Transcript from a portion of my most recent podcast episode on the First Vision: This idea of LDS exclusivity and the idea that we are, God’s only true church. Jana Reese in her book, The Next Mormons, a brilliant book. I highly recommend it. It shares a lot of insights into kind of what’s going […]

Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series, Episode 7: First Vision, Priesthood Restoration, LDS Exclusivity In this episode, I discuss aspects of the First Vision, Priesthood Restoration, LDS Exclusivity that could lead to faith crisis. There are four main accounts of the First Vision. Some LDS encounter faith crisis issues when discovering these multiple accounts or […]

Here’s a summary of my theory on Book of Mormon translation. This post is taken from transcript of this week’s podcast episode. It’s a little sloppy for a blog post, but here it is if you don’t have time to listen. Goal: Propose a process for Book of Mormon translation that: allows for inspiration from […]

    Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series, Episode 5: Book of Mormon Translation In this episode, I discuss the aspects of Joseph Smith’s interactions with the Angel Moroni, obtaining the gold plates, and Book of Mormon translation that could lead to faith crisis. There are some wild aspects of this history that are difficult […]

In my most recent podcast episode Book of Mormon content, which focuses on modern theological content in the Book of Mormon, I point out a couple instances where study of 19th century works help illuminate confusing passages in the Book of Mormon. The first one is from Daniel McClellan. Daniel wanted to understand how to […]

    In this episode, I discuss the aspects of the Book of Mormon that could lead to faith crisis. There are many aspects of the Book of Mormon that show ‘humanistic and modern fingerprints’. However, the Book of Mormon content also is fertile ground for us to identify powerful and inspiring aspects of the […]

The Church is True Faith Crisis and Reconstruction podcast series is here. The first three episodes were released this week. Here’s a link to the first episode: Mormon faith crisis podcast link At the beginning of the podcast, I give a strong warning to only proceed if you are already very aware of all the church […]

Episode 1: Intro   Welcome to Episode 1: Intro from the Church is True Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series. I am an active, faithful Latter-day Saint who went through faith crisis, deconstruction, and reconstruction over the time period 2004-2012, and now want to share the paradigm and intellectual framework I used to reconstruct into […]