Category: Scholarship
The Increasingly Strange Text of the Book of Mormon
Stanford Carmack’s series of four articles at the Mormon Interpreter provide a large body of detailed data pointing to something strange, increasingly strange, in the Book of Mormon: the grammatical…
New Podcast with Stanford Carmack on Textual Analysis of the Book of Mormon
Over on the FAIRMormon blog, you can listen to “Syntax and Book of Mormon Authorship – Interview with Stanford Carmack.” This new podcast lets Stanford share more about the strong…
Ezra Taft Benson and Teachings of the Presidents for 2015: Some Things You Won’t Be Learning This Year
I’m glad to see that the LDS manual for Teachings of the Presidents in 2015 will cover Ezra Taft Benson, the man who was President of the Church from 1985…
More to LDS Garments Than Meets the Eye
A few days ago I discussed the new video from the Church discussing basics of the LDS garment. Today I’d like to mention some interesting connections it has to ancient…
No Evidence at All?
One critic posting on my comments pages recently explained why he didn’t believe in Jesus. The argument he offered looked logically constructed and was presented with a “slam dunk” air….
LDS.org Offers “Gospel Topics” Section on the Historicity and Translation of the Book of Abraham
Among the growing body of helpful and carefully researched topics discussed in the “Gospel Topics” section of the LDS.org website, the Church has recently provided a statement that addresses some…
Lawyers, Inc. vs. Faith
My sophomore English class at Brighton High School was a disaster. The school was using a failed but trendy new system where hundreds of kids were in a big open…
Coping with the “Big List” of Attacks on the LDS Faith
One of the challenges in defending one’s faith is coping with critics who use the “Big List” technique in their attack. This involves throwing out numerous arguments to create the…
Temple Blindness
Note: Future updates to this information will be made in the “Temple Blindness” page of my website at http://www.jefflindsay.com/lds/temple-blindness/. I am pained to see Latter-day Saints get carried away in…
Thumbs Up to Mormon’s Codex (But Buy the Physical Book, Not Deseret’s Flawed Ebook)
I’m nearing the end of John Sorenson’s monumental tome, Mormon’s Codex: An Ancient American Book, and highly recommend it. There is a lifetime of serious research from a good scholar…
