Some years earlier, the war in Vietnam had been gaining momentum and arousing greater domestic opposition. As consternation grew in the Church membership over this issue, especially among the many families with young men being conscripted into the war, Hugh Brown,...
An LDS doctrine that had always strongly appealed to me was free agency: that God respects our right to choose, and that it is our ethic to likewise respect unconstrained choice for all people. That notion was badly shaken when I was first...
I am humbled and honored by the first review of The Mormon Mirage, as posted on Barnes & Noble: The Mormon Mirage Clears the Air by Thresholds Reader Rating: See Detailed Ratings March 28, 2009: When I began The Mormon Mirage by Latayne Scott I had very little...
One of the reasons I am beginning to write fiction is perhaps what government officials might call “plausible deniability.” (smile). In non-fiction, even if it is written only third-person, the very inclusion of ideas means that you are giving them some...
