A few short months ago, this blog posted "A Tale of Two Isms" juxtaposing different styles of authority, where they differed, but how...

Today, commentators, progressive post-Mormons, are apoplectic at the rise of those promoting personal revelation like infamous Chad Daybell

Recently the idea of “There is more than one way to Mormon” was adopted by the [1]Sunstone symposium. It has become an annual conference...

Now that we have run through the possible scenarios that eject people from Mormonism and discussed the ways we can parse through them and...

If you are a secular person, you’ll have a much higher threshold for credulity than if you are spiritual or religious. But this threshold...

The Problems and Possibilities of Prophecy For many people, the lynchpin in their loss of Mormon faith comes from the issues relating to...

The [1]CES Letter dedicates its final pages to setting up Mormonism in terms of scientific truth versus Mormon myth, which really focuses...

The last couple of decades in the Church has been fraught with cultural battles over the role of homosexuals and transgender people and...

Aside from polygamy, which was a most hellish imposition on women, Joseph Smith and the 19th Century Church had a mixed record of...

For many people, the moral outrage they feel at the Church stems from what they perceive as a history of limiting who can participate in...

We discussed earlier the lying and secrecy by Wilford Woodruff and Joseph F Smith as it pertained to polygamy leaving the Church with the...

In 1841, the idea of [1]spiritual wifery was being openly promoted by John C. Bennett but was in the cultural water with respect to...

Almost all histories relating to Mormon polygamy are written in a way that contextualizes all points of data into one seamless narrative...

The CES Letter spends quite a bit of time uncovering Joseph Smith’s polygamy, and rightly so. For decades, polygamy was sold as an...

In 1839, Joseph Smith received a revelation stating that he was to build a temple in the new city of [1]Nauvoo. This temple was meant to...

Early on, the economic laws of Mormonism were proto-socialistic, based on the Owensian theories of applying the economic laws in the Book...

Before we get into this section, lets summarize the succession of modern LDS leadership. Lorenzo Snow Notable Accomplishments Immediately...

In the 1870’s, [1]a revelation was produced, recorded by Warren Cowdery, Oliver’s brother, which purported that Jesus Christ, Moses,...

Once Joseph got the Book of Mormon translated, he set out to restore a church, as was promised by his angelic visitor, Moroni, and that...

Mormons are used to a certain narrative of priesthood and prophets which has sort of become the closer in a sales pitch. 1990's...