LDS

Reason #63: Male-Female Dualism in the LDS Deity

LDS controversies over the last few decades regarding gender have centered in three areas: the idea of a heavenly Mother…

16 years ago

Reason #60: The Nature of LDS Truth

  Since leaving the Church, I have been puzzled that my many Mormon friends have not shown interest in engaging…

16 years ago

Reason #59: LDS’s Exclusivistic Claim to Truth

  Of particular interest was my discovery of many people outside the Church who had exceptional powers, such as healing,…

16 years ago

Reason #58: LDS Leaders’ Linguistic Abilities

  After finishing graduate work in linguistics and education at BYU in 1976, I found professional work in the translation…

16 years ago

Reason #57: The Nature of LDS Missionary Lessons

When I began missionary service for the Church in 1962, I was given a "plan for teaching the Gospel" to…

16 years ago

Reason #55: Group Pressure in Mormonism

  An LDS doctrine that had always strongly appealed to me was free agency:  that God respects our right to…

16 years ago

Reason #52: LDS Sources Enlist Unwilling “Advocates”

When I was a Mormon, I and other people told prospective Mormons that the Smithsonian Institute believed and supported Book…

16 years ago

What I Write and Why I Write It

I have been active on the HBO Big Love message boards recently, and one person who identified himself as a…

16 years ago

Reason #51: Latter-day Revelation Didn’t Create Unity

  Whatever its effects upon the religious world, Mormonism has not, as it originally purposed, done away with religious division.…

16 years ago

Reason #48: The Love of God (from Susan Storm Smith)

  FROM SUSAN STORM SMITH:    As I was in Bible study this morning, the most beautiful thought came to me…

16 years ago