The Coming Authority Convergence
A few short months ago, this blog posted "A Tale of Two Isms" juxtaposing different styles of authority, where they differed, but how...
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Towardzion
- Sep 1, 2021
- 12 min
Of Dreams and Daybells
Today, commentators, progressive post-Mormons, are apoplectic at the rise of those promoting personal revelation like infamous Chad Daybell
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Towardzion
- Jul 2, 2020
- 8 min
There's More than One Way to "Mormon"
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...
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Towardzion
- Jun 30, 2020
- 24 min
Rejecting the Binary - Learning to Find your Path
Now that we have run through the possible scenarios that eject people from Mormonism and discussed the ways we can parse through them and...
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Towardzion
- Jun 6, 2020
- 26 min
The God Decision
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...
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Towardzion
- May 30, 2020
- 20 min
Dueling Millennial Banjos
The Problems and Possibilities of Prophecy For many people, the lynchpin in their loss of Mormon faith comes from the issues relating to...
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Towardzion
- May 22, 2020
- 17 min
A Tale of Two "Isms"
The [1]CES Letter dedicates its final pages to setting up Mormonism in terms of scientific truth versus Mormon myth, which really focuses...
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Towardzion
- May 17, 2020
- 16 min
Losing the Culture War
The last couple of decades in the Church has been fraught with cultural battles over the role of homosexuals and transgender people and...
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Towardzion
- May 7, 2020
- 7 min
Equal Rights Ordination
Aside from polygamy, which was a most hellish imposition on women, Joseph Smith and the 19th Century Church had a mixed record of...
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Towardzion
- May 3, 2020
- 16 min
Ruminating on Race
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...
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Towardzion
- Apr 26, 2020
- 5 min
Monogamy Wins for Time Only - Polygamy Part 4
We discussed earlier the lying and secrecy by Wilford Woodruff and Joseph F Smith as it pertained to polygamy leaving the Church with the...
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Towardzion
- Apr 21, 2020
- 31 min
Choose Your Own Adventure - Polygamy Part 3
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...
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Towardzion
- Apr 15, 2020
- 17 min
Looking though History Backwards - Polygamy Part 2
Almost all histories relating to Mormon polygamy are written in a way that contextualizes all points of data into one seamless narrative...
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Towardzion
- Apr 12, 2020
- 14 min
Riddles in the Dark - Mormon Polygamy Part 1
The CES Letter spends quite a bit of time uncovering Joseph Smith’s polygamy, and rightly so. For decades, polygamy was sold as an...
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Towardzion
- Apr 6, 2020
- 17 min
Temple Tragedies
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...
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Towardzion
- Mar 31, 2020
- 11 min
Will a Man Rob the Corporate Sovereign Fund?
Early on, the economic laws of Mormonism were proto-socialistic, based on the Owensian theories of applying the economic laws in the Book...
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Towardzion
- Mar 25, 2020
- 34 min
The Rise of LDS Incorporated
Before we get into this section, lets summarize the succession of modern LDS leadership. Lorenzo Snow Notable Accomplishments Immediately...
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Towardzion
- Mar 18, 2020
- 16 min
Muddling through Succession
In the 1870’s, [1]a revelation was produced, recorded by Warren Cowdery, Oliver’s brother, which purported that Jesus Christ, Moses,...
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Towardzion
- Mar 12, 2020
- 18 min
Turning Prophets into Power
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...
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Towardzion
- Mar 1, 2020
- 9 min
The Mormon Truth Continuum
Mormons are used to a certain narrative of priesthood and prophets which has sort of become the closer in a sales pitch. 1990's...
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