Oliver Cowdery was solid except…
We saw in a previous post how certain LDS intellectuals apply logical and factual fallacies to reject Lucy Mack Smith’s account regarding […]
Book review of Infinite Goodness
The youtube channel Mormon Book Reviews has released a review of Infinite Goodness that everyone should watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeAfovfEu9A As Steve says in […]
Understanding Church History by Study and Faith – part 2
A few years ago I wrote a short book titled Mesomania. I discussed how the obsession with Mesoamerica has shaped the worldview […]
Lucy Mack Smith was solid except…
Lucy Mack Smith Those Latter-day Saints who are familiar with Lucy Mack Smith universally admire her determination and faithfulness. She suffered tremendous […]
We don’t talk about Cumorah
In Encanto, we don’t talk about Bruno. https://youtu.be/bvWRMAU6V-c?t=157 When among M2C scholars, we don’t talk about Cumorah. Source: Letter VII
Understanding Church History by Study and Faith – part 1
In 2017, the Ensign published an article titled “Understanding Church History by Study and Faith” by Keith A. Erekson, Church History Library […]
Neurophysiology and M2C
Many readers of this blog have noticed that whenever the topics of the Mesoamerican/two-Cumorahs theory (M2C) or the stone-in-the-hat (SITH) arise in […]
Free energy and multiple working hypotheses
Two miles north of my house here in Oregon, a research project is underway that holds the potential for producing constant, carbon-free, […]
Burden of deciding
A thoughtful piece in the Wall St. Journal discussed the burden of deciding. The context was the conflicting expert advice about covid […]
Original Manuscript: Vol 5 of JSP, but full of agenda-driven content
The long-anticipated volume of the Joseph Smith Papers containing the Original Manuscript was released in December 2021. It’s available at Deseret Book […]