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- Highlights from recently leaked documents (2017)
- Asking: What is the complete list of books held in the the vault?
- Millenial Star - Who is the Liar?
- Time and Seasons May 1, 1845 'Mormonism Unveiled
- Time and Seasons November 15, 1844 - An Old Man of Israel
- Address of the Prophet: His Testimony Against the Dissenters at Nauvoo.
- Time and Seasons February 1, 1844 Notice
- The Prophet's Answers to Sundry Questions
- Faith transition coming out letter to family
- Response to Stephen Smoot's believing women article
- Response to evidence in support of the Book of Mormon
- Response to Five Compelling Archeological Evidences For the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim that all originate with Brodie, pt 2, assumptions
- Response to claim that all originate with Brodie, pt 1
- Response to Joseph Smith Foundation video “Part 2: Debunking Rough Stone Rolling's treasure digging sources”
- Response to Russell M. Nelson's October 2022 General Conference Talk “Overcome the World and Find Rest”
- Response to Top 10 Book of Mormon Evidences
- Response to Greg Trimble's 11 questions
- Response to a brother's list of why church is true
- Response to Tad Callister’s talk “The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?”
- Faith of a naturalist: response to “Faith of a Science Teacher” questions
- Former members discuss their anger
- Example Letter from Grandma: 'so much you could accomplish for good
- Stories of Acceptance
- Stories of Traumatic Faith Transitions
- Why former members are angry
- Why do people leave the LDS Church?
- Any Opposed took the minimal action necessary
- August 2020 LDS Church Historian communication on 1949 First Presidency Statement
- Jane Manning James Patriarchal Blessing indicates she has 'a mark' and 'lineage of Cainaan the Son of Ham
- Joseph F. Smith reverses position on Elijah Able's Priesthood ordination
- Paul Reeve: New justifications for the Black Priesthood/Temple ban
- Primary resources on the Priesthood/Temple Ban
- The Pearl of Great Price provided justification for the priesthood ban
- Jonathon Streeter's racism apology Mormon Newsroom hoax
- Quotations suggesting The Book of Abraham was a literal translation attempt
- Resources on the Book of Abraham
- Brian Hauglid argues against missing papyri theory: 'They were working off of the papryri that we actually have in the Church today
- Book of Abraham analogy: Thomas Edison biography from a TV manual in Korean
- Resources on the Book of Enoch
- Laurence's 1821 Book of Enoch may have been available in the US
- Mahijah/Mahujah or Mahujah/Mahujah?
- Alex Douglas “Afterword: The Old Testament and the Book of Mormon”
- Potential sources for the Allegory of the Olive Tree
- Zenos and the Allegory of the Olive Tree
- Angola as a placename in the Book of Mormon
- Charles Anthon's Proper Names and the Book of Mormon
- Joseph Smith January 4, 1833 letter to Noah Saxton formatted according to parallelistic patterns
- Early Mormonism and the Magic Worldview, D. Michael Quinn, footnote 108 on chiasmus
- Summarizing the best arguments against chiasmus as evidence of ancientness
- Columbus was mythologized in a popular 1828 biography
- Common religious issues being discussed in an 1824 publication also found in the Book of Mormon
- Errors represented across both 1611 and 1769 KJV
- Comparison of the Book of Mormon and 1769 King James Bible
- Archaeology of Cumorah
- Dan McClellan on better understanding the Book of Mormon by studying the 19th century literature
- Deficiencies in the Sam Brown model
- Dan McClellan on the documentary hypothesis and Book of Mormon historicity
- Does Haplogroup T indicate transoceanic contact?
- Excerpt: Does Mitochondrial Haplogroup X Indicate Ancient Trans-Atlantic Migration to the Americas? A Critical Re-Evaluation
- Other pre-1830 sources reminiscent of the Book of Mormon
- Ether 13:2 implies a worldwide flood
- LDS scholar Greg Prince on the Book of Mormon
- A short critique of pre-Columbian horses as evidence for the authenticity of the Book of Mormon
- How could Joseph Smith have created the Golden Plates?
