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Peter Whitmer, Jr.: The Quiet Mormon Witness, the Lamanite Mission, and a Faith That Outran Its Foundations
Seventh in the Early Mormon Personalities Series 1,500 Miles to a Mistaken Identity: Peter Whitmer, Jr.’s Mission to a People Who Were Never There 1809 – 1836 ❦ ❦ ❦ I. Prologue: A Cabin, a Cow, and the Birth of an American Religion On a humid June evening in 1829, in a log cabin tucked…
When the Saucers Come: UFO Disclosure, AI Worship, and the Engineered Counter-Gospel
Look Up If You Must, But Look to Calvary First: Christians, UFOs, and the Empty Tomb A Christian’s Compass for the Age of UFOs, AI, and the Engineered Cosmic Gospel With pastoral framing from Pastor Joey Sampaga, East Valley International Church Introduction: A Mother’s Day Warning Today, before he began his message with a simple…
Hyrum Smith: The Mildness of a Lamb, the Weight of a Crown
Seventh in the Early Mormon Personalities Series The Faithful Witness: How Hyrum Smith’s Loyalty Carried A Movement and Concealed Its Contradictions ❦ ❦ ❦ I. Carthage, June 27, 1844 — A Cinematic Opening The afternoon was hot and slow on the Illinois prairie. Inside an upstairs room of the Carthage Jail, four men in shirtsleeves…
David Whitmer: The Mormon Witness Who Walked Away — and the Church That Could Not Let Him Go
Sixth Post in the Early Mormon Personalities Series Ink Beneath the Hand: The Strange Half-Faith of One of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon ❦ ❦ ❦ Prologue: A Light in the Fayette Woods Late June, 1829. The light slants through the maples on the Whitmer family farm in Fayette, New York, dappling…
The Reluctant Witness: Martin Harris — Believer, Backslider, and the Man Whose Farm Bought the Book of Mormon
Fifth Post in the Early Mormon Personalities Series The Man Who Lost a Manuscript and Found a Religion ❦ ❦ ❦ I. A Knock in the Lancashire Twilight It began in the autumn of 1874 with a knock at a quiet Utah farmhouse, an interruption to the Pilkingtons’ evening devotions. The stranger at the door…
THE WITNESS WHO WALKED AWAY: Oliver Cowdery, the Second Elder, and the Burden of Being First
Between God and Joseph Smith: The Tragic Arc of Oliver Cowdery Early Mormon Personalities Series — Fourth Post Introduction: A Man Between Two Worlds In the late spring of 1829, somewhere along the green banks of the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania, a young schoolteacher named Oliver Cowdery knelt beside a young farmer named Joseph…
Joseph’s Counselor, Brigham’s Rival, History’s Footnote: Sidney Rigdon Reconsidered
The Walking Bible Who Lost His Way Sidney Rigdon — Co-Founder, Spokesman, and Cautionary Tale of the Latter-day Saint Movement Early Mormon Personalities Series · Volume Three ❦ ✦ ❦ A Knock on the Door in Mentor Late in the autumn of 1830, on a cold Ohio afternoon when the maples of the Western Reserve…
Brigham Young: Pioneer, Prophet, Patriarch — and the Long Shadow of a Carpenter Who Crowned Himself King
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….
Oh, the Places You’ll Sue! A Seussian Take on the LDS Church vs. Mormon Stories
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…
The Apostle and the Arkansas Road: Parley P. Pratt, the Pen That Built Mormonism, and the Wife That Killed Him
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,…