LDS

Those horrible Puritans?

A recent column  by prominent LDS writer Orson Scott Card (known best by us non-Mormons as an outstanding sci-fi writer)…

16 years ago

Reason #47: The Monitoring of Church Members and Ex-Members

   The LDS Church once instituted an organization "“ more of a practice, really "“ called the "Strengthening the Church…

16 years ago

Reason #46 — Big Love and the Introduction of Polygamy into American Culture

  Big Love, indeed.  Mormonism, in all its incarnations, institutionalized what many people see as the inevitable successor to legalized…

16 years ago

Koinonia Blog

I'm preparing a series of blog posts requested by Zondervan's Academic Blog, Koinonia which will appear in about a month.  I'm…

16 years ago

Reason #42: from Susan Storm Smith

Here are a couple of reasons why I would not return to being a Mormon. 1) The whole Temple and Endowment…

16 years ago

Reason #40: Joseph Smith’s Failed “Miracles”

  False Prophecies and Failed Abilities of Joseph Smith: While at Kirtland Ohio, Joseph made a prophecy that is unfamiliar…

16 years ago

Reason #39: Because dissent or questions were stifled in Mormonism from the very beginning

In the formative years of the LDS Church, any revelation received by church members was only considered valid if it…

16 years ago

Reason #36: Joseph Smith Joined Another Church After Saying He Was Forbidden by God

  On June 15, 1828"”years after his supposed visit from God who told him that all churches on earth were…

16 years ago

Reason #35: The Gold Plates Never Existed

  One LDS author, Dan Vogel in American Apocrypha:Essays on the Book of Mormon stated:  "Given the fact that the…

16 years ago

Iron Sharpens Iron Broadcast

Last week I was interviewed on WNYG in New York on the "Iron Sharpens Iron" broadcast. One of the most…

16 years ago