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Andres Gonzalez, 19, stands on the balcony of his Los Angeles apartment, his hands in his suit pockets. It is his first week as a missionary, but today, instead of approaching people on the street, he is shooting a video that he will later post to social media. After about a dozen takes, he is succ...

If we want to get into real problems with the organization of the LDS Church, let’s discuss the lack of a Smith patriarch. As Brigham himself said, without a patriarch over the Church, the Church is not fully organized. The LDS Church is not fully organized as I type this post. It has been in this ...

Yet what are they to do if their prophet tells them the word Mormon is Satanic? They can resume the word Mormon and continue to eat ham once a future prophet gives the all clear signal. Did a president say the word was Satanic? If that's true then the church has created this problem. People are jus...

Missionaries are now being taught how to trawl social media to find people they can groom into letting missionaries into their homes. They’re using members Facebook connections and groups to slot in their leading questions etc. if you are “friends” with a serving missionary on any social media platf...

You're right, of course. Unfortunately for him, me, and maybe the board, I always have hope. I see my brother in MG. In fact, have to continuously remind myself that MG is not my literal bother. My brother has the same responses, the same tactics, the same style, the same beliefs. And I love him de...

If we break down every single choice a person makes and determine whether that choice was made using free will, we would fine that that would vary. We have a sense of freedom will with things like how we wear our clothes. The limitation is the availability of clothes that we own. So owning the clot...

FAIR doesn’t portray the event as quite so miraculous. some Saints specifically state that as Brigham Young addressed the congregation he sounded and appeared remarkably like Joseph Smith, others simply say that the “mantle of Joseph” or “of the prophets” rested on Brigham Young, and others state th...

In my judgment, the available evidence is persuasive that the story of Brigham’s transfiguration was being told quite early, and it’s difficult to imagine that so many testimonies over so long a period and from such far-flung areas emerged from a conspiracy to deceive or from a mysterious “contagio...

Do people have free will in how they respond to criticism or a bit of raillery? Or are they programmed into predictable responses? A fellow I know compulsively sorts everyone online into either believers in a 'creator God,' or hopelessly nihilistic atheists. This same fellow has a seeming inability...

Does the 7 year old child of Mormon parents in Utah really have a free will choice about being baptised at 8 years old? Does the born-in-the-the church married man, with a Mormon spouse, Mormon parents, a Mormon boss at work, and a social group entirely consisting of Mormons, have a free will choic...