by Dan Wees | Aug 2, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“All fingers seem to point to Elder Boyd Packer, acting president of the twelve apostles, as the prime force behind what has been called the Mormon Inquisition. While Elder Packer, nicknamed ‘Darth Packer’ by the irreverent because of his cold and detached...
by Dan Wees | Aug 2, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when LDS church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and...
by Dan Wees | Aug 2, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Three apostles gave orders for my stake president to confiscate my temple recommend. Six years earlier, I had formally notified the First Presidency and the Managing Director of the Church Historical Department about my research on post-Manifesto polygamy and my...
by Dan Wees | Aug 2, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Mormon historians are told to write church history as elementarily as possible and as defensively as possible. This is accommodation history for the weakest of the weak Latter-day Saints, for the vilest of the vile anti-Mormons, and for the most impressionable of the...
by Dan Wees | Aug 2, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“No church can stand a very close scrutiny of its origins and history without a good deal of moral and intellectual cringing.” Sterling McMurrin/Mormon Writer, Blake Ostler, Seventh East Press (7EP) “Interview: Sterling M. McMurrin” (Salt Lake City, UT: Seventh East...
by Dan Wees | Jul 31, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Many things have been intentionally ignored and sometimes concealed or have been taken to have religious meanings or implications which, in my opinion, have no religious connections whatsoever. I believe that the Church has intentionally distorted its own history by...
