Latayne

Reason #33: Who could verify Egyptian translations in 1828?

  Martin Harris did indeed as Mormons claim take a copy of some of the characters Joseph Smith said he…

15 years ago

Reason #32: Joseph Smith’s Imaginative Abilities

  Smith's wife Emma once said that she believed God dictated the Book of Mormon because her husband could hardly…

15 years ago

Writing Acronyms

Writers have their own set of abbreviations (especially in this age of Twitter -- find me there under "Latayne.") The…

15 years ago

Reason #30: Questionable Biblical Interpretation

Why must uniquely- LDS Biblical interpretation be rejected? Because a supposedly Biblical doctrine that is based on possibly-plausible possible exceptions…

15 years ago

Reason #28: Gods

So why would I want to return to a system of thought that would turn my attention toward -- and…

15 years ago

Reason #27: The “other sheep” problem

  I was told when I was a Mormon that the other sheep Jesus said he would bring were the…

15 years ago

Reason #26: Geography

Much has been made about how Joseph Smith just used or adapted Bible names to create the names in the…

15 years ago

Two books on Mormonism being typeset

An update on my books:  The Mormon Mirage is  completely copyedited at Zondervan, and   Latter-day Cipher at Moody.  If you…

15 years ago

Mormon Mirage Final Keyline

Wow!  Here is the final keyline (front, spine, back) for The Mormon Mirage.  It makes me want to read it.  What…

15 years ago

To twitter or not to Twitter?

I've been fighting an internal battle about my postings on Twitter, Facebook, Shoutlife, and SistahFaith.  Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas…

15 years ago