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Here are my few thoughts after listening to RFM's Muhlstein podcast. 1. Muhlstein's dissing of the podcast medium is absurd. I could understand this posture if RFM had called him out to a soundbite duel over social media or Twitter, but not to a long-form debate over podcasting. Some very complex an...

Brother and Sister Hales, Did Joseph Smith's polygamy violate the Golden Rule? Yes or no? Did Joseph Smith's polygamy violate--and cause others to violate--the second great commandment? Did Joseph Smith violate the commandment not to covet his neighbor's wife (Ex. 20:17; and see Matt. 5:27-28) when ...

It seems to me that a complete discussion of this issue (racism embedded into Mormon doctrine) should reexamine the doctrine of preexistence where spirit beings with agency are first measured and sorted for earth life. If doctrine provides for "valiance" there, and thus "foreordinatio...

Wait a minute. How did Joseph know where in the plates to resume translating (at Mosiah) after a year’s hiatus... especially since the plates weren’t necessary or often present during the translation process? Did the rock have a spiritual sticky note or something?

An essential and great part of the joy of marriage, and it should be also of sexual union, derives from exclusivity. There is no reason to think that this will change in Heaven, other than perhaps to increase there BECAUSE of final, eternal exclusivity. It beggars my imagination to suppose wives in ...

About a year ago, after I finished reading House Full of Females , I was moved to promise my wife I would never be sealed to another woman. And I did it again in front of dinner friends, including my Stake President and his wife. His wife isn't a fan of polygamy, and I'm told reading about polygamy ...

I've been an LDS Lifer thus far... over 50, in a high council, married for 30 years. But only a couple of years' study, not even that deep, led me quickly to conclude that Joseph Smith's polygamy was nothing but horse hockey. I had read Rough Stone Rolling way back when and shelved the polyandry. Bu...