From Janis Hutchinson: Another good reason for not returning to the Mormon Church, is the church's insistence that for a church to be God's, it has to have a head prophet. Because they do, along with twelve apostles, this is supposed to prove the divine approval of...
When I came out of Mormonism, I left a system of thought that called the Father “God” and referred to Jesus as the Christ or as the Savior but never as God. The Holy Spirit (or Holy Ghost, as Mormons say) was never referred to as God. I see shades of this...
”That aspects of the religion of a devout president of the United States should be concealed from all but 2 percent of us may be a legitimate question that merits pondering.” Quote from a provocative article in The New York Times: Everyone is asking...
Photo by Anete Lūsiņa on Unsplash I don't do much author mentoring, because I have learned a painful truth: The vast majority of people who say they want to write a book for publication are not willing to submit to 1) the discipline of learning to write...
Here's another letter I just received from a reader of this blog. It's reprinted below with her permission. How would you advise her? Hi, Mrs. Latayne Scott, Although I've never been a part of the Mormon Church, I've had various experiences through family and friends....
