CES Reply: Book of Mormon archaeology

Thisis an excerpt from "A Reply from a Former CES Employee." The entire document can be downloaded for free.This is a line-by-line response to Jeremy Runnells' "Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Testimony." Jeremy's words are in green, the color of life, while mine are in black, the color of darkness. ... Read more

CES Reply: DNA and Book of Mormon anachronisms

Thisis an excerpt from "A Reply from a Former CES Employee." The entire document can be downloaded for free.This is a line-by-line response to Jeremy Runnells' "Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Testimony." Jeremy's words are in green, the color of life, while mine are in black, the color of darkness.Let’s ... Read more

CES Reply: Reactions

I offer this post as an interlude to my serialized reply to the CES Letter to recount some of the reactions I've gotten since publishing the whole thing last Friday. In retrospect, it might not have been wise to post the thing on April Fool's Day, which, as a series of Facebook memes has reminded ... Read more

CES Reply: The Joseph Smith Translation

Thisis an excerpt from "A Reply from a Former CES Employee." The entire document can be downloaded for free. This is a line-by-line response to Jeremy Runnells' "Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Testimony." Jeremy's words are in green, the color of life, while mine are in black, the color of darkness._______I’ll ... Read more

CES Reply: The Translation Process

Thisis an excerpt from "A Reply from a Former CES Employee." The entire document can be downloaded for free.This is a line-by-line response to Jeremy Runnells’ “Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Testimony. Jeremy’s words are in green, the color of life, while mine are in black, the color of darkness. ... Read more
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CES Reply: The Book of Mormon and the King James Bible

Thisis an excerpt from "A Reply from a Former CES Employee." The entire document can be downloaded for free.
This is a line-by-line response to Jeremy Runnells' "Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Testimony." Jeremy's words are in green, the color of life, while mine are in black, the color of darkness. ... Read more

CES Reply: Introduction

Thisis an excerpt from "A Reply from a Former CES Employee." The entire document can be downloaded for free.
This is a line-by-line response to Jeremy Runnells' "Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Testimony. Jeremy's words are in green, the color of life, while mine are in black, the color of darkness. ... Read more

CES Reply: Foreword

Thisis an excerpt from "A Reply from a Former CES Employee." The entire document can be downloaded for free. As a freshman at the University of Southern California, I was first exposed to what is commonly referred to as “anti-Mormon literature.” I read “The Godmakers” from cover to cover, which described a church with a ... Read more

Guest Post: Were the Lamanites Werewolves?

Today's post comes from Siegfried Goodfellow and is reposted with permission. It's bizarre, wonderful, and kind of brilliant. __________________ Werewolves, Lamanites, and Grendel : Oh My! an investigation into possible crosscurrents between Germanic mythology and Mormon folkloreGermanic mythology provides a comparative perspective from which to take a fresh look at what the Book of ... Read more
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