So recently another friend and I arranged a “content exchange” — we both give each other something to read and after reading it I provide some commentary about what I read. In this case my friend gave me three distinct…
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The Grand Airport Allegory Imagine that you were born in, and grew up in, the international arrivals terminal of the Sydney airport. All of your life, you were abundantly exposed to the stories of people arriving from all over the…
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So, I’ve been on Easter holiday with my family and had some time. I posted on Facebook looking for book recommendations and one of my good friends who is a Muslim recommended me to read Hamza Andreas Tzortzis’s The Divine Reality: God,…
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“可恨之人必有可怜之处” — Chinese proverb; “Those that could be hated must have parts that could be pitied” (Note: this article is written primarily for an ex-Mormon audience. I’d recommend believing LDS members not read this, though they probably don’t read anything…
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Welcome to the Mormon Spiritual Experiences Podcast! In this fourth episode, I talk about how the kinds of religious experiences we’re capable of having depend on what we believe we’re capable of experiencing. In other words, how the belief in…
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Here is an exhaustive list of all essays published on the lds.org website as of 30-01-2017: Are Mormons Christian? (To address the common question of whether Mormons count as Christians) Becoming Like God (To address the common question of the doctrine of…
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“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A…
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After researching religions and Mormonism for many, many hours, and with what I think is a relatively good understanding of contemporary Mormonism, here are some of my predictions for what may happen with the LDS church over the next 100…
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“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who…
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I occasionally find myself in conversation with religious people (not necessarily Mormons) in various settings; on the train, having lunch with a colleague, or somewhere online. Quite often, in a sincere effort to quickly understand my position, they’ll ask me:…
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