http://www.mormontimes.com/article/20679/Ancient-gold-plates-in-Mesoamerica Nothing new here. Don’t forget the Padilla plates.
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Metal Plates in MesoAmerica
May 5, 2011Why It’s So Hard to See Nephites in MesoAmerican Archaeology
May 5, 2011http://www.mormontimes.com/article/20739/Hiding-from-archaeologists Orson Scott Card makes a great point in this article. Another potential reason… maybe the Nephites were in the land of the lower 48? I know, I know, there’s no narrow neck of land….. but, there’s a theory for everything.
Ancient American History Conference
March 31, 2011March 31 -April 1 I’m enjoying the presentations being given at the 2nd Annual Ancient American History Conference, Seeking the Origins of Native Americans. You can read my notes on the conference presentations here. I have long been aware of the two main schools of thought regarding Book of Mormon geography: The predominant Mesoamerican school [...]
1996 60 Minutes Interview of Gordon B. Hinckley
June 21, 2010Hard to believe this was 14 years ago! I dug up this link for another post. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/31/60minutes/main3775068.shtml
Lurching Toward the Cliff
May 7, 2010This post was inspired by this article in the Wall Street Journal and LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley’s discourse in October of 2006, called Rise Up O Men of God, in which he encourages young men in the church to get an education and learn to compete in a changing world. Right now the [...]
An Outsider’s Brushes with the Best and Worst of Utah
March 25, 2010I just read this blog post with great interest. While the author doesn’t formally name them, I assume he is referring to two different religious entities. The first is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS Church), whose missionaries he talks about. The second “entity,” for lack of a better word, is best [...]
The Faith of a Child
November 30, 2009This morning I was listening to a talk by Henry B. Eyring, First Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. My iPod was nearly dead when I turned it on and my car charger for it no longer works. It was a talk that was given last October [...]
Senator Harry Reid Criticizes His Church Leaders
October 13, 2009Well, Harry Reid now has both feet firmly planted on the long slippery path to apostacy. Either he really feels this way and thus has openly criticized the prophets, seers and revelators, authorized by Jesus Christ to administer His church subject to His mind and will, OR he has given in to blasphemous, hypocritical vote pandering. [...]
The Last Days (Part 6): “An All-Consuming Calamity”
October 13, 2009In a November 2001 talk entitled “The Times In Which We Live” President Gordon B. Hinckley of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, said something that really got my attention: “[Our present situation (war, economy, etc.)] pull[s] us up sharply to a realization that life is fragile, peace is fragile, civilization itself is fragile. [...]
Beware of Pride, it goes before the fall…..
September 15, 2009I’ve been involved in a painful but positive experience over the past few weeks. I’ve been humbled. It is easy to get cocky in life, to let pride creep in and turn us from humble piety to self-interest and negativism. We learn about pride in the Book of Mormon, where over a period of a millennium [...]
