by Corbin Volluz | Jan 13, 2015 | Featured, Homosexuality |
It was easy to hate homosexuals before I met one. And I met a homosexual for the first time on a city bus in Austin in the fall of 1982. I was a freshman in the dance department at the University of Texas, having recently returned from a mission to Japan. I was very...
by Corbin Volluz | Dec 30, 2014 | Featured, Feminism, Gospel Topics, Heavenly Mother, Mormonism, Mother in Heaven |
It is Sunday. March 17, 2013. I have just arrived at church. Sacrament meeting is about to start. I settle into my family’s customary pew with my wife and 16-year old daughter. The bishop comes over. He asks me to give the closing prayer. I agree automatically. No big...
by Corbin Volluz | Dec 9, 2014 | Featured, General authorities, General Conference, Gospel Topics, Politics, Revelation, Theology, Truth |
A bomb went off in Salt Lake City in the 1980’s. But this bomb wasn’t set by Mark Hofmann. It was set by Ezra Taft Benson, the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The trigger was his famous speech, The Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet, which...
by Corbin Volluz | Nov 11, 2014 | Featured, Honesty, Lying, Truth |
If deception is an art form, the LDS Church is fast becoming Botticelli. The people who brought you the Mormons-don’t-believe-they-get-their-own-planet canard are at it again. And this time, it’s about the temple. In a recently released video (and accompanying essay)...
by Corbin Volluz | Oct 14, 2014 | Featured |
Evil spirits are real. They move among us. Sometimes they are far away. Sometimes they are closer than we would care to have them. The following are stories of encounters with evil spirits. They are true. I know. Because they happened to me. And to mine. It’s Close to...
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