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A theological and legal analysis of the April 2026 federal lawsuit filed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints against John Dehlin and the Open Stories Foundation, evaluated through Matthew 5:38–42 and the broader testimony of Scripture. ⚜ ❧ ⚜ INTRODUCTION: THE CLOAK IN FEDERAL COURT On the afternoon of Friday, April 17,…
Drawing Lines Around the Truth: How Latter-day Saint Apologetic Method Predetermines Its Conclusions on Early Christian History and the Great Apostasy ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: A Compass Set Before the Pencil Among the rarer pleasures of a long career spent reading apologetic literature is the discovery of an argument that cannot lose. Not an argument…
The Footnoter of Zion: How a BYU-Trained Editor Reframed Mormonism’s Conversation With Its Own Past ✦ ✦ ✦ But first on the agenda: This is a Mormon Stories Podcast interview hosted by John Dehlin, featuring Gary James Bergera — longtime director of Signature Books and the Smith Pettit Foundation — discussing his newly edited book, Educating Zion: The Diaries of…
There is something quietly heroic about what Brewster Kahle and his colleagues set out to do in 1996 — and even more heroic in that they actually did it. At a moment when the rest of the technology world was chasing IPOs and stock options, Kahle looked at the exploding digital universe and asked a…
Why Truth Matters — and Why We Must Share the Gospel Now More Than Ever ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: A Journalist, a Sunset, and the Question Beneath the Question On the morning of May 12, 2026, a producer at The New York Times sat down with her colleague Lauren Jackson, host of the paper’s Believing…
Image: ChatGPT imagines the story from arsTECHNICA: On Friday, Politico reported that one of the country’s biggest data center developments had guzzled nearly 30 million gallons of water without paying for it. Even worse, the water grab came at a time when nearby drought-stricken residents were warned to restrict their personal water consumption, and some reported sudden…
Calling, Election, and Carte Blanche: The Crowning Ordinance Most Mormons Have Never Heard Of I. The Room Behind the Curtain Picture a Sunday evening inside a granite temple, the kind that crowns a hill or anchors a city square. The doors are locked. The visitors’ rooms are empty. The chapels are dark. Somewhere within, in…
Ninth post in the Early Mormon Personalities Series The Watchman on Olivet Orson Hyde — Apostle, Wanderer, and the Long Shadow of an Affidavit 1805 ~ 1878 I. Before Sunrise on the Mount of Olives Before the first light touched the limestone walls of the Old City, a single figure slipped out of Jerusalem through…
Eighth post in the Early Mormon Personalities Series Orson Pratt and the Logical Architecture of Early Mormonism 1811 ~ 1881 I. A Man on a Bridge at Midnight In late August of 1842, on a sticky Illinois night thick with the smell of river mud and prairie smoke, a slender man of thirty walked alone…
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…