What I’ve Been Reading

Let's take a break from polygamy, shall we? Here's what I'm reading or have read in the last few months: Charles H. Spurgeon's Treasury of David.  (Ongoing:  I'm almost halfway through. ) Tony Hillerman's The Fallen Man. Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad Irene...

FLDS Raid

I, like most Christians, am incensed that the children from the FLDS raid have been separated from their mothers.  But I did not know until today the reason for that. Social workers are begging the mothers to acknowledge their children.  But most will not do so.  In...

A Comment from Scott Simmons

When I read your blog regarding the stories of FLDS and others.  It is very clear that I have not experienced the abuse of submission as some have.  Your insight is very valuable in helping me understand the potential for subversion of the truth in the topic of...

FLDS Insights from Janis Hutchinson

The explosive news coverage of the polygamist sect in Texas, where male members consummated their marriages with minor children in the basement of their temple, can now be better understood in my new article, The Mormon Temple Ceremony, which has just been posted to...

Raid on the Polygamous FLDS Compound

I have been called by a counselor who is dealing with some of the young women who were evacuated from the west Texas compound founded by convicted polygamist Warran Jeffs. Here are some observations regarding that group. I was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus...

God’s timing

I'm often surprised (but shouldn't be) at how God uses the conjunction of events to encourage me.  As many of you have noticed, I haven't posted much in the last month or so.  That's because I was finishing up the final, 500-page manuscript of The Mormon Mirage.  And,...