Traditional Masonic symbols are rampant in older LDS temples. Representations of beehives, heavenly bodies, clasped hands, the All Seeing Eye, the square, the compass, and cloud-painted ceilings are abundant in 19th-century Utah temples.[1] Many Masonic symbols which...
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...
I have read that a very high percentage of members of the LDS church today are first-generation. Recently I had the following experience with one of them: About two months ago I sat at a restaurant with a college student who had grown up Mormon as she recounted to me...
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...
The Kinderhook Plates are a tell-tale sign bearing witness against the LDS church. Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to live in the city Joseph Smith created in the mid-1840s — from a non-LDS perspective? Now online are PDF documents from the...
