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It seems early Mormonism did not blend well in the United States at the time. There was a desire--a recurrent theme--to get out of at least the areas organized as states, into areas such as west of the state of Missouri (an area unorganized from 1821-1855), possibly into the Republic of Texas, or in...

It was still legal then, right? The article is a bit unclear on the timeline. MDMA became illegal on July 1, 1985. The Mormon doctoral student was interviewed in 2003, according to the Guardian article. Julie Nuwer who wrote the book about MDMA that is referred to in the Guardian article is quoted ...

It wasn’t all club kids using [MDMA--aka Molly and ecstasy]. Nuwer’s book charts a few unlikely subcultures that used MDMA, starting with the Mormons. Even though the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prohibits its members from drinking alcohol, a Mormon doctoral student told the drug act...

If they really wanted "to communicate that we do not feel that we're obligated to fill in that box" then they should have left it blank. "It wasn't meant to be an accurate answer" - in my opinion, putting any non-blank in that box is not just not an accurate number, but is a lie. In the matter of l...

Or, to riff on a phrase coined by Peterson's late comrade, Joseph Smith is butthead. If, dear reader, you prefer, it could simply be Peterson is butthead.

More and more, mopologists are running for and taking cover in what is referred to as the catalyst theory. With the Book of Mormon, the gold plates weren't used for translation, but just there while the production in English were the magical appearance of words above a stone in a hat. The Book of Ab...

Roach concludes... Why do we see such lower rates of Latter-day Saint abuse? There are many potential reasons for this, which I’ve reviewed here in a separate piece. But I have one main theory: It’s the system of callings in the Church of Jesus Christ. In other organizations, if you want access to ...

A few things to note about this: Firstly, these changes in procedure have not been instigated at the behest of the Church, the FP or the Q12. "After careful consideration the Area Presidency approved an update to safeguarding policies and procedures for use in the United Kingdom..." It reads as if ...

As I said above, go with Watson. Ignore the confusion that was generated by Hamblin and DCP. I don’t know what to make of everything they said about communication with Watson, but Watson is very clear. Also, when he wrote the one and only Watson letter, Watson was acting in an official church capac...

In the 1980s, the FARMS bunch fall in line behind John Sorenson's LGT, requiring there be two Cumorahs--one in New York and the other in MesoAmerica. In the late 1980s, Ludlow's Encyclopedia of Mormonism includes an entry that gives room to the Book of Mormon Hill Cumorah being outside of New York,...