The Christian Century (May 5, 2009) lists the top five academic bestselling books from leading book publishing companies (pp. 14-15).  Mormons have authored the top two bestselling books for Oxford University Press: (more…)

I have read through the first chapter of Blake’s book, Exploring Mormon Thought: Of God and Gods (2008).

I will pick it up again and start reading.

Later all.  It has been a fine spring.

God is all-powerful.  God is all-knowing.  God is all-loving.

He is so good.

Ok, so I bump into Kerry at the convenience store on the east corner of 1st Street where our church building sits. 

The guy is a podcasting machine . . . over 700 videos . . . unbelievable.  I am telling you all — Kerry is making his mark in backyard LDS apologetics history.

So I connect to his blog tonight.  Lo and behold, he is talking about one of the verses that our church family just memorized several weeks ago.

What a great Bible verse!

We covered Jeremiah 23 tonight in our church Bible study.

There is hardly any prosecution against false prophets and their false prophecies in America, today.

And for the ones that do . . . oh my, they are going to end up as popular as the ancient prophet, Jeremiah.

The holy words of God make Jeremiah stagger like a drunken man.

John 14:28

My Father is greater than I.

This phrase has provoked a very deep, ongoing discussion in the Wood household.  My oldest son, Joshua (13 years old),  initiated the conversation Sunday night after listening to my Bible message in the morning.  And it has continued each day since.

I strongly disagree with Unitarians, Jehovah Witnesses, and Mormon friends, etc. on the interpretration of this declaration by the Lord Jesus Christ.  

But let me ask this:  is there more than one LDS interpretation of this statement?

And one other question on the verse – what do you think is the big deal over Jesus’ words, “I go unto the Father”?

The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act – H.R. 980 that will be introduced on May 5, 2009

I don’t like it.  As vice president of the Red Cliff Bible Camp board in Wyoming, I express resistance . . . the extra fees and permits enforced upon us to take campers into the wilderness.  It just seems to be another message from the government that they don’t trust Idahoans (and those in the other states) to take care of our public lands.

Would this bill affect the current camping operations of the Grand Teton Council in future days?

I was so naive in years past.

Pick up Revisiting Thomas F. O’Dea’s The Mormons Contemporary Perspectives (2008).

Read White’s article, “Thomas F. O’Dea and Mormon Intellectual Life:  A Reassessment Fifty Years Later.”

At one time, White had me fooled about “a [neo-Mormon] shift toward a Calvinist version by grace alone.”

Perhaps that is the greater concern for Mr. O. Kendall White in pausing for heart reflection and meditation.  The Calvinistic Gospel of faith alone by grace alone in Christ alone.

Hasn’t Mr. White in his life moved from Church Mormonism to a Cultural Mormonism exhibiting agnosticism and skepticism?  I don’t know.  Can someone tell me?

I don’t remember anything.

It has been taught by LDS Authorities since my birth in S.E. Idaho back in 1969 that I did preexist with God.  But I can’t remember. (more…)

I grew up in a family where we pretended to be a Christian family, that is, we had a home church that we attended when it was convenient but didn’t really practice any Bible reading or prayer.  At about the age of 25, I decided that religion was a crutch needed by people who couldn’t make it in life by themselves and I rejected the existence of God.  (more…)