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600 BC to AD 421: An LDS Narrative Adrift in Uncharted History Wikipedia: Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting. Various locations have been proposed as the geographical setting of the Book of Mormon, or the set of locations where the events described in the Book of Mormon is said to have taken place. There is…
Image: An AI‑generated image imagines your neighborhood LDS Bishop standing proudly with some of his ward members, expressing confidence and unity, while the background details quietly suggest the institutional machinery that keeps the ward running—and the power concentrated in his hands. The office of the LDS bishop is frequently misread by those outside the Mormon…
More Questions Than Answers A Critical Examination from a Traditional Christian Perspective I. Introduction: The Man Who Became an Angel Some stories define a religion, moments so pivotal that without them the entire edifice of belief collapses into rubble. For the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — commonly known as the Mormon Church…
Sally Chase, Joseph Smith, and the Folk-Magic Roots of Early Mormonism ───────────────────────────── I. Introduction: Two Seekers in Upstate New York The upstate New York frontier of the early 1820s was a place of remarkable religious ferment. Campfire revivals competed with Methodist circuit riders, Baptist immersionists with Presbyterian schoolmen, and woven through all of it—quietly, insistently—was…
The Fabrication Question A Comprehensive Examination of Non-LDS Theories on the Origins of the Book of Mormon and the Pearl of Great Price Introduction: The Problem of Provenance Few questions in the history of American religion are more freighted with consequence than this: where did Joseph Smith get his material? The question is not merely…
If you follow LDS apologetics or the broader conversation surrounding Mormon truth claims, the name Sandra Tanner needs no introduction. But for a new generation of seekers — active Latter-day Saints, those who have left the faith, and curious onlookers alike — her story and her legacy deserve a fresh telling. That is precisely what…
The Convenient Civilization: Why the Jaredites Fit Joseph Smith’s World, Not 2200 BC’s Introduction: A Battlefield with No Bodies Imagine a battlefield so vast, so saturated with carnage, that nearly two million people are said to have been slain by the sword—and yet not one archaeologist has ever identified a single bone, weapon, or site…
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…
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…
ChatGPT image: That awkward moment for Joseph Smith when the 116 pages of the lost manuscript come back annotated in red ink from Heaven’s Editorial Department. Seven Doctrinal Fault Lines That Separate Mormon Theology from Historic Christian Faith Are Mormons Christians? Let us be honest from the first sentence: Mormonism is not Christianity. It is…