Author: Aaron Shafovaloff
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Are Christians More Concerned About Doctrine Than Obedience?
A friend once said, “I think LDS see us this way though – more concerned about right belief than right living.” First, let me make clear that in the common Mormon mind, the alternative to this is being more concerned about right living than right belief. This thinking has essentially produced a kind of postmodernism…
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Three Passages That Should Impact Christian Evangelism and Public Dialog
Titus 2:15: Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. An ambassador for Christ should deliver the word of God with authority. The impression should be given that what is being communicated in scripture1 is ultimately God’s perspective, and that God seriously means what He says. An alternative is to speak in a way…
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Is Mormonism Biblical?
Source: Gordon H. Fraser, The Fields at Home, ed. Peter F. Gunther (Chicago: Moody Press, 1963), 123–34. GORDON H. FRASER first came into touch with the Mormons in 1932 while doing missionary work under the American Sunday-School Union in western Washington. Since then he has had numerous contacts with the Mormon Church in eastern Idaho,…
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G. K. Chesterton on Mormonism
G. K. Chesterton critiques the exaggerated fears of Mormon polygamy in England, but warns of a dangerous error—a material, embodied view of God that stands in stark opposition to the eternal, sovereign Creator of Scripture.
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“Untrue.” Statement by Salt Lake City Ministers.
Salt Lake City, Utah.November 8th, 1919. To the Commercial Club of Salt Lake City, Utah. Gentlemen:—Our attention having been called to certain statements now being widely circulated through American newspapers as coming from Winifred Graham, an English novelist, charging that the commonly called “Mormon Church” is still practising polygamy and is bringing hundreds of young…
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The Mormon Field, by Charles L. Thompson
Source: Charles Lemuel Thompson, The Soul of America: The Contribution of Presbyterian Home Missions (New York: Revell, 1919), 110-117. Google Books link. The Mormon field is far too extensive and insistent to permit of indifference on the part of the Christian Church. If it were only the fanatical dream of a few visionaries in the…
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Utah, by Josiah McClain
Josiah McClain, Utah (New York: Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1900), Columbia University Libraries. Internet Archive link. Utah ByRev. Josiah McClainSynodical Superintendent The Story of Utah—Early History A complete story of Utah never can be written, because some of the facts necessary are not now within reach and never…
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Ten Reasons Why Christians Can Not Fellowship the Mormon Church
In 1897, the Presbytery of Utah, backed by Congregational and Baptist associations, outlined ten reasons why Christians cannot fellowship with the Mormon Church.
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Methods of Mormon Missionaries
By William R. Campbell Source: “Methods of Mormon Missionaries,” in Our Day, vol. 19 (Boston: Our Day Publishing Company, 1900). Originally published 1888. Google Books link. SINCE the Mormons have been increasing at such a great ratio the past few years, it is interesting and important to know the secret of this phenomenal growth. My…
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An Interview with William Law
Introduction William Law joined the LDS Church in 1836 and received the Melchizedek Priesthood in 1837. He was quite active in church matters and served two missions. In 1841 he was called by “revelation” to be Joseph Smith’s second counselor and in 1842 he would arrive in Nauvoo (IL), to become a successful businessman. Though…
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Christian Work in Utah (1881)
Printed by the Woman’s Home Missionary Association. 1881. It may be an encouragement to our faith in the utter overthrow of Mormonism, to look a little into the work of the various Christian denominations in Utah. It is an established fact that the parents are best reached through the children, and our friends of the…
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The Christian Reconstruction of Utah
Source: R. G. McNiece, “The Christian Reconstruction of Utah,” in The Preacher and Homiletic Monthly, vol. 4, ed. I. K. Funk (New York: I. K. Funk & Co., 1880), 641-642. Google Books link. BY REV. R. G. MCNIECE, IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SALT LAKE CITY. But it came to pass that, when Sanballat heard that…
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A Week in “Great Salt Lake City”, by Henry Kendall
Henry Kendall, “A Week in Great Salt Lake City,” Hours at Home 1 (May 1865): 63-66. § Great Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah Territory, the great stopping place between the Mississippi and Pacific, is also the point of divergence for those who would reach the new-discovered mines of Montana and Idaho, or Walla-Walla…
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The Nauvoo Expositor
NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 7, 1844. We give this week to the following Preamble, Resolutions and Affidavits, of the Seceders from the Church at Nauvoo.– The request is complied with on account of their deeming it very important that the public should know the true cause of their dissenting, as all manner of falsehood is spread…