Looking at Blessings…

The oddest thing for me is how the LDS belief in healing works.
Meaning, LDS believe there are three types of sick people:
1. People whom God isn’t going to heal. No matter how much praying or blessing you do, it’s their time, and God will take them or allow them to finish their lives with some [...]

“Others” in the BoM: Michael Ash and MormonTimes

In a recent article on “MormonTimes”, LDS apologist Michael Ash tackles the problem of “Others” in the Book of Mormon.  The problem being that the book doesn’t clearly acknowledge there being existing peoples and civilizations when the Lehites landed.
Why aren’t other peoples mentioned in the Book of Mormon?
For reasons I do not know, Ash declined [...]

“Mormon Scholars Testify”

Recently, a website was created to facilitate Testimony sharing for LDS scholars and scientists:
Mormon Scholars Testify
The Church has its own website where Prophets and Apostles have published countless testimonies, each of them fervent and heartfelt.  So why would a separate website be needed for the LDS intelligentsia?
It would seem that sometimes “scholarly” issues appear to [...]

The Curious Case of the Church Website

Many members of the Church struggle with polygamy, but apparently none moreso than the editors of the Church website.  I can only imagine the long meetings discussing how much detail should be included about the practice, with debates raging about openness and propriety.
A good example is the “Presidents of the Church” page on the Church [...]