MormonThink.com http://www.mormonthink.com Controlversial and critical information about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - the Mormons. en-us MormonThink.com http://www.mormonthink.com/img/logo-rss.jpg http://www.mormonthink.com 80 80 LDS Egyptologist John Gee downplaying Book of Abraham as scripture http://www.mormonthink.com/boaweb.htm#latest LDS Egyptologist backpeddling on the Book of Abraham? Book of Mormon Studies http://www.mormonthink.com/mormonstudies.htm complete resposting of the former mormonstudies.com website by Ted Chandler New and Updated Information http://www.mormonthink.com/ The home page now lists new and significantly updated information New Youtube Video on the Book of Mormon Translation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpukBl8OgsY Very accurate Youtube video made by some friends of MormonThink on the Book of Mormon translation. New Section: Zelph http://www.mormonthink.com/zelph.htm The importance of Zelph in proving/disproving the Book of Mormon New Section: Joseph Smith's Translation of The Holy Bible http://www.mormonthink.com/jst.htm A critical examination of the JST New book by Lyndon Lamborn http://www.authorhouse.com/bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=58587 Book authored by Lyndon: "Standing for Something More". http://www.mormonthink.com/lyndonlamborn.htm About the author and a review of his book. Article on the owner of MormonThink.com http://www.mormonthink.com/files/sunstone.pdf Anonymous Confessions of an LDS Webmaster - D. Jeff Burton shares excerpts from his exchanges with the founder of the website MormonThink.com, which attempts to present in a fair and balanced both sides of difficult LDS historical issues. Making Mormon History http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2007/12/09/making_mormon_history/ An influential religion struggles with how to tell the story of its past: An article by Mark Oppenheimer of the Boston Globe. Since its founding in 1830 by Joseph Smith, a young self-proclaimed prophet from upstate New York, the Mormon church has become one of the most influential religious groups in the United States. Officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), it claims nearly 7 million adherents nationwide, and even the lowest outside estimates - about 3 million American Mormons - suggest there are now more Mormons in the US than there are Congregationalists. Bushman's Introduction to "Joseph Smith and His Critics" Seminar http://www.lifeongoldplates.com/2008/08/bushmans-introduction-to-joseph-smith.html Richard Bushman's introduction to the 2008 summer seminar, "Joseph Smith and His Critics," given July 29, 2008.