After Family Home Evening last night (we do it on Fridays) and putting our daughter in bed, my husband and I snuggled up to watch Richard Dutcher’s States of Grace aka “God’s Army 2.” I initially saw it last November when I was visiting my LDS in-laws at their home in Iowa, but my husband [...]

So I’m planning on flying to Chicago and attending the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School open house on March 22-23. I called my father today to discuss these plans and he was upset to hear that I still consider moving to Chicago in the fall a possibility. “Why can’t you find something closer?” he angrily told [...]

Tuesday, January 29, 2002
I talked to a girl in my martial arts class named [Rita]1 today. She’s not LDS, she’s Catholic, and she’s taking the missionary discussions right now and she has questions for me about why I didn’t join the church. I’m amazed and thankful that God’s put her in my life.
It was during [...]

Doesn’t that sound deliciously scandalous? In just about every religion except Mormonism, a “priest” is a person of some authority among the clergy, so when they’re accused of wrongdoing it’s big news. Those who know little about Mormons probably think that a headline such as “Woman’s suit alleges abuse by Mormon priest” (Web Cite) means [...]

It happened more times than I care to remember. I would see an LDS friend or teacher or co-worker on campus, we would say hello and make small talk, and then he or she would say with a grin, “So Jack, when are you getting baptized?” This cavalierly dismissive attitude towards my own faith was [...]

My church usually meets from 4 PM – 5:30 PM on Sundays, but once a month we do a special second meeting from 10 AM – 11:30 AM for prayer, worship and the Lord’s Supper. I went to the morning meeting by myself and was really surprised when we were praying and somebody started speaking [...]

Gentile Girl: Living with the Latter-day Saints by Carol Avery Forseth
[January 2002; reviewed 02-21-2009]
(Note: We will probably be posting this one at Tekton. I’ll remove the main text of the review and link to it accordingly when we do.)
There is no question that any person who attends Brigham Young University as a non-Mormon receives an [...]

I was reading old journal entries for material for my BYU series and I came across this, written on Sunday, December 30, 2001, while I was attending the Campus Crusade for Christ Conference in Spokane, Washington as a sophomore from BYU:
I remember once hearing a woman teaching [LDS] institute, and she talked about how Mormonism [...]

My quest to understand what sort of evangelical I really am has had me doing more than just pondering things like traducianism and preterism. Lately I’ve begun to question how we as evangelicals ought to approach God for our Sunday worship in dress and attire, and before you can understand my dilemma on the subject, [...]

All entering freshmen at BYU are required to complete 14 hours of religion classes, consisting of:
2 Book of Mormon classes (4 credit hours, covering the entire BoM)
1 Doctrine & Covenants class (2 credit hours, either first half or second half)
1 New Testament class (2 credit hours, either first half or second half)
6 credit hours worth [...]