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How a church lawyer’s friendly podcast interview — and a marketplace crowded with the word “Mormon” — are complicating the LDS Church’s trademark case against John Dehlin ❦ ❦ ❦ On a friendly stage, before a friendly host, a lawyer for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tried to explain the difference between…
A Traditional Christian Examination ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: A Microphone Lowered for a Four-Year-Old On the first Sunday of almost any month, in almost any of the thousands of Latter-day Saint meetinghouses that dot the American West, a familiar scene unfolds. The bishop invites the congregation to share testimonies. After a pause, a small figure…
A study in New Testament ecclesiology, patristic history, and the architecture of Latter-day Saint truth claims ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: Twelve Men Who Would Not Recant Peter was crucified. Herod Agrippa beheaded James the son of Zebedee, and Luke records it in a single unadorned sentence, as though the Church had already learned to expect…
Image: A profound AI revision of the original image displayed in the Salt Lake Tribune: “Even carved in immutable white marble, a moment of divine second-guessing over the current lineup is unmistakably etched into the Savior’s posture.” Called by Whom? The Latter-day Saint Apostleship Measured Against the Twelve Christ Chose ❦ ❖ ❦ I. Introduction:…
The Answer Before the Question Moroni 10:4–5, the Architecture of Spiritual Certainty, and Why a Christian Should Not Take the Test ❦ ❦ ❦ I. Introduction: The Doorstep and the Question Two young men in white shirts and dark ties stand on a porch in Mesa, Arizona. They are nineteen, perhaps twenty. They have been…
Does the Bible Alone Contain the “Fullness” of the Gospel? A Point-for-Point Examination of the New Testament, Historic Christian Teaching, and the Book of Mormon ◆ ◆ ◆ Introduction: A Farm Boy and a Family Bible Sometime in the spring of 1820, according to the account he dictated years later, a fourteen-year-old boy in Manchester…
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. Friends of John Dehlin Want to Know. Furthermore, Was The Lawsuit Obtained By Revelation? Twenty Years of Silence, the Manufacture of “Confusion,” and the LDS Church’s Case Against Mormon…
Photo: This image shows Jacob Hansen channeling his inner Justin Martyr, minus that whole beheading by the Roman prefect Rusticus. Hansen is a Latter-day Saint businessman, father of four, seminary teacher, youth-football coach, surfer, hunter, sailor, Jiu-Jitsu enthusiast, and operator of Thoughtful Faith—a channel apparently founded on the premise that a sufficiently busy man can…
Claude AI summary of Mormon Stories podcast “How the Book of Mormon was Composed” Ep. 1615 Source Program: Mormon Stories Podcast, Episode 1615 — “How the Book of Mormon was Composed,” installment ten of the LDS Discussions series. Participants: John Dehlin (host); Mike of LDS Discussions (guest); Douglas Stilgoe, known online as “Nemo the Mormon”…
“But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.” — 1 Peter 3:15 (ESV) Introduction: What the Exit Doors Reveal Every religious movement loses members….