Category: Secrecy

History / Joseph Smith / Secrecy / Temple

December 12, 2018

Joseph Smith as Peeping Tom

by “Faraday” This essay hopes to solve a great mystery: the origins of the naked part of the endowment. The mystery Most people know that the signs and tokens of the temple come from...

A MESSAGE TO ALL HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE AND A LETTER TO MY MOTHER

Abuse / Christians / crime / Death / discrimination / Empathy / Family / Hate / Health / Homosexuality / Mormon Doctrine / Mormon Matters / Motherhood / Parenting / Secrecy / Sisters / Tolerance / Violence / Youth

January 2, 2013

A MESSAGE TO ALL HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE AND A LETTER TO MY MOTHER

A MESSAGE TO ALL HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE Another 17 year old boy named Jack Denton Reese committed suicide on April 22 in Mountain Green, Utah after being bullied for being feminine and/or gay, the day...

And I'm a Mormon / Appearances / Book of Abraham / Film / Media / Politics / Prophets / Public Relations / Romney / Secrecy / Video / YouTube

March 28, 2012

BBC’s This World: The Mormon Candidate

Finally, a Mormon documentary for the rest of us. Hailed by the creator of the I am an Ex Mormon video series as “my favorite video about Mormonism I have ever seen.” Part 1:...

#LDSconf pre-show discussion: Should the LDS church reveal its finances?

Finances / Secrecy

March 31, 2011

#LDSconf pre-show discussion: Should the LDS church reveal its finances?

As Provo, Utah’s Daily Herald noted back in 2007: It clearly doesn’t want to. In the 2001 case, for example, it avoided disclosure by settling with the plaintiff for $3 million. … Some find...