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Xiamen, China – Some Photos
Below are some of the photos from my recent collection of photos from Xiamen, China, one of my latest photo galleries at JeffLindsay.com. These came from a trip to Xiamen….
Does Grant Palmer Really Claim to Have Rescued a Mormon General Authority Away from the LDS Faith?
There’s a remarkable story circulating the Net in which a prominent LDS General Authority allegedly lost his faith due to the teachings of Grant Palmer, the controversial ex-Mormon author who…
A Fellowship of Doubters
Terryl L. Givens’ “Letter to a Doubter” at the Mormon Interpreter is definitely worth a read, especially if you are struggling with the very normal and frequently healthy process of…
Thomas Nagel’s Apostasy: Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Some elite circles in the academic world are aflame with anger at the apostasy of one of their former darlings, a man who may be the most famous philosopher in…
Not Just Imagined: Media Hostility Toward Religion
Hopefully you are all catching some sessions of General Conference this weekend. Here in Shanghai, our congregations (now 3 great branches for foreign passport holders) will watch it as a…
Farewell to My New Farmer Friends, For Now
As I report in the April 1 update on my story of a boy needing help with surgery on my blog at JeffLindsay.com, my new friends from Jiangxi Province in…
Plan B for the Farmer’s Son
I will keep updates on the story of the farmer boy from rural China on my story of Zhiwei on my blog at Jeff Lindsay.com. But here’s the latest. As…
My Failed Mission: Painful News from the Hospital
I’m in shock after my visit to Xinhua Hospital tonight. Disaster. Heart break. As I explained earlier in my posts on the case of the poor Chinese family who came…
Can a Secular Relief Society Work?
For those of you following the story of the young teenage boy, Zhiwei, who has come to Shanghai from a distant province to get long-overdue surgery for a deformed leg…
Raising Funds for Surgery for an Impoverished Teenage Boy in China
A young 13-year-old boy named Zhiwei (sounds like “Jurway”) is about to begin surgery today. I met him and his father on the streets of Shanghai and became friends a…
