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The Shelf: When Faith Meets Unanswered Questions For many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), faith is a carefully constructed edifice. Beliefs are meticulously placed upon a mental shelf, each one bolstering the others. But what happens when troubling questions begin to accumulate, threatening the stability of the entire…
ANCHORED: Hope That Holds Hebrews 6:9–20 ESV EXTRA CREDIT – Regarding the Melchizedek Priesthood: Mormon vs. Christian theology. The Latter-day Saint Theology of Two Priesthoods The Aaronic (Lesser) Priesthood The LDS Church maintains a hierarchical priesthood structure that begins with what they term the “Aaronic” or “lesser” priesthood. According to official LDS teaching materials,…
On Sunday, March 8, Pastor Joey Sampaga delivered a message from Luke 11:29–36, building on the previous week’s warning about the danger of an outwardly cleaned but spiritually empty heart. Jesus calls the generation “evil” for demanding signs despite witnessing His miracles. He declares the only sign they will receive is the sign of Jonah—His…
From Ramps and Sledges to Hydraulic Elevators and Human Counterweights: The Complete Survey of Every Theory, Ancient to Cutting-Edge INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM THAT WILL NOT SLEEP Stand at the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza on a late winter morning, when the desert air is still cool, and the plateau stretches toward Cairo in…
Illustration: Faith meets the fossil record. This Google Gemini AI illustration captures the introduction to the blog post, highlighting the irony of a modern religious monument standing beside a scientifically verifiable prehistoric excavation site. A Scholarly Examination of Book of Mormon Archaeology in Light of Current Evidence “Biblical archaeologists can barely keep pace with the…
In the power vacuum following Joseph Smith’s murder in June 1844, a little-known convert named James Jesse Strang made an audacious play for control of the Latter-day Saint movement. Producing a letter he claimed Smith had written before his death — naming Strang as successor — he launched one of the most brazen religious confidence…
Have They Been Asking the Wrong Questions About Jeffrey Epstein All Along? Conspiracy theories about how Jeffrey Epstein died in his prison cell continue to flood the internet, nearly approaching those of the JFK assassination. Has there been an overlooked observation that Epstein was not a diminutive physical person? Would he have voluntarily participated in…
Photo: From the diary of James Strang (see attached PDF). Via Archive.org. Publisher: Michigan State University Press. Copyright review: Public domain according to HathiTrust rights database. The Mormon King Nobody Remembers: James Jesse Strang and His Island Empire of Fraud The Blood of a Prophet and the Ambitions of a Pretender In the spring of…
Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign launched on February 28, 2026, struck over 1,700 Iranian targets within the first 72 hours, including deeply buried underground missile complexes, naval assets, command-and-control nodes, and even the compound of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself. The sheer precision of the strikes — across hundreds of hardened, dispersed,…
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