If you're around Mormons much, you know that folding arms and shaking hands is part of their culture. Just how much a part? Handshakes are very important elements of the LDS temple ordinances. And in the Doctrine and Covenants, Section 129 gives the vision-prone LDS...
The Deseret News reported that the LDS Church ran a survey of its members to find out if they wanted the truth about LDS leaders, history, and other matters. The fact that an organization run by divine inspiration would conduct a survey to make decisions about truth...
I recently found an excellent video, made by a faithful Mormon, about why people leave the LDS Church. It is shocking in its candid admissions of the “faults” of the LDS Church in its presentation of its own doctrine and history. However, it is...
Recently an intelligent and thoughtful ex-Mormon atheist asked a question. Briefly stated, he wanted to know why Christians would say a serial killer whose deathbed confession of Jesus could enter heaven, while a moral and decent atheist would go to hell. Here's how I...
What is so amazing about Royal Skousen's “critical text” of the BofM published by Yale University Press? It's that Mormons are touting it as being “on a par with” the “critical texts” of the Bible — that is, a look at...
This is a marvelous hypothetical situation on an excellent blog called “I Love Mormons.” It provoked a stimulating discussion there, with this scenario: What would happen if a 14-yr-old LDS kid from Mississippi suddenly showed up on the scene claiming he had received...
