Stallion Cornell

Continuing my reply to Jeremy Runnell’s “Letter to a CES Director,” with Jeremy’s original words in green:Priesthood Restoration Concerns & Questions:“The late appearance of these accounts raises the possibility of later fabrication.”LDS Historian Richard Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling, p. 75 –Are you saying that Richard Bushman believes that these accounts were fabricated? ... Read more

Continuing my reply to Jeremy Runnell’s “Letter to a CES Director,” with Jeremy’s original words in green:

6. Paul H. Dunn:  Dunn was a General Authority of the Church for many years. Indeed! I adored Paul H. Dunn. Still do. Marvelous speaker – funny, engaging, and perceptive.He was a very popular speaker who ... Read more

I apologize for the pause in posting here - lots going on at the moment. Picking up where I left off with my reply to Jeremy Runnell’s “Letter to a CES Director,” with Jeremy’s original words in green:Testimony/Spiritual Witness Concerns & Questions:Every major religion has members who claim the same thing: God or ... Read more

Continuing my reply to Jeremy Runnell’s “Letter to a CES Director,” with Jeremy’s original words in green:Kinderhook Plates and Translator/Seer Claims Concerns & Questions:

Kinderhook Plates:

Awesome! Who doesn’t like Kinderhook Plates?What’s with all the MormonInfographics cribbing? Do you owe those guys money?The quote from the History of the Church is actually a ... Read more

IfI'm enjoying anything about Donald Trump's conquest and pillaging of what's left of the Republican Party, it's watching Glenn Beck be humiliated and, of course, seeing Ted Cruz implode. Tonight, I'm drunk on anti-Cruz schadenfreude. I'm really dreading the inevitable Trump hangover tomorrow morning.Although, really, it probably won't be all that bad. After all, I went ... Read more

Continuing my reply to Jeremy Runnell’s “Letter to a CES Director,” with Jeremy’s original words in green:If Brigham Young was really a Prophet, Seer, and Revelator, would it not be unreasonable to expect that God would give him a hint that racism is not okay, sexism is not okay, blood atonement is not okay ... Read more

Continuing my reply to Jeremy Runnell’s “Letter to a CES Director,” with Jeremy’s original words in green:Mark Hofmann:Cool! Dig the groovy haircut on the murderer guy!In the early to mid-1980s, the Church shelled out close to $900,000 in antiquities and cash to Mark Hofmann – a conman and soon-to-be serial killer – ... Read more

Continuing my reply to Jeremy Runnell’s “Letter to a CES Director,” with Jeremy’s original words in green:Blacks Ban:  As you know, for close to 130 years blacks were not only banned from holding the priesthood but black individuals and families were blocked from the saving ordinances of the Temple.  Every single prophet from Brigham ... Read more

Continuingmy reply to Jeremy Runnell’s “Letter to a CES Director,” with Jeremy’s original words in green:Prophets Concerns & Questions:1. Adam-God:  President Brigham Young taught what is now known as "Adam-God theory.” He taught that Adam is "our Father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do.”  Young not ... Read more

Ihave never met Jeremy Runnells, although we have far more mutual friends than I realized when I first started writing my reply to his letter. Let me also say again that I have no interest in attacking Mr. Runnells personally, and that I wish him well in wherever his faith journey takes him.As I continue ... Read more