by Thinker of Thoughts | Jan 24, 2018 | Mormonism
Earlier today, an American podcaster updated an ancient parable previously used to subvert the notion of truth and reason. The first verse of the poem speaks about: Six men of Indostan. To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were...
by Thinker of Thoughts | May 8, 2015 | Mormonism
Many sincere and loving men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints find troublesome facts online about the church founder Joseph Smith. Many of those facts have recently been validated by the Church’s own website. When families are broken...
by Thinker of Thoughts | Jul 12, 2014 | Mormonism
[toc]Faith crises are all the rage. Everybody’s talking about them. Okay, well not everybody. Mainly the people who have gone through them. Most other people are probably wishing that the people who keep bringing them up would just go away. They are like the...
by Thinker of Thoughts | Jan 24, 2014 | Mormonism
There is a helpful analogy that has been passed around among some faithful mormons helping them to reconcile some of the troubling issues in church history. It is not my analogy and I can’t take credit for it, but I think it does provide some thought provoking...
by Thinker of Thoughts | Nov 25, 2013 | Mormonism, Spirituality
[toc]I have struggled for some time to express my feelings and motivations about why I speak out about issues with Mormon Church History. This is as close as I can come for now: The Parable of the Counterfeit Coin Imagine that you were a prisoner serving a life...