An Open Letter to Mitt Romney, Respectfully Submitted

Before I print the text of the letter I have written to Mitt Romney, I want to lay out the situation.  The problem is that conservatives want to support a conservative presidential nominee. But they are distrustful of someone who practices a religion which has in the...

Reason #186: Because the LDS Church Covers Up Its Own History

I recently learned here that some people believe the leadership of the LDS church exerted enough pressure that it was able to prevent the production/airing of a mini-series, The Mormon Murders, that documented how the LDS church (and others) were duped by a document...

Reason #133: Today’s Mormons Don’t Know The Church’s Past

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...

On writing

Recently the ExMormon Foundation honored me by requesting that I address them at their annual conference on how to write well. Here's a link to the 8-part (about an hour) presentation, Out of the Mormon Mirage. And in the course of the address I referred to a short,...