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I am excited to follow your progress, Jack! I agree with you about the etiquette of those aspiring to be taken seriously. Condemning a major branch of Christianity as “Satanic” is not or should not be regarded as serious. Thanks Kish! Completely unrelated to the thread, but wanna hear something coo...

A "professional historian" would never publicly use the words "Satanic theology like Protestantism"---even if that person vehemently disliked Protestantism on a personal level. Historians need to be able to assess their subjects with some level of objectivity. To call one religion or another "Satani...

Ardis Parshall once attacked me in the comments section at Times & Seasons and suggested I had no business commenting on Mormonism as a non-member. This pretty much set off a dogpile of Mormons nodding their heads that a non-Mormon shouldn't comment on Mormonism (I doubt any of these people had even...

I'm surprised anyone would think priesthood is a strong point for Mormonism. The Mormon priesthood isn't taught in the New Testament or the early church, which makes little sense given how central it is to LDS Church organization, and it doesn't work to say "because wicked men removed plain and prec...

It's also a visual eyesore.

Nice. I haven't seen the movie yet but I will eventually. I didn't realize that praise and worship rock started at Calvary. One of your contributors also mentioned two Time magazine covers. Huh -- and some people didn't realize anything out of the ordinary was going on. After you do see it, be sure...

Legitimate academic Biblical scholarship. It's anathema to apologetics Maklelan is also having wild success in non-Mormon fields. I've talked to staff at TEDS who follow his TikToks but have zero interest in nor knowledge of Mormonism. To certain apologists who have never been relevant outside of t...

I assume that ATLA/EBSCO doesn't include Interpreter . (He's published a book review and a brief article in Interpreter .) It does not, and I did take a peek at Interpreter before I did my post, but decided not to mention it. I've got nothing against writing things for Interpreter , but there are p...

John Calvin is probably the most influential reformer behind Luther. Boylan is really going to have to step his game up if he wants to exceed the influence of Calvin. For sure. And he only lived to be 54 years old. Luther made it to 62. A critic once tried to mock Calvin for having no surviving chi...

The biggest impact of the Jesus Movement was on evangelical worship music. It pretty much changed evangelical worship music forever, from hymns to contemporary stuff with drums and guitars. Love Song was essentially the first contemporary Christian music act. There was no equivalent shift in Mormoni...