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Yes, this is the actual title of Joshua Kim’s associated content article. An article he recently published on June 13, … Continue reading »  Read More →

LDS Church Examiner and founder of Society for the Prevention of Anti-Mormonism Gregory West posted a discussion at S.P.A.M about a recent event. This event happened at Pastor John Hagee’s Church – Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. Pastor Hagee … Continue reading →  Read More →

We spent an hour with Gary Lawrence last night. He was gracious enough to come up to visit our stake in Camarillo from his home in Orange County. Dr. Lawrence is an American opinion pollster who also happens to be a Latter-day Saint. He has been travelling around the church sharing the results of a poll he conducted in the spring of 2007 on American’s perception of Latter-day Saints in the United States. He published a book in 2008 with the findings of his poll, How Americans View Mormonism: Seven Steps to Improve Our Image. Dr. Lawrence received a PhD in communications psychology from Stanford University in 1972. He said that of over twenty doctoral candidates in his group, he was the only LDS, Republican, conservative hawk among them. So he knows a little about being in the minority. Lawrence Research Now if you know anything about recent events in California, you’ll recognize that Gary’s business, Lawrence Research was the opinion polling company that was heavily involved in Proposition... Read the rest of this entry »

Reaching for straws – meaning straw man arguments that is. Another report from an anonymous “lurker” on the Christian Apologetic Research Ministry Mormon Discussion forum has sent me this disturbing post, and subsequent responses. The title of the Post is “The Mormon Pioneers” Catherine Aurelia initially posts the following for discussion: You know, for years [...]  Read More →

I’ve been reading the arguments on MormonThink.com off and on for several years now.  I have a lot of respect for the individuals behind the site, even though most of them choose to be anonymous.  I am confident that I have been visited by several of the contributors there or at least by those who read their site and others like it such as Ex Mormon and Post Mormon. I am by no means a scholar or intellectual.  I think I’m pretty smart and that I’m pretty good with logic.  After all, I have made a living for thirty years demystifying computers for others.  But I know there are a lot of people out there who are smarter than I am and who have the academic credentials to prove it.  I like to think that I’m just a regular, average, typical Latter-day Saint. I like smart, thinking people and especially people who present logical conclusions well, either in writing or verbally.  Critical thinking is a skill that I am constantly striving to improve.  I confess that I am impressed... Read the rest of this entry »

One of the questions a member of the LDS Faith may be asked is this: How can there be an apostasy of the early Christian Church if Jesus Christ said that he will build his church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it? Many times, this question is shrouded with a more [...]  Read More →