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,…
Category: Latter-day Saints
By What Authority? A Biblical Examination of Latter-day Saint Excommunication and the Drift from Restoration to Reprisal
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…
Book of Mormon: The Most Correct Book on Earth — Except for the Doctrines That Aren’t in It
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…
Sixty-Five Days, Four Years, and One Young Man: How a 23-Year-Old Could Have Written the Book of Mormon
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…
When a Style Guide Becomes a Liability: The LDS Church’s Own Words in the Mormon Stories Case
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…
The Trap of Sacred Certainty: A Psychological Analysis of Moroni’s Promise and Its Hermetically Sealed Logic
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…
The Lion Prophet’s Hostess: Harriet Amelia Folsom Young and the Court of Zion
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…
An LDS Trust Broken in Provo: What the Stephen McKean Case Asks of All Who Teach the Young
“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,…
The Mountain Meadows Massacre: A Mormon Discussions Podcast Review.
Mormon Discussions Podcasts This is one of the darkest chapters in Mormon history—the Mountain Meadows Massacre. This isn’t a surface-level retelling. We walk through what led up to it, how it unfolded, and what happened afterward… and we let the historical record speak for itself. We examine the environment in southern Utah at the time—heightened…
James Strang: Fake Mormon Prophet, Self-Crowned King, and Master of the Ultimate Confidence Game
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. From Atheist to Angel Whisperer and His Island Empire of Fraud. The Blood of a Prophet and the Ambitions of a Pretender In the spring of 1844, Nauvoo, Illinois,…