- Human Nature in its Fourfold State compared with Moroni 10:32--33
- Influence and inheritance are difficult to establish with certainty for ideas
- Izapa Stela 5 does not support the Book of Mormon
- Jaredite barges and submarines in the early 1800s
- Similarities between Dartmouth professor John Smith's writings and the Book of Mormon (astronatusaurus posts 1-10)
- Joseph Smith Sr. jailed with Eli Bruce, apparent murderer of William Morgan
- Colby Townsend on Joseph Smith’s Use of Adam Clarke in the Book of Mormon
- Scholar Survey: King James Version translation errors in Book of Mormon Isaiah passages
- 1825 Anti-theist rhetoric: “A Second Call to Unbelievers”
- Caricature or Critic? Rethinking Korihor as a Proxy for Modern Naturalism
- Abial Fisher, Jr., 1816 sermon: “The Existence of God.”
- Recent LDS Scholar observations favoring a modern origin for the Book of Mormon
- Legrand Richards in 'Your Fringe Benefits' compares secular research on the Americas to the history learned from the Book of Mormon
- The First Colesville Letter: Transcript and Biblical allusions
- The Second Colesville Letter: Transcript and Biblical allusions
- Book of Mormon parallels to 1800s thought
- Laundry List of Issues Regarding Moroni's Promise
- Who is doing the loan shifting?
- Solomon Spaulding 'Manuscript Found' box excerpt
- A short critique of discovered metal tablets as evidence for the authenticity of the Book of Mormon
- The Book of Mormon as Mound Builder Mythology
- NHM (Nahom) as evidence for the ancientness of the Book of Mormon
- Comparison of the Narrative of Zosimus with the Bible
- Transcript: Narrative of Zosimus
- The New Testament in the Book of Mormon: Excerpts from Laura Hales's interview of BYU Religion Professor Nick Frederick
- Bill Davis: Evidence of Oral Revision during the Dictation of the Book of Mormon
- Palmyra was rich in books
- Book of Mormon parallels with Solomon Spalding's Oberlin Manuscript
- Place names near or somewhat near Joseph Smith
- The premortal existence in pre-1830's thought
- How likely was trito-Isaiah to have been avoided at random in the Book of Mormon translation?
- Problems with the expansionist model
- Moroni quotes sections of Mark that are of dubious origin
- Reasons to discount aspects of Emma's testimony of the creation of the Book of Mormon
- Response to LDS Living article on Evidence supporting the Book of Mormon
- Richard Bushman on 19th century phrasing and theology in the Book of Mormon
- Royal Skousen: cultural milieu dates to late 1600s
- Royal Skousen: Is the Book of Mormon English translation a literal translation of what was on the plates?
- Royal Skousen: Protestant concerns in the Book of Mormon
- Similarities between King Benjamin's speech and the early 1800s milieu
- Stephen Smoot acknowledges King James Version errors in the Book of Mormon
- Statements related to Book of Mormon geography
- Letter from Stephen Blanchard to Ethan Smith
- The Book of Mormon, the twelve points of Pelagianism, and Protestant thought in the early 1800s
- The context of Emma Smith's Book of Mormon witness
- Pre-1830 teachings of felix culpa (fortunate fall)
- “The Principles of Nature” Challenge
- Excerpt on Isaiah from Hardy's Reader's Guide
- The translation of [the plates] ... is correct
- Could Joseph have hidden material in his hat to draw upon during the dictation process?
- Could Joseph Smith have used the Bible during the dictation process?
- FairMormon Response: Has the Church tried to hide Joseph's use of a seer stone?
- The first part of the Book of Mormon was likely produced in an upstairs room of Peter Whitmer’s home
- How could Joseph Smith have composed the Book of Mormon?
- Hyrum Smith attended Moor's Indian Charity School
- Was Joseph Smith intellectually and educationally capable of authoring the Book of Mormon?
- McConkie and Ostler argue against the seer stone
- Brent Metcalfe: Joseph and Oliver were consulting the Book of Mormon manuscript
- Religious interest and capability suggested by Joseph Smith's 1832 statement and 1830 Colseville letters
- Eyewitnesses claiming the seer stone was used to translate the Book of Mormon
- Stephen Clarke's notes on Hyrum Smith at Moor's Charity School
- The Book of Mormon translation process in summary
- The BOM is true because it was written so quickly - VS - The Quran is true because it took so long to write
- Models for the creation of the Book of Mormon
- Asking experts about Miller et al. 2022
- View of the Hebrews and Book of Mormon: Textual Comparison (ChatGPT Analysis)
- When was 'repair' removed from Alma 39:13?
