Recently a dear friend asked me a question that I had never heard or considered before.  As nearly as I remember, she worded it something like this, In the Lord’s Prayer in Bible, it says ‘lead us not into temptation’. This line is the same […]

For many years I’ve wished that I knew a devoted black Mormon well enough to comfortably ask the question, “How do you reconcile your testimony with the racist things found in The Book of Mormon?”  I love this book, but every time I read about […]

I consider myself to be relatively well read.  My major was English teaching, I spent many years as a member of a book group, and I’m a list reader (I keep lists of classic or recommended books and mark them off as I read them).  […]

I must admit that until recently I had not heard the term Book of Mormon historicity or questioned the idea that The Book of Mormon was an actual history of ancient American people, written on gold plates, and translated by Joseph Smith through the power […]

Joseph Smith simply said that The Book of Mormon was translated, “by the gift and power of God” and for the first fifty or so years of my life that was good enough for me.  I didn’t give much thought to the process and was […]

Until this past year, I don’t think I’d ever heard of Occam’s Razor.  I feel like I should have known what it was, but I didn’t.  So, for anyone else who isn’t familiar with it, let me begin with some background. William of Occam (or […]

I’ve been reading the Book of Mormon, at least sporadically, for the past fifty years or so.  I wish I could say, that I’ve been diligently studying it, but I’m trying to keep it honest.  In all those years I have never given any real […]

I assume that if you are reading this you already have an opinion on the Book of Mormon. Either you feel that it is the life-changing word of God or a complete and total fabrication. Let me give a brief introduction, however, in case anyone […]