Book of Mormon
My First Scoop!
I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the number of positive responses of the Malay Theory in my previous post. In discussing the post with Ralph Olsen, the author of this theory, he has given me permission to post his unpublished manuscript! Ralph is looking for a sort of “peer review”, where people give honest feedback about […]
Academic and Mormon Views of Easter
So, I’ve been checking my blog stats, and with Easter upon us, it seems my post from last year about why Mormon’s don’t celebrate Easter is getting the most hits. While last year’s post was a little negative-that I think Mormon celebrations of Easter are lacking compared to other Christians’ Easter celebrations, I hope to […]
A Radically Different Book of Mormon Geography Theory
In the movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Nazi’s are looking for the Lost Ark of the Covenant. They have an image of a map burned into the hand of a Nazi scientist, so they think they know where the Ark is. However, there is a critical piece of information missing which is found […]
Sidney Rigdon, after the Martyrdom – Part 5
Ok, I know I have devoted much time to Sidney Rigdon. I think this is the last one I’ll do for a while, though I reserve the right to change my mind. Most people are aware that Sidney left the church (or should we say the church left him?), but few know very much about […]
Sketch of Sidney Rigdon – Part 2
Ok, I just finished the Sidney Rigdon book, and wanted to give some of my overall impressions, as well as present some information about his life. I had intended to give an overall sketch of his life, but this post is long enough, so I will probably do this in a few parts. I like […]
Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess
A few weeks ago, I read this humorous article in the Deseret News which basically said the men don’t attend book clubs. I loved this quote: “Men realize that they are only allocated a certain number of spoken words in their lifetime, so being of a cautious nature, they choose not to waste words on […]
Early Black Mormons
I recently purchased Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons. It is an outstanding documentary produced by Margaret Young, BYU faculty member, and Darius Gray, one of the original members of The Genesis Group. Under President Joseph Fielding Smith, this group was supervised in 1971 by junior apostles Gordon B Hinckley, Thomas S Monson, […]
McClellin Notebook
William McLellin (or M’Lellin) is an interesting figure in LDS church history. He was called as an original member of the Quorum of 12 Apostles, and was excommunicated for apostasy in 1838. At this point, he became a vocal critic of the church. Mormon Times recently published an article about a recently discovered McClellin notebook, […]
Sometimes God says “No”
King Benjamin makes the case that God is intimately involved in our lives, even lending us breath, and supporting us from one moment to another. Mosiah 2: 21 21 I say unto you that if ye should aserve him who has created you from the beginning, and is bpreserving you from day to day, by […]
Nahom-Archeaological Evidence of Book of Mormon
After Lehi’s family left Jerusalem, they traveled in the Arabian Peninsula on their way to the “promised land.” In 1994, an archeaological discovery in Yemen has the same name as mentioned in 1 Ne. 16: 34, “And it came to pass that Ishmael died, and was buried in the place which was called Nahom. Critics […]
Mormon Heretic 