Why "correspondences" don’t work
One way to reach consensus is to boil down arguments to their essence and test them. If you read arguments in favor […]
Cognitive blindness
I’ve been working on Church history and Book of Mormon issues for the last two years or so, but I’ve been working […]
Another day at the office
Despite our best efforts to prevent anyone from learning about the false tradition Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery started when they wrote […]
Moses was a Mayan
We don’t know how many people noticed this, but we can now announce that Moses–the Moses of the Ten Commandments, who wrote […]
Repeated teachings
I’ve been reading the report of the 45th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium at BYU, published in the book titled Foundations of […]
Orson Pratt’s 1879 footnotes
Sometimes people still cite Orson Pratt’s Book of Mormon footnotes to support either (i) their own hemispheric or Latin American geography theories […]
Piling up confirmation bias and don’t confuse me with the facts
Occasionally I still run into someone who is convinced the Book of Mormon took place in Central America (Mesoamerica). This is much […]
Don’t be a Cumorah denier
You might start noticing this graphic showing up in the near future. Of course, readers of this blog aren’t Cumorah deniers anyway, […]
Cumorah deniers are still at work
Earlier this week, the Cumorah deniers at Book of Mormon Central (BOMC) just added a classic Cumorah-denier article to their archive. Anyone […]
Cumorah deniers and relative directions in the Book of Mormon
This is just a brief note on a common misunderstanding of directions in the Book of Mormon. People have been trying to […]