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• These Gold Plates Are Not Real

  

  People, people, PEOPLE! You have to STOP this! I'm seeing this report of gold plates found at the Hill Cumorah posted all over Facebook, accompanied by... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2016 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Did Russell M. Nelson Take The Lord's Name In Vain?

  

  Previously: Essential Mormon Books of 2015 (Note: Some readers may find this post to be cynical in tone and easily dismissed as some kind of anti-Mormon screed. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2016 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Essential Mormon Books of 2015 (And One From 2012)

  

  Previously: The Hidden Reason For the Policy Change on Baptisms Professional book reviewers tend to present their lists of favorite books in time for their... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Hidden Reason For The Policy Change On Baptisms

  

  Previously: The Real Threat To Traditional Marriage, Part Three It's not often I write something that turns out to be extremely timely, but just after I posted... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Real Threat To Traditional Marriage, Part Three: Betrayal

  

  (For parts one and two of this series, click here and here.) There may be no better indicator of the schizophrenia currently plaguing the LDS Church these days... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Real Threat To Traditional Marriage, Part Two; Rethinking Rights

  

  Previously: The Real Threat To Traditional Marriage Last week's post here ticked some people off. If I learned one thing, it's that all it takes to be... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Real Threat To Traditional Marriage

  

  Previously: How We Know Thomas Monson Is A Prophet, Seer, And RevelatorSometime before the Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v Hodges, I wrote a piece... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• How We Know Thomas Monson Is A Prophet, Seer, And Revelator

  

  Previously: Appealing My Excommunication Of all the issues currently dividing members of the church today, none is so divisive as the question of whether or... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Appealing My Excommunication

  

  Previously: Why I Grieve For Boyd K. PackerA number of people have expressed a desire to read the appeal regarding my excommunication from the LDS Church, but... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Why I Grieve For Boyd K. Packer

  

  Previously: Where Did The Oracles Go? When a beloved general authority dies, as happened last month with Apostle L. Tom Perry, the internet is flooded with an... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Where Did The Oracles Go?

  

  Previously: Interview With The Apostate The year before he and his brother were murdered, Joseph Smith taught us something valuable about the kingdom of God, an... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Interview With The Apostate

  

  Previously: Yerrrrr OUT!New Zealander Gina Colvin, proprietor of the incomparable blog Kiwi Mormon, recently interviewed me in-depth for the podcast series A... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Yerrrrr OUT!

  

  Previously: Conduct Unbecoming A Member Of The ChurchA few hours ago I was excommunicated from the church for apostasy. "What sins am I guilty of?" "Apostasy."... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Conduct Unbecoming A Member Of The Church

  

  Previously: The Worst Law of Heaven Just four days ago, my bishop and the stake executive secretary showed up at my doorstep to hand me this letter: Dear Brothe... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Worst Law Of Heaven

  

  Previously: Any Opposed, Please Sit Down And Shut Up I suppose in the not-too-distant future, when the Lord has either cleansed the LDS Church of its gross... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Any Opposed, Please Sit Down and Shut Up

  

  Previously: Where'd Everybody Go? Something really weird happened yesterday. During the general conference of the church, Elder Dieter Uchtdorf presented the... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Where'd Everybody Go?

  

  On a Friday afternoon several months ago, Connie and I got a surprise visit from our ward's new sister missionaries. They were just assigned to the area and... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• My Near Death Experience

  

  Previously: Know Your Religion Okay, the title of this post is a bit of a cheat, but it's all I could think of right now. If you're expecting me to relate an... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Know Your Religion

  

  Previously: Correct Me If I'm Wrong You want a challenge? Try getting a decent handle on Mormon theology today. The gospel of Christ is supposed to be simple... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Correct Me If I'm Wrong

  

  I had every intention of devoting this space to a discussion of some new tools available that would be of benefit to all of us in better understanding our... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2015 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY