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I don't have anything to add, Billy. Just wow. Fascinating and good work.

Just one comment from me about the letter. Notice how she cherry picked an incomplete portion of scripture. That's really all I have to say. I'm amazed how often Rom 8:28-39 is misused by people who are clearly acting in the wrong. I once saw it used in concluding the blog post of a relatively succ...

At any rate, I think this disparity in outrage over the demise of Joseph Smith vs. Jesus proves that Joseph Smith is a deity of sorts and these thoughts must circle in their minds during the last weeks of December. It's rather odd how they observe, to some extent, both the birth of Joseph Smith and...

Oh Lord. I just watched the trailer. It's like if every bad Christian film had an orgy with a Mormon, then had a mutant baby. But I actually kind of love bad movies (MST3K forever!), so now I feel rather compelled to see it. Also, my husband loves bad shark movies (no, I don't know what I'm doing wi...

So the contrast here is Carthage, which is now a Mormon tourist attraction, versus Nauvoo, which is . . . a much bigger Mormon tourist attraction? I have no doubt Joseph Smith is far better known than Thomas Ford, but you would be surprised how many people neither know nor want to know about Joseph ...

Pretty sad occurrence (despite all of the lulzdumbrichpeople posts). The 19yo was reportedly terrified of going, but wanted to please his father. The only silver lining here is that they all died before they knew anything was wrong, and did not suffer. This incident sent me down the rabbit hole of s...

I thought the Sandman TV series was some phenomenal storytelling.

I really liked the American Gods novel, but the first season of the series was just okay. I haven't watched any more of it yet.

Hi Sara, Welcome to the forum! I've written a few things on this topic that you might find interesting: My false, pagan, so-called Christian church of men (note: I was married to a Mormon when I wrote this; I am not anymore) On the Christianity (or lack thereof) of Mormonism I'd say more but I'm on ...

Here is my friend Kristeen Black's essay on priesthood in Alma 13, which has some similarities to my essay:

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/article ... -holiness/

Nope. Priesthood is only mentioned in passing once in Alma 4 then more fully in Alma 13--and the priesthood taught there is arguably a priesthood of all believers. The reasons why are obvious: Joseph Smith was still in his Quasi-Protestant phase, and he had not yet realized that "modern-day revelati...