Equipping Saints • Engaging Culture • Examining Claims
God Doesn’t Speak Jacobean: A Linguistic and Theological Examination of an 1830s American Scripture — ✦ — Introduction: A Strange Echo from Upstate New York In the spring of 1830, in the burned-over district of western New York, a young man not yet twenty-five stood at the head of a newly organized church and began…
The Quiet That Carries: A Pastoral Plea for Sacred Music in a Loud Age ❦ ❦ ❦ Drive from Glendale to Apache Junction on any Sunday morning and walk into virtually any contemporary Christian worship service along the way. Before the first song begins, before the worship leader steps to the microphone, before a single…
A Scholarly Audit of Christopher Dunn’s “Giza Power Plant” Thesis ❖ ❖ ❖ Introduction: The Pyramid That Powered Nothing The Great Pyramid of Giza has been many things to many people. To Pharaoh Khufu’s funerary architects in the Fourth Dynasty, it was a monument. To Herodotus and Strabo, it was a marvel. To Charles Piazzi…
An essay in Christian apologetics: A Traditional Christian Response to a Mormon Missionary Tract ❖ ❖ ❖ Introduction: A List That Has Outlived Its Origin Few Latter-day Saint apologetic instruments have enjoyed the quiet longevity of the so-called ‘17 Points of the True Church.’ For more than half a century, the list has circulated on…
EARLY MORMON PERSONALITIES — INSTALLMENT XI A Perfect Pack of Nonsense: John Taylor and the Theological Divorce of Mormonism from Christianity ❝ I would like to obey and place myself in subjection to every law of man. What then? Am I to disobey the law of God? Has any man a right to control my…
Faithful as the Sun: The Brother in the Shadow ✦ ❖ ✦ I. A Horseman in the Illinois Heat The afternoon of June 27, 1844, sat heavy over western Illinois. Heat pressed down on the prairies, and in the dust of the road a wagon rattled westward, its young driver — a fourteen-year-old boy —…
Inside the Holy Place You’re Never Heard Of. I. A Petrol Bomb in Paradise On the morning of July 29, 2013, in a sun-bleached square at the heart of the oldest unbroken monastic settlement in Christendom, a small fire arced through the air. It came not from a Greek riot policeman, nor from an Aegean…
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A theological and legal analysis of the April 2026 federal lawsuit filed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints against John Dehlin and the Open Stories Foundation, evaluated through Matthew 5:38–42 and the broader testimony of Scripture. ⚜ ❧ ⚜ INTRODUCTION: THE CLOAK IN FEDERAL COURT On the afternoon of Friday, April 17,…
Drawing Lines Around the Truth: How Latter-day Saint Apologetic Method Predetermines Its Conclusions on Early Christian History and the Great Apostasy ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: A Compass Set Before the Pencil Among the rarer pleasures of a long career spent reading apologetic literature is the discovery of an argument that cannot lose. Not an argument…