Gershom

@polysophical What edition is this?

Lectures on Faith

r/exmormon reacting to Easter celebrations:

Bro. Brigham making fun of the idea of conception by the holy ghost:

Apostle on Prophet Violence: Here is Bruce R. McConkie saying that Brigham Young "doesn't deserve to be saved"

@mormontheories Lol, your blog is the first one that came up when I was trying to find this quote. Amazing

@astrangerthere Yeah! Wilford is referring to a WILD vision Rigdon had in 1844 shortly after Joseph’s death. I did my best to reconstruct his fascinating vision here: sitatcit.home.blog/2025/08/04/184…

This is from Oliver Cowdery's diary. Entry date 23 January 1836. He mentions a vision of Sidney Rigdon's about the return of the Ten Tribes. 2 things: First: Where can I find an account of this vision? Second: Sidney Rigdon was more of a prophet than Mormonism wants to admit.

The fact that Mountain Meadows also happened on 9/11 doesn't bode well for that date.

Book Review: Conflict in the Quorum open.substack.com/pub/bronzson/p…

I reviewed a book about Orson Pratt check it out in the link below

I'm calling it right now: Pres. Oaks will get rid of the sealing rule that disallows a living woman to be sealed to two men.

Its a bit silly, but Dune Part 2 gave me this feeling of Messianic Awe that I hadn't ever really understood before. like, "oh this is how people felt listening to Jesus and Joseph". I'd intellectualized it, but hadn't really been aware of it emotionally.

His book "Same-Sex Dynamics" is a great example of this. He is a homosexual and should obviously be motivated to draw conclusions that accord with his lifestyle. He doesn't claim to find any evidence of the early church condoning any sort of same sex relationship

There is one Mormon historian/thinker that I trust above all others, and that is D. Michael Quinn. Even in area's where you would think he has an axe to grind, I've never seen him stretch the evidence.

Like three hours of D. Michael Quinn essentially bearing his testimony about church finances in 2017 is just truly great listening

The problem w/ mormon stories is that even though John Dehlin is kind of an annoying interviewer, he has on some really great guests.

@TheGermanicist John W. Taylor looked like an outlaw even before he was excommunicated

Mostly-bearded based Brethren of the Bridegroom.

Everything I don't like is Protestant -Terryl Givens

I made the mistake of showing my 10 year old some of the Joseph Smith Papers and now he absolutely refuses to learn how to spell.

I have been studying President Oaks' talks from the beginning of his apostolic service (slowly—I'm only up through 1989 now) and here are some things I've noticed: 1. He frequently will pick up a theme or idea from an earlier talk and expand on it in a later talk. 1/