- William Davis on Early Modern English in the Book of Mormon
- 1838 Danite Manifesto
- 1846 Millenial Star Excerpt: Sketches of Notorious Characters, Martin Harris
- Chart of Book of Mormon Translation Witness Statements
- Excerpt from Letter to the Church in Caldwell County regarding the Three Witnesses
- Lucy Harris's Testimony
- Evaluating Zemnarihah's execution--is chopping down of the tree evidence favoring an ancient Book of Mormon?
- Books donated by Joseph Smith to the Nauvoo Library and Literary Institute
- Academic Bibles and where to read them
- Problems with Christianity from a former LDS perspective
- Conclusion: God and the LDS Church as surrogate parent
- Endorsements
- The demand for certainty
- Difference between faith and knowledge
- Faith, the conversation stopper
- Confidence faith vs. religious faith: personal reflections on faith, hope, and love
- The efficacy of LDS Priesthood Blessings
- Report, chronicles, and presentation on LDS faith crises
- A Prophet doesn't poll to see wind of public opinion
- We are not a wealthy people
- The Apologetic Slide
- Elder Bednar and the April 6th Birthday of Jesus
- Comparing scriptural and modern prophets
- Science is as substantive as religion in helping us to derive morality's ought
- Effecting change from within the LDS Church -- is it really possible?
- Wicca and confirmation bias
- Featherstone's vision of the South
- Prophecy: Not long until calamities overtake human family
- Why won't God stop Mike Norton?
- Did Holland Lie? Semantic analysis of Jeffrey R. Holland's discussion with John Sweeney about Mitt Romney's Temple Oaths
- BYU-I dresses cheerleaders modestly
- Analogy between the LDS and a magic worldview
- Factors in LDS leadership selection
- Legrand Richards denied the existence of the seerstone
- Leonard Arrington documents suppressive attitudes towards LDS history
- Lester Bush's research on the priesthood/temple ban was discouraged
- Hugh Nibley discovers his daughter left the Church
- Matt Harris on LDS transparency
- Bruce R. McConkie misled in public about the teaching of the Adam God theory
- McConkie: no secret doctrines, no private practices
- Why don't Mormons have paid clergy page removed
- Nelson attributes goodness in Paradise to those believing in God, but most are not religious
- “No apostate who ever left ... prospered as an influence in his community thereafter”
- You should have known vs. be wary of critical sources
- The Spirit of Discernment
- Suicide and hell: an old sectarian notion?
- James E. Talmage's 1916 prediction on records of the Lost Tribes of Israel
- The Church does not apologize
- Healings: Comparing James and Albert Talmage's stories
- Transparency in the modern LDS Church
- How transparent was LDS Church with living allowances
- Unpaid clergy anecdotes
- An objective investigation
- Chronology: “You can leave but you can't leave it alone”
- The Proclamation on the Family: Scripture or Revelation?
- Resources on the Family Proclamation
- The 1832 First Vision account was suppressed between 11 and ~30 years
- Apparent contradiction in Joseph Smith's account of considering all sects wrong
- Links to First Vision accounts, essay, and responses
- Similar First Vision accounts
- Gospel Fundamentals (2002): Creating New Worlds and God as Once a Man
- Hermetically Sealed Systems in LDS Thought
- Joseph was consulting Adam Clarke's Commentary in creation of the JST
- Responses to Joseph Smith relying on Clarke for JST
- JS Papers commentary on Joseph Smith's Translation of the Kinderhook Plates
- Mennonite apology for treatment of LGBTQ people
- “‘God made them that way’—It is blasphemy”: LDS Statements on the causes and cure for homosexuality
- Resources related to non gender-binary
- Light and Truth Response pt 1: Manipulation and Fallacies
- Light and Truth Response pt 2: The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon
- Light and Truth Response pt 3: Linguistic Evidence
- 2017 Seminary end-of-year survey
- Avoidance: the preferred conflict resolution behavior of Latter-day Saints
- bwv549 banned from the lds subreddit
- Behavior or teachings of David Bednar that some former members find objectionable
- Resources related to David Ostler's book “Bridges: Ministering to Those Who Question”
- Brigham discusses honesty in women during Q12 meeting
- LDS Church discourages make-up
- The LDS garment and modesty
- How does the LDS Church divide families?
