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,…
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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…
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…
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…
Review & Summary, Mormonish Podcast, Ep284: Decapitation and The Book Of Mormon with Dr John Lundwall
AI image collage created by Google Gemini. [Click here] to read the full transcript of this podcast [Click again to close] Hi, everybody. Welcome to Mormonish. I’m Rebecca. And I’m Landon. And I’m John. Exactly. I was going to say, you need to just jump in because you need no introduction. Let’s do it again….
Record LDS Baptisms: Impressive Numbers, Harder Questions
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…
The Confidence Scheme Hidden in the Scriptures: Joseph Smith and the Sealed Portion of the Book of Mormon
Image: An AI-generated image illustrates a depiction of the golden plates featuring the ‘sealed portion.’ According to Latter-day Saint tradition, this secured section contains an expansive revelation given to the brother of Jared, withheld from translation until humanity demonstrates sufficient faith. THE SEALED PORTION GAMBIT How Conveniently Hidden Scripture Insulates a Fraud A Critical Analysis…
FACT-CHECK REPORT: Facebook Comment on Tetelestai and John Chrysostom
Claim-by-Claim Verification Against Primary Sources — — — The Comment Under Review “Not many people know that ‘telestai’ to figures in the early Greek Christian period like John Chrysostom understood the term to mean that the prophesies about Jesus had been fulfilled, since he said this after the vinegar had been given to him. He…
They Believed the Book of Mormon — And That’s the Problem: A Psychological Critique of LDS Witness Testimony
Image: An AI-generated image imagines LDS apologists spending two centuries defending the Book of Mormon witnesses on historical grounds — arguing they never formally recanted, that their testimonies remained consistent, and that their post-Church affiliations don’t disqualify them. The images transition bypasses that battlefield entirely. The more devastating critique is not historical but psychological: the…