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It emerged that the church leader was a registered sex offender. A former leader of the Church of Latter-Day Saints has been convicted of multiple charges for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old congregation member. Michael Adam Davis, 37, was found guilty of two counts of 1st-degree and two counts o...

The Church still refuses to instigate background checks. I can think of two possible reasons for this: 1. The general CoJCoLDS principle that because the church is guided by living prophets, it is extremely dangerous to change any of its long-term practices as a result of criticism, since that migh...

Unknown to members of a southern Minnesota congregation until three years ago, one of its leaders was a lifetime registered sex offender from Utah, the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS). (FOX 9) - A former Mormon congregation leader who went from convicted sex of...

I wonder if there’s a log detailing what the 251 changes of meaning are?

I see. Let’s get back to the topic then. …You’ve got Church members being too trusting of others. In any other life setting a Mormon parent wouldn’t allow the kind of access to their children that they give to other church members. You’ve also got the institution not doing all that it could do, sim...

Id like to know what significant changes are in this version. It would probably be so few as to be able to fit into a Peterson blog entry. I don’t know, Skousen seems to have changed quite a bit: The Yale edition of the Book of Mormon takes advantage of all the important findings of the Critical Te...

I’m pleased to mention here that tomorrow, 10 May 2022, is the date for which Yale University Press has scheduled the release of the second edition of The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text. Edited by my longtime friend and colleague Royal Skousen, the new book will appear as a trade paperback. Afte...

Not sure if this has been brought up in this thread, but here's an example of the Church really screwing up. This guy was convicted of molestation in Utah, moved to Minnesota, and was called as Elder's Quorum President. He struck up a friendship with a 13yo in the ward and molested him. https://www...

April 2018 https://discussmormonism.com/posting.php?mode=post&f=4 May 2022 - So how is it progressing? Why wasn’t President Nelson inspired to delay the announcement until after the war with Ukraine? IHAQ, I guess I have a touch of curiosity. Why would you expect President Nelson to get this partic...

Nelson has chosen to spend eternity in a throuple (cohabiting with two wives). Of the women in question, it is likely only the second wife, Wendy that has consented to this arrangement. Dantzel didn’t get a choice in the matter. So what will life with two wives look like? Perhaps this is an insight:...