Category: Mormonism
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Joseph Smith for President
There’s another movie about Mormonism in the works. A French magazine reports, A Mormon President, the first documentary film to explore the Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith’s campaign for the US Presidency and its implications for the candidacy of another Mormon, Mitt Romney, has begun production and is slated for a fall 2007 release. Filmmaker Adam…
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The Awful Works of Abraham
A decade after plural marriage was announced publicly in a special session of conference, Brigham Young declared, “Why do we believe in and practise polygamy? Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord’s servants have always practiced it. ‘And is that religion popular in heaven?’…
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Shame on Sharpton, Shame on Romney
There are times when listening to people in the public arena that I feel like I’m back on the playground at Bostonia elementary school in the 1960s. Case in point: the “Reverend” Al Sharpton decides to take a swipe at Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney by saying, “as for the one Mormon running for office,…
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Book Review: A Mormon in the White House? 10 Things Every American Should Know About Mitt Romney
By Hugh Hewitt Review by Eric Johnson
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Validating Post-Mormons
The LDS Church has had a rough month. It started with the March 25th outreach effort of Christians across the nation distributing thousands of DVDs on doorsteps which compared Mormonism with the Bible. Soon after that, the Church released a statement of their concern over the content of an upcoming PBS series titled “The Mormons”…
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Mormon Behavior, Mormon Speak
Today’s (9 April) New York Times carries an op-ed piece by Kenneth Woodward about Mitt Romney and Mormonism. A large portion of the article is dedicated to understanding why Americans are uncomfortable with Mr. Romney’s religion. Mr. Woodward writes: Among the reasons Americans distrust the Mormon church is Mormon clannishness. Because every worthy Mormon male…
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Disruption by Revelation
John Singer was a Mormon with seven children. He and his wife, Vickie, lived west of Salt Lake City on their 2.5 acre farm in Marion, Utah. Dissatisfied with the public school system in the 1970s, Mr. Singer confronted school officials after seeing a picture in one of his children’s textbooks. It was a photo…
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Should We Dwell On Similarities?
In recent years some within the Christian and Mormon community have been espousing a method of mutual understanding that urges dialogue revolving around common ground rather than discussions that make a clear distinction between Mormonism and the Christian faith. To imply that a Mormon could be wrong and run the risk of offense is considered…
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LDS Church Reports Growth
The National Council of Churches Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2007 edition has just been released, reporting new church membership numbers and growth trends on 224 “national church bodies.” An online press release provides a taste of the information contained in the 439-page Yearbook, including membership and growth statistics for 25 of the largest…
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Priesthood Restored or Retrofit?
By Lane Thuet Listen
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Mormon Polygamy: Comedy or Tragedy?
All over the news this weekend, all across the globe, was an Associated Press article about the polygamy of Mitt Romney’s ancestors. Journalists Jennifer Dobner and Glen Johnson have written an article that not only details the multiple marriages of Mr. Romney’s great- and great-great grandparents, but also takes a look at the history of…
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“We’re Christians just like you!”
By Bill McKeever
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The "Anti-Mormon" Tactic
Over the weekend the Salt Lake Tribune posted an opinion piece titled “Romney candidacy will stir up anti-Mormon feeling”. The author, Tom Williams, begins, Am I the only practicing Mormon who’s not excited about Mitt Romney’s run for president? It’s not like his first order of business will be a $10,000 tax credit for all…
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Brigham Young’s Lecture at the Veil
It was 130 years ago today that LDS recorder L. John Nuttall, by order of Brigham Young, transcribed the Lecture at the Veil in the St. George, Utah Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Lecture at the Veil was a lesson at the end of the LDS endowment ceremony which…
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Understanding Ex-Cultists
By Janis Hutchinson www.janishutchinson.com In an explosion of emotion a former cultist suddenly burst out: "If I had known what I was going to go through in adjusting to Christianity, I never would have left the Mormon Church!"
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The Fastest Growing Church in the World?
Does accelerated growth of a group somehow validate that what the group teaches is true? To many Latter-day Saints, the growth (or perceived growth) of their church is evidence that the restored gospel of Mormonism must be true. No one doubts that the LDS Church is a growing church and for this reason alone every…
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Tithing by Coercion
By Bill McKeever Most people would be offended at any organization which teaches that in order to escape damnation, giving of your financial means is mandatory. Yet, this is exactly what Mormonism teaches.
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The Faith of Brigham Young
Compiled by Bill McKeever
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The Great Apostasy
Since the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded in 1830, it has maintained that Christ’s church fell into what has been described as a complete apostasy. Though LDS leaders cannot agree as to when this actually happened, they do agree that it must have happened. Many LDS leaders have made reference to…