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I thought he really wanted to the origins of "Mormon" and "Nephi" to fit in to a cohesive narrative and link it to Spalding and it did not work for me. The Spalding theory seems to be repackaged and brought out again every few years and can't get over some of the major flaws. I think it's much more ...

I've been meaning to read Method Infinite for a while and I'm about 3/4 through. Has anyone read it? I'm in front of a screen all day for I like to listen to books. I bought it on Kindle and then the Alexa app will read it to you. It's a little clumsy, but generally works well. Some things that ...

Yes! That's the site that really peaked my curiosity. The site founder is the guy who did the amazing Glass Looker graphic novels, he has some replicas available for sale complete with carrying pouch https://theglasslooker.com/product/magic-parchments/

The first time I read Quinn's Mormonism and the Magic Worldview, I was fascinated with the magical parchments in the book. There are crappy black and white photos of the parchments taken by a Smith family friend in the 70s (before the book came out and when everyone thought they were quirky Masonic ...

I just listened to an interview with Paul Toscano where he tells the story of Gary Fuchs in Bath, England who had missionaries tract into him and brought out golden plates, a sword of Laban and U&T. He claimed that his father was a German archeologist who had worked in South America and fled to ...

I am probably different from a lot of you in that I am probably close to many on the belief/non-belief side but feel like I have actually found a good niche in continuing to participate and embracing cafeteria Mormonism. I had to teach an EQ lesson on Nelson's talk about finding rest from the last ...

I listened to an interview with a Community of Christ historian and was surprised to realize that their church president/prophets have revelations that are voted on and canonized into their scripture. This is pretty wild when you realize that last canonized D&C section fro us was in 1921. From the ...

I'd never seen that photo of the dome, very cool.

Flex-if-Fabulous does have a great ring! I agree this is definitely Brigham era godhead, but seems to be what Joseph was experimenting with at the end of his life in Nauvoo and jives with the King Follett Discourse. I will have to talk to my friend again, but several years ago, a friend who worked ...

Love the word play and thanks for the props. I'll be interested to hear your reactions to the podcast.

Rick Bennett has a fascinating interview on the gospel tangents podcast with Joe Jessup who grew up in the United Apostolic Brethren (Allred Polygamous Group) and converted to the LDS Church. He gives the history of the various groups and gets into the doctrine. This won't be news to anyone on here ...

I really like those rules and the insights.

This has probably been covered a ton in the past, but I wanted to get some ideas from people on here about alcohol. I first started experimenting with drinking last year during the holiday season and it was love at first sip. I loved the taste, the feeling, everything about it. I am a regular coffee ...

I think the church is in a tough position on this one. On the cover of the most recent Liahona, it shows a bunch of photos of all races of people and says "The Lord is Gathering His Covenant People." This was a big turn off for my wife who does not like the exclusivity this promotes (elect covenant ...

Busche was German and from Germany, but moved to Bountiful and I don't think he ever left. He was in my friend's ward growing up, so that would put him in Utah, even after he retired.

For some reason,I've found this whole thing fascinating ever since Grant Palmer talked about this mysterious GA and looked at charts, etc. to try to figure out who it was. My research was pretty bad because Busche never came on my radar. I have a friend who was in a ward with the Busches growing up ...

Great, thanks for the link to the other thread.

Elder Bednar's recent talk on religious freedom and Covid-19 https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.or ... us-freedom.

Interesting discussion. I have heard that Brigham Young was the first leader to be buried in temple clothes and people kind of followed after that. I think it does tie back to masonry, masons are traditionally buried in their masonic aprons.

I may have lost all credibility for flirting with cigars, but after a lot of research on the WOW, I am convinced that JS incorporated accepted health science of the day into scripture and attributed it to God as a revelation, this included the idea that the temperature of drinks was bad for the body ...