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EARLY MORMON PERSONALITIES SERIES — POST 2 The Man Who Built a Kingdom — And the Theology That Could Not Bear Its Weight ❦ ❦ ❦ Prologue: The Lion in Winter It was the evening of August 29, 1877, in Salt Lake City, and the late-summer heat still pressed against the city like a weight….
Introduction If Dr. Seuss taught anything—between the rhymes, the nonsense, and the brightly colored absurdities—it’s that systems obsessed with control, image, and hierarchy eventually tell on themselves. The Sneetches, after all, were so consumed with status markers that they couldn’t see their own ridiculousness. The Lorax stood as a lone, inconvenient voice warning an empire…
T H E R I G H T E O U S C A U S E Early Mormon Personalities · Series Installment One Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism — and the Husband He Could Not Outrun ❖ ❖ ❖ I. The Road Outside Van Buren On the afternoon of May 13,…
A traditional Christian evaluation of LDS disciplinary practice — its origins, its mutations, its modern weaponization, and the New Testament standard it has progressively abandoned. ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: A Door That Used to Open Both Ways Church discipline is one of those topics that respectable Christians of every century have preferred to discuss in…
How the Book of Mormon Itself Refutes the Distinctive Doctrines of Modern Mormonism A Critical Examination of the “Fullness of the Gospel” Claim From a Traditional Christian Perspective Introduction: A Promise on the Sabbath On a Sunday afternoon in late November of 1841, in the parlor of Brigham Young’s modest home in Nauvoo, Illinois, Joseph…
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…
Image: An AI-generated image imagines a group of handsomely dressed lawyers frantically digging a hole near an LDS temple to find archeological evidence against brand infringement. Trademark, Tribe, and Trial A Semi-Legal Analysis of the LDS Church’s Lawsuit Against John Dehlin and the “Mormon Stories” Podcast 1. Introduction: A Suit Born of a Word On…
Image: An AI-generated image from Google Gemini imagines a young man sitting on a park bench who has been reading the Book of Mormon, happily looking up at an angelic figure appearing out of the clouds, giving a “thumbs up” sign of affirmation. A Comprehensive Examination of Circular Reasoning, Psychological Manipulation, and Epistemological Fallacies in…
Image: Brigham Young, circa 1855. L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. File via Wikipedia. Original image by Charles Roscoe Savage (1832–1909). Public domain. She Ruled Brigham Young: The Quiet Power of Wife No. 51 Harriet Amelia Folsom Young (1838–1910): The Cultured Consort Who Ruled a Prophet’s Heart Introduction: A…
“You’re Going to Make Me Like You Better Than My Wife”: Reading the Affidavit with Trembling Hands Introduction: A Name Nobody Wanted to Read When the name of a Brigham Young University professor appeared in a police booking affidavit this week, it was not in connection with a grant, a new paper in algebraic geometry,…