Hugh Nibley is a famous mormon scholar. He wrote many books on complex mormon doctrine and taught for many years at BYU. In some of his classes and some of his books he famously gave his students a faux writing challenge where they were to write the equivalent of the book of mormon. He was …
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Valerie Was a Mormon, an Exmormon Profile Spotlight
From full devotion and good mormon stock, Valerie had items on her shelf from an early age. As time went on, the concerns on her shelf accumulated until she couldn’t ignore them all. Her shelf broke through the years of research trying to make it all work. You can’t ignore things once you know them, …
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Jeremy Was a Mormon, an Exmormon Profile Spotlight
Through research, Jeremy finds multiple instances of the church changing doctrine over time as well as some of these changes being led by the law rather than by revelation and prophetic leadership. The story of the first vision certainly evolved into what it is today, it wasn’t even a footnote of church history until 20 …
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Yesterday’s Anti-Mormon “Lies” Are Today’s Church Essays
What are the Church Essays? The church has quietly published some essays discussing some hard-to-reconcile issues. There are multiple topics of these essays, such as: Multiple First Vision Accounts, Rock in a Hat Translation & Mormon Institutionalized Racism, a collection of essays about Polygamy referred to as Plural Marriage & even Heavenly Mother. Haven’t heard …
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Ken Was a Mormon, an Exmormon Profile Spotlight
Ken served faithfully in the mormon church for 30 years. He concluded that many so-called facts about church history, church doctrine and church operation were not true. Thus the church was not true. He lambasts the church and its leaders while also calling for an uprising of the disillusioned and the disaffected. He calls for …
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Keri Was a Mormon, an Exmormon Profile Spotlight
Keri has found a much healthier relationship with herself and a better relationship with Jesus by leaving the mormon church. She is not mormon, yet she is happy! I am living my life as a free, educated, single but happy woman who has found a true relationship with my Savior. I am no longer a …
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Church as transparent as it knows how to be
Is the Mormon church transparent? Is the church honest with its own history? What does it mean to be as transparent as you know how to be? Not much actually, but it’s their best excuse and retort when questioned. M Russell Ballard and Dallin H Oaks had a fireside broadcast with Young Single Adults. They …
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John Was a Mormon, an Exmormon Profile Spotlight
John found the repeated lack of integrity in how the church uses an ellipsis troubling. Adding to his already shelved issues there wasn’t much that could help in the gospel topic essays. It doesn’t take anti-mormon literature to decipher the mormon illusion, many brave souls arrive via official church material. Even quotes from favorite church …
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Becca Was a Mormon, an Exmormon Profile Spotlight
Becca says after finding the gospel topics essays, her testimony hit an iceberg and sank like the titanic. That’s another way of saying her shelf broke or she deconstructed her faith. I enjoy crafting, cosplaying, and exploring. My favorite place to be is the beach. I am a domestic violence survivor. I was a Mormon. …
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Reject Mormonism by Drinking Coffee
Drinking coffee is like saying I reject the church. That is a thought I have daily as I drink my morning coffee. It’s cathartic, therapeutic, and energizing. Drinking coffee is an open act of rebellion. Mormons are not permitted to drink coffee. It is against the word of wisdom. The word of wisdom forbids drinking …
Bruce Was a Mormon, an Exmormon Profile Spotlight
Bruce recollects his testimony was shattered by enhancing his knowledge of church history. He works to reconcile his wife and local leaders as well as an area authority but finds no satisfactory answers. Years later, he is reprimanded for a facebook post calling Joseph Smith a fraud as his local leaders pressure him to recant. …
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Joshua Was a Mormon, an Exmormon Profile Spotlight
Joshua found that the mormon church didn’t actually behave very Christ-like. He suffered months of cognitive dissonance trying to reconcile correlated church history and factual church history. Finally had enough and to resolve the dissonance, had to conclude the church was not the place for him. I’m a family man, a nerd, a technology evangelist, …
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Brandon Was a Mormon, an Exmormon Profile Spotlight
Brandon saw the lack of social justice in the church as inexcusable. When the November policy of exclusion was leaked, he had to stand with his conscience and leave. He even hopes he would have done the same for his black brothers and sisters before the priesthood ban was lifted. “I served a mission and …
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