by Robert Rees | Mar 9, 2015 | Featured, LDS Church History |
“Liar,” “Fraud,” “Adulterer,” “Charlatan,” “Pedophile,” “Con-man,” “Blasphemer,” “Anti-Christian.” These are just some of the negative epithets that Joseph Smith’s critics use in describing him. The Latin phrase reductio ad absurdum means literally “reduction to the...
by Laurel Sandberg-Armstrong | Feb 17, 2015 | Featured, Feminism, Individuality, LDS Church History, Mormonism, Relief Society |
I’ve been trying to think of how to approach this subject as recent events in the last few years have made women’s treatment in the Church a hot-button issue sure to elicit immediate knee-jerk responses of all kinds. Add to that my deeply ingrained...
by Jon Grimes | Feb 7, 2015 | Faith Crisis, Featured, Humanity, LDS Church History, Mormonism |
What makes someone ‘great’? Most of the figures to whom we gift the epithet ‘great’ have earned their distinction primarily by being masters of the art of butchery. The vast majority of people known as ‘the great’ are rulers, founders and expanders of empire:...
by Joe Geisner | Jan 22, 2015 | Doctrine and Covenants, Featured, General authorities, Jesus Christ, LDS Church History, Mormonism, Polygamy, Standard Works, Theology |
In 1876, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published a revised edition of the Doctrine and Covenants which included, for the first time, section 130. This section includes the founding leader Joseph Smith’s prophecy that if Smith lived “until thou art...
by Brian Hales | Nov 1, 2014 | Featured, Gospel Topics, LDS Church History, Theology |
On October 22, 2014, LDS.ORG posted three essays dealing with the practice of plural marriage by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between the 1830s and 1904. Perhaps the most controversial essay is the one dealing with the earliest...
by Jessica Finnigan | Oct 13, 2014 | Faith, Featured, LDS Church History, LDS Missions, Mormonism, Obedience, Politics, Revelation |
I volunteered to give the presentation on Mormons, it sounded like a good idea at the time, for my New Religious Movements class. My presentation pulls form the work of Rodney Stark. At the time of his work, he asserted that the LDS Church is the fastest growing...
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