- Infallibility
- The logic of our family interview policy
- Notes on LDS mixed-faith marriages
- A response to Mark S. Palmer's April 2025 General Conference ‘Willow’ talk
- A Critical Review of T. Heath Ogden’s Chapter ‘Accepting Evolution with Joy Is Possible’
- Saints is not for scholars or sophisticated Mormons
- The LDS practice of soaking is real
- “Important to take the sacrament with the right hand”
- The Fault in Faulty Assumptions
- The world's view of happiness
- Unparallels and the hypergeometric distribution
- What NOT to say to your LDS believing family members
- Morality is an emergent principle
- Morality Transcends Religious Belief
- Motivation to resign from the LDS Church
- Major sources of beliefs, light and knowledge
- Summary of my beliefs relative to core LDS doctrine
- Familiarity with LDS scholarship
- Indicators of my dedication and spiritual development
- Response to Jim Bennett's response about the angel with a drawn sword
- Cheryl L. Bruno: Contemporary Sources for Joseph Smith Polygamy
- Excerpt: Sexuality in Joseph Smith's Plural Marriages
- Contemporary evidence that Joseph Smith practiced polygamy
- 1835 Doctrine and Covenants 101:4
- Millenial Star denial, August 1842
- Three Nights' Public Discussion: John Taylor
- Affidavits against Bennett's letters: focus on Martha Brotherton
- Assessing the accuracy of Martha Brotherton's affidavit
- Critique of Richard and Pamela Price analysis of Martha Brotherton
- Martha Brotherton and the Five Ironies
- How did Joseph Smith's wives refer to their unions?
- Joseph Smith's Polygamy Denials
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on Joseph Smith's polygamy: “Obviously he lied.”
- A Critique of Joseph Smith's Polygamy: 'Thou Shalt not Lie' and Denials of Polygamy
- Response to Brian Hales about Bays and the 1835 statement on marriage
- What to call the polygamy denials?
- Evidence suggesting Emma approved of some marriages
- Sealing for eternity only
- Evidence of sex within Joseph Smith's polygamy
- Helen Mar Kimball Whitney 1881 Autobiography
- Did Helen Mar Kimball misunderstand the promises Joseph Smith made to her?
- Joseph Smith's polygamy and current LDS principles of marriage and honesty
- The case for Joseph Smith as sexual predator analysis
- Arguing that Joseph Smith did practice polygamy
- Joseph Smith instructed others to destroy communication
- Joseph Smith's Marriage/Sealing Dates
- Those who knew about plural marriage but not sealed
- Last Testimony of Sister Emma
- Lucy Walker 1888 autobiography in Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints
- Notes on Nancy Marinda Johnson Hyde marriage to Joseph Smith
- The October 5, 1843 Journal Entry
- Saints Volume 1: The Partridge Sisters' second sealing to Joseph Smith
- The primary focus of the sealing ceremony in its first 2 years was to enable polygamy
- Polygamy for raising up seed?
- Logic behind the sealing ceremony
- The extent to which Joseph Smith's polygamy was taught in LDS Institute Manuals
- Why did Joseph not sire children with his plural wives?
- William Holmes Walker not sealed by JS to Olive Hovey Farr
- Men whose wives were married by Joseph Smith after being sent on a mission
- Zina Huntington Jacobs Smith Young interview in the Saints' Herald
- Bill Reel and Stake President ask five questions to LDS leadership
- The All Powerful Partition Algorithm
- Musings on Same Sex Marriage
- Adam “the first man of all men” and “father of all living in his day”
- The April 1910 Priesthood Quorums' Table entry 'Origin of Man' is likely misconstrued to be a First Presidency Statement
- Bruce R. McConkie taught 'No Death Before the Fall
- Carbon-14 dating is generally reliable
- Chronology of my views on evolution and LDS doctrine
- Discussion on a global flood at 2348 BCE
- email transcript: “Noah's flood: the case for a faithful LDS interpretation as a local flood”
- Examples of bad science spread by Mormons
- Explain how it was made: Shroud of Turin and BoM apologetics
- The Flood as the Earth's Baptism: origin in LDS thought
- Earth's fossils did not come from chunks of other planets
- George McCready Price inspired the 'No death before the Fall' teachings of Joseph Fielding Smith
- Joseph Smith's cure for cholera
- Resources related to science claims
- Exchange regarding evidence for evolution of humans
- Exchange on man as animal and the 1910 Priesthood Quorum's table comment as a reflection of Joseph F. Smith's thinking on evolution
- Thank you R. Gary
- The 6000 year problem
- The Missouri Garden of Eden Problem
- Believing in God based on miracles
- When did Adam and Eve live?
