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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…
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,…
Image: An AI- generated image from Google Gemini imagines Vladimir Putin protected in his underground bunker. Inside the Sealed Hatch How a Leaked European Dossier Cracked Open Putin’s Court An Investigative Analysis • May 2026 When the Theater Hides the Truth For four years, the defining image of Vladimir Putin’s wartime rule has been one…
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 the Most Comforting Words Jesus Ever Spoke Are Recast as the Most Harmful Introduction: The Words That Have Comforted the Church for Two Thousand Years On the night before His death, surrounded by men whose hearts were breaking and whose hopes were crumbling, Jesus of Nazareth spoke some of the most consequential words 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…
Lesson 1 The Journey of How the Bible Was Made and Preserved The lesson opens a six-week study designed to deepen confidence in the Bible by tracing the remarkable path it traveled to reach modern hands. Pastor Joey reminds the class that Scripture did not fall from the sky, leather-bound and gilt-edged — it came…
Delivered by Pastor Joey | East Valley International Church | Gilbert, Arizona Text: Luke 12:35-48 (ESV) Abstract and summary of the pastor’s sermon: Setting the Stage: From Worry to Watchfulness Pastor Joey opens by connecting this sermon to the previous study on worry and anxiety from Luke 12. He reminds the congregation that while life…