I responded to the first part of the Joseph Smith Foundation’s “Debunking Rough Stone Rolling’s Treasure Digging Sources with REAL Data” here, and they have released a second video, which also merits a response. My criteria for critiquing this second part of the vidcast (unsurprisingly) remains the same. Stoddard makes…

The Joseph Smith Foundation has recently released vidcasts in a series titled “Debunking Rough Stone Rolling’s Treasure Digging Sources with REAL Data.” Hannah Stoddard claims “Richard Bushman advocate a new progressive interpretation of Joseph Smith, depicting him as being involved in ritual magic and using peep stones to find treasure…

Social justice has become a politically fraught