by Scott Goates | Nov 29, 2016 | Apologetics, Church History, Featured, General authorities, History, Honesty, Truth |
Recently Elder Ballard addressed the stakes in the Utah South area. The full content of the address can be found here. During his address, Elder Ballard counselled parents and leaders to help people find answers to difficult questions, and declared: The Church is...
by Michelle Wiener | Oct 26, 2016 | Agency, Apologetics, art, Atonement, Book Reviews, Church, Compassion, exclusion-policy, Faith Crisis, faith crisis, Family, Featured, Fellowship, Forgiveness, Hell, Homosexuality, Interview, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Judgement, LGBTQ, lies, Lucifer, Marriage, Movie Reviews, Near Death Experience, Obedience, Righteousness, Savior, Sexuality, Spiritual Experiences, spirituality, the Spirit World, Word of Wisdom, Word of Wisdom, Worthiness |
Back in 1985, Rev. Howard Storm had a Near Death Experience (NDE) in which he was first taken to hell and dramatically rescued by Jesus. In 2000, Storm published a book entitled My Descent into Death recounting his NDE. He was featured on Oprah twice in the 1980’s,...
by Benjamin Knoll | Oct 4, 2016 | Apologetics, Book Reviews, Charity, Compassion, Disagreement, Featured, General authorities, General Conference, Jesus Christ, Leadership, Prophets |
Today we are pleased to feature an interview with Patrick Mason. He is the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies and the Chair of the Religion Department at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of several scholarly books and articles dealing with Mormon...
by Michelle Wiener | Sep 9, 2016 | Agency, Apologetics, Atonement, Bible Scholarship, Blogs about Blogs, Book of Abraham, Disagreement, faith crisis, Faith Crisis, Featured, Feminism, Heavenly Mother, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Lucifer, Mother in Heaven, Old Testament, Pearl of Great Price, Savior, scripture, scripture translation, Symbolism, the Spirit World, Theology |
As Mormons, we believe that Heavenly Father presented a plan for his spirit children in the preexistence. In this great Council in Heaven, Jesus was selected to be the one through whom redemption would be brought about through his intense suffering. However, Lucifer...
by Jonathan Cannon | Jul 18, 2016 | Apologetics, Featured, Natural Theology, Transhumanism, Truth |
I’m an Apologist My most read posts in the past include a review of An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins, a personal response to the Letter to a CES Director, and a series of posts exploring the science of stylometry as it applies to the Book of Mormon. In...
by Michelle Wiener | Jun 22, 2016 | Agency, Apologetics, Corporate Church, faith crisis, Faith Crisis, Featured, Mormonism, Why I Am Mormon |
For this post, I decided to ask myself a rather difficult question. So, why do I, as a convert, remain LDS despite my struggles with certain aspects of Mormonism? As it turns out, I have some good reasons, and the positive far outweighs the negative. Here are my...
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