I was fascinated to read Ed Decker’s post on The Great Mormon Paradigm Shift and while my first reaction was simple bewilderment at how anyone could get so many things wrong, I have since given it a more patient analysis. […]
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What makes Mormons tick?
What makes Mormons tick? – Guest Voices – The Washington Post for the journalists out there who still want to understand Mormon belief, may I suggest that you put the blogs and books and web searches aside for a few […]
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John Turner: Mormons and Baptism by Proxy – WSJ.com
John Turner: Mormons and Baptism by Proxy – WSJ.com John Turner plays a fair hand on this contentious topic, but ignores some fairly significant information in the process in claiming that Baptism by proxy has its roots in early Mormonism, […]
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And it is overdue. Romney, Mormonism, and the American Compromise by Terryl Givens
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This is well worth a careful reading. Esoteric Ritual During the New Testament Era New Testament Temple Ritual
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Parents sometime find it convenient to speak in another language to keep their conversations private without having to go, you know, somewhere private. Pity then the poor parents who are monolingual. My parents were in this group. Sure, they each […]
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I have seen many questions raised about the prospect of having a “Mormon” as President of The United States. These usually run along the lines of “Can we trust a man who believes that some dude in SLC literally speaks […]
Continue reading »The Humility of an Author – Rare Stuff Indeed
Orson Scott Card on inspiration: A claim of inspiration is a claim of authority, and, as a writer, I have none. That is why I never claim that anything I wrote was inspired by God, not even things I wrote […]
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