TowardzionMar 226 minThe Coming Authority ConvergenceA few short months ago, this blog posted "A Tale of Two Isms" juxtaposing different styles of authority, where they differed, but how...
TowardzionSep 1, 202112 minOf Dreams and DaybellsToday, commentators, progressive post-Mormons, are apoplectic at the rise of those promoting personal revelation like infamous Chad Daybell
TowardzionJul 3, 20208 minThere'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...
TowardzionJul 1, 202024 minRejecting the Binary - Learning to Find your PathNow that we have run through the possible scenarios that eject people from Mormonism and discussed the ways we can parse through them and...
TowardzionJun 6, 202026 minThe God DecisionIf you are a secular person, you’ll have a much higher threshold for credulity than if you are spiritual or religious. But this threshold...
TowardzionMay 31, 202020 minDueling Millennial BanjosThe Problems and Possibilities of Prophecy For many people, the lynchpin in their loss of Mormon faith comes from the issues relating to...
TowardzionMay 23, 202017 minA 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...
TowardzionMay 18, 202016 minLosing the Culture WarThe last couple of decades in the Church has been fraught with cultural battles over the role of homosexuals and transgender people and...
TowardzionMay 8, 20207 minEqual Rights OrdinationAside from polygamy, which was a most hellish imposition on women, Joseph Smith and the 19th Century Church had a mixed record of...
TowardzionMay 4, 202016 minRuminating on RaceFor many people, the moral outrage they feel at the Church stems from what they perceive as a history of limiting who can participate in...
TowardzionApr 27, 20205 minMonogamy Wins for Time Only - Polygamy Part 4We discussed earlier the lying and secrecy by Wilford Woodruff and Joseph F Smith as it pertained to polygamy leaving the Church with the...
TowardzionApr 22, 202031 minChoose Your Own Adventure - Polygamy Part 3In 1841, the idea of [1]spiritual wifery was being openly promoted by John C. Bennett but was in the cultural water with respect to...
TowardzionApr 16, 202017 minLooking though History Backwards - Polygamy Part 2Almost all histories relating to Mormon polygamy are written in a way that contextualizes all points of data into one seamless narrative...
TowardzionApr 13, 202014 minRiddles in the Dark - Mormon Polygamy Part 1The CES Letter spends quite a bit of time uncovering Joseph Smith’s polygamy, and rightly so. For decades, polygamy was sold as an...
TowardzionApr 7, 202017 minTemple TragediesIn 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...
TowardzionApr 1, 202011 minWill 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...
TowardzionMar 26, 202034 minThe Rise of LDS Incorporated Before we get into this section, lets summarize the succession of modern LDS leadership. Lorenzo Snow Notable Accomplishments Immediately...
TowardzionMar 19, 202016 minMuddling through SuccessionIn the 1870’s, [1]a revelation was produced, recorded by Warren Cowdery, Oliver’s brother, which purported that Jesus Christ, Moses,...
TowardzionMar 13, 202018 minTurning Prophets into PowerOnce Joseph got the Book of Mormon translated, he set out to restore a church, as was promised by his angelic visitor, Moroni, and that...
TowardzionMar 2, 20209 minThe Mormon Truth ContinuumMormons are used to a certain narrative of priesthood and prophets which has sort of become the closer in a sales pitch. 1990's...