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- Asking: What is the complete list of books held in the the vault?
- Never love your wives one hair's breadth further than they adorn the Gospel
- 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 March 15, 1844
- Time and Seasons February 1, 1844 Notice
- Letter to editor from 'H. R.' - Times and Seasons, 15 March 1843
- On Marriage - 1842 Times and Seasons vol 3, no 23
- Time and Seasons Sept 1842 Notice
- Conference Minutes from April 6, 1842
- The Prophet's Answers to Sundry Questions
- Careful the Compassionate and the Dragon over the Mountain
- Consequences of leaving the group tend to be proportional to the level of totalism
- Former members discuss their anger
- Spencer W. Kimball on the effects of Excommunication
- No-fail responses to critical comments
- Former members treated differently than members at BYU
- How Latter-day Saints are viewed by former Mormons
- How those who leave the LDS Church are viewed
- Discussion and Conclusions: How those who leave the LDS Church are viewed
- Attitude towards those who do not believe but stay
- Example Letter from Grandma: 'so much you could accomplish for good
- Stories of Acceptance
- Stories of Traumatic Faith Transitions
- The Shunning Key: Whom Latter-day Saints shun and why
- 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
- 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”
- 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
- 1837. Messenger and Advocate, vol. 3, no. 8
- Millenial Star denial, August 1842
- 1844 Millenial Star polygamy denial
- Three Nights' Public Discussion: John Taylor
- Affidavits against Bennett's letters: focus on Martha Brotherton
- Assessing the accuracy of Martha Brotherton's affidavit
- Martha Brotherton Affidavit
- Critique of Richard and Pamela Price analysis of Martha Brotherton
- Martha Brotherton and the Five Ironies
- Brigham Young sealed Martha Brotherton to himself with proxy
- Definitions of terms related to LDS Leaders' Polygamy Denials
- Links to Hales's footnoted denials
- 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?
- Helen Mar Kimball Whitney 1882 Woman's Exponent
- 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
- Scriptural instructions for practicing polygamy
- Polygamy for raising up seed?
- Resources on 1800s marriage practices
- 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
- 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
- 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 Dominant Narrative and Apologetic Fallback
- 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
- 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
- You can leave the Church but you can't leave it alone
- LDS Retentive Socialization