- Why we have confidence in science
- A secular prophecy for our time
- Statements on building up Jackson county
- Modern LDS second coming expectations and predictions
- Second coming expectations in the early LDS Church
- Irene Bates patriarchal blessing theme table
- Reasons for skepticism of second coming predictions
- Proposed survey on divine manifestations
- Why be skeptical of reports of LDS Apostles seeing Jesus?
- 2019 Divine Visitation Survey
- The Divine Visitor Problem: Objectivity, intersubjective identity, and identification
- The LDS Church ban on oral sex
- Example of masturbation shame
- Why is sex linked to morality?
- Elder Bednar: “you don't have to recognize that you are receiving revelation in the moment that you are receiving revelation”
- Kyle S. McKay letter excerpt on spiritual experiences
- President Nelson on “the principle of revelation”: “write the thoughts that come to your mind... record your feelings”
- 5 Questions about spiritual experiences and real intent
- Spiritual confirmations received since leaving the LDS Church
- The parts of an LDS spiritual experience
- Resources on faith, spiritual witnesses, and epistemology
- Surprise as a rubric for deciding communication from the Holy Ghost
- Testimony, spiritual experiences, and truth: A careful examination
- "A Different Way of Knowing": The uses of irrationality ... and its limitations
- Types of Latter-day Saint Spiritual Experiences
- The LDS Endowment and Freemasonry
- Are members breaking promises when they leave the LDS Church?
- Origins of the phrase: "All truth may be circumscribed into one great whole"
- The 50/50 Scenario
- The Dominant Narrative and Apologetic Fallback
- The 6 Sources of Revelation
- Perhaps asking whether the Church is a cult is not the best question?
- Luna Lindsey on polarization of cultic studies
- Pressure against expression of beliefs counter to LDS position - Wally's Mom
- Most members don't seem to care about Church issues
- Example of totalistic attitude: accomplishments only important if building kingdom
- Example of invasive interview: facebook stalking
- Listen to a recording of your testimony
- Pinegar deals with unhappy missionary
- Example of totalistic attitude: The worst sin
- Savannah's testimony
- The three-fold nature of the LDS Church: corporate, totalistic, and individual-growth
- Ellipsis in tithing statement of the 2013 Lorenzo Snow manual
- On the efficacy of paying tithing
- Bushman on magic and treasure digging from friendly sources
- Sarah Allen's (dice1899) response to the CES Letter
- Examples to avoid or discourage consulting unapproved sources
- Five Key Facts: my conclusions
- Truth-claim summaries and apologetics
- Individuals in the past 100 years who claim to have seen Jesus Christ
- On the existence of ghosts
- Test for disembodied consciousness
- Simple 14 word test for prophetic ability
- Vetting (Potentially) Divine Visitors: An Information-Theoretic and Cognitive Framework
- Vetting (potentially) divine visitors
- What I've taught my older children about LDS truth claims
- Why does it matter?
- Mixed messages on working outside the home
- Sexual violence more prominent in patriarchal cultures
- Why modesty rhetoric may be harmful
- Subordination of women to men in the LDS Church
- Rationale for the Word of Wisdom
- Letter to parents: Thoughts on the Word of Wisdom
- Excerpts from “Means of Preserving Health and Preventing Diseases” and the Word of Wisdom
- Alcohol usage among Latter-day Saint Prophets
- Health studies on alcohol consumption
- Health studies on coffee
- Health studies on tea
- Influences on the Word of Wisdom: Hot Drinks
- Current prohibitionist attitude of LDS Church
- Notes on mild drinks always being okay for early Word of Wisdom
- Excerpt from 'A Social History of the Nation's Favourite Drink
- Beit-Hallahmi on mystical experiences
- Lamport on homeophathic automobile repair shops
- Beit-Hallahmi on developing a moral compass
- Beit-Hallahmi on religiously inspired altruism
- Beit-Hallahmi on religious biases
- Subtle discrimination as harmful as overt
- Beit-Hallahmi on the lessons of history argument
- Beit-Hallahmi on the religious engagement paradox
- Excerpt from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Harari: On Religion
- Excerpt from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Harari: The Secular Ideal
- The significance of the seer stone for LDS truth-claims
- You can leave the Church but you can't leave it alone
- Questions to Ask
- LDS Retentive Socialization
- Five Key Facts
- To peek behind the curtain: the decision to critically investigate LDS truth-claims