The LDS Church once instituted an organization ““ more of a practice, really ““ called the “Strengthening the Church Members Committee” which it publicly billed as a newspaper clipping service[ii] but which in reality was a spy...
Big Love, indeed. Mormonism, in all its incarnations, institutionalized what many people see as the inevitable successor to legalized same-sex marriage: the legalization of plural marriage, which many people are calling “the next civil rights...
On one occasion Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the LDS religion, quoted from seventeen different languages (not always accurately). At another time he claimed, “I know more than all the world put together” and went on to discuss the meaning...
Mormons are taught that abstinence from tea, coffee, alcohol, and tobacco is essential for entrance into the celestial kingdom. If this is true, Joseph Smith must be a candidate for the terrestrial or telestial kingdom because he repeatedly violated the Word of...
I'm preparing a series of blog posts requested by Zondervan's Academic Blog, Koinonia which will appear in about a month. I'm very honored to be writing a week's worth of posts. I am also excited to be able to give academics a fresh way of looking at Mormonism...
