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A Traditional Christian Examination of Latter-day Saint Proxy Baptism ✦ ⬩ ✦ Introduction: A Woman in the River On a September day in 1840, a widow named Jane Neyman waded into the muddy current of the Mississippi River near the half-built city of Nauvoo, Illinois. She was not being baptized for herself. She had come…
EARLY MORMON PERSONALITIES — TWENTIETH INSTALLMENT Helen Mar Kimball, the Doll, the Altar, and the Making of a Mormon Memory ❖ ❖ ❖ On a warm afternoon in Nauvoo, Illinois, sometime in 1841, a twelve-year-old girl named Helen Mar Kimball still loved her dolls. She kept a small company of china dolls, gifts her father,…
EARLY MORMON PERSONALITIES — FOURTEENTH INSTALLMENT He Proved a Prophet Wrong with the Prophet’s Own Bible. ❦ ❧ ❦ On the warm evening of June 10, 1844, a column of nearly one hundred men marched through the streets of Nauvoo, Illinois, toward a modest brick print shop. They carried a sledgehammer. Inside stood a single…
Calling, Election, and Carte Blanche: The Crowning Ordinance Most Mormons Have Never Heard Of I. The Room Behind the Curtain Picture a Sunday evening inside a granite temple, the kind that crowns a hill or anchors a city square. The doors are locked. The visitors’ rooms are empty. The chapels are dark. Somewhere within, in…
How the Book of Mormon Could Have Been Written Without Plates, Without Angels, and Without Divine Intervention A Literary, Historical, and Archaeological Examination ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: A Question of Authorship On a March evening in 1830, the press of Egbert B. Grandin in Palmyra, New York, finished setting type on a 588-page volume bound…
TWO TIMELINES: ONE CONTINENT Comparing the Book of Mormon Narrative to the Documented History and Archaeology of the Ancient Americas Introduction: A Story That Asks to Be Believed Civilizations do not pass quietly into the earth. They leave signatures—layered, stubborn, and unmistakable—pressed into stone, clay, metal, and memory. Time erodes their monuments, but it does…
Photo: Behold the ultimate heavenly realm. With its gleaming white spires, peaceful waters, and crowds ascending in white gowns. This is Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro, imagining what The “Celestial Kingdom” might look like. THREE KINGDOMS, ONE QUESTION: What Does the Bible Teach About Heaven? A Scholarly Analysis of Latter-day Saint Afterlife Doctrine Introduction What…
Image: An AI-generated image depicts a corkboard with pinned illustrations and text snippets detailing the complex legacy of the Lamanites in the Book of Mormon. The pinned images visually contrast the narrative’s themes, showing scenes of warfare, hunting, and nomadic life alongside moments of profound spiritual conversion and a utopian period of peace following the…
The LDS Church announced 385,490 convert baptisms in 2025 — eclipsing the previous record of 330,877 set in 1990 and representing a nearly 25% leap over the 308,682 recorded in 2024. The Salt Lake Tribune. General Conference treated this as a prophetic milestone, and by raw numerical standards, it is. But headline statistics rarely tell…
Image: An AI-generated image imagines Jesus on the Cross in the final moments of His suffering, the two thieves beside Him, a group of mourners below the cross, and several Roman centurians looking up at Jesus. John 19:30 and the Completed Atonement of Jesus Christ A Theological Examination from an Orthodox Christian Perspective ✦ ✦…