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Regarding Father Lehi's supposed journey down along the west coast of Arabia, I found this recently published reference rather interesting: "The difficulties of making [Lehi's...] trip is further illustrated by the Roman campaign along virtually the same route, a few decades [before the Christi...

... we are told that Nephi could have built a much larger seagoing ship with the softwood Sycamore fig or perhaps the Boscia or Tamarind trees available in coastal Oman. Lindsay tells us that the Arabs built traditional dhows, so the people in the region were experienced shipbuilders. Of course, he...

.... I would not go out of my way to show my son the mentioned book, but at the same time I would not go out of my way to keep him from reading it, if he should happen to find it on his own. My relationship with my son is such that if he found this book and it concerned him, he would come and talk ...

...What a fascinating story! A friend of Joseph Smith, a Strangite leader (before being excommunicated for embezzlement, adultery, apostasy, and drunkenness.) and mentioned by Twain. ... Something more than "a friend," I'd say. Adams palled around in the East with Joseph's younger brother...

... Now what? Infiltrate the conservative institutes, think tanks, universities, levels of government? ... Better plan -- infiltrate Sheldon Gary Adelson's associates and supporters, in order to become the most powerful financial foundation of a certain U. S. political party, constantly in need of ...

Jovial looking fellow... I am not alone in my detecting an overlap between Elder G. J. Adams and Rev. Jim Jones. In his 2010 "To See A Promised Land," Lester I. Vogel wrote: "[Mark twain] aptly branded the [Adams colony in Jaffa] 'one of the strangest chapters in American history,' t...

... Go ahead and state things that way, if it is your true and final conclusion. But the phenomenon of cults is fairly well documented in the professional sociological literature. If you take the trouble to read through any of that, you'll soon find that acknowledged authorities on the subject have...

I feel the FLDS gives us a glimpse of what the Brighamite church might have become if the federal government had not stepped in. Perhaps -- to a certain extent. But they are fundamentally different, in that they attempt very little missionary work. The vast majority of the FLDS members are BIC and ...

I think this is a better term to use. Thanks. Of course, among the early Mormons, the term was a derogatory one. The Latter Day Saints were the "True Church" and the "sectarians" were the false, almost devilish imitation. The only thing worse than a "sect" (back in the...

What happens if a faithful Mormon openly doesn't support the Prophet and some Apostles? - Doc I once posed this question to the Historian of the LDS Church: Suppose, that on Nov. 11, 1943, an LDS member publicly refused to sustain Apostle Richard R. Lyman in his calling and office. What then? "...