Latayne's shadow falling into a jail cell on Machaeus, site of the imprisonment of John the Baptist. Author as Proxy I was about thirteen years old when a bus took a dozen of my Mormon friends and me from our hometown in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Manti, Utah. There...
Photo by Mantas Hesthaven on Unsplash Mormonism Rejects Imputed Righteousness by Michael Flournoy I was a Mormon apologist. I wrote a book entitled, “A Biblical Defense of Mormonism”, and most of my time was spent debating Christians in online forums. I...
Historicity Matters By Paul Nurnberg And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. —Matthew 22:37, ESV On a hot summer day in 1998 I was a Mormon missionary knocking doors in Szeged, a...
Not the Jesus of Joseph I forever cut my ties with Mormonism after I discovered the Jesus of the Bible and the Jesus of Mormonism were not the same person. Jesus was never an elder brother who had the most valiant plan in the pre-existence during a Council in...
Deceived No More I thought I knew and understood Mormon doctrine. After all, I’d been raised in a devout Mormon home and was a straight A Seminary student. Then I went on to BYU and maintained that high grade in all my religion classes. But when a...
At First Glance The flowers adorning her pale cotton church dress shown through the clear water of the sacrament cup. At first glance, one could not tell if the small plastic vessel was empty or full. It was empty. The puffy white clouds moved by the wind's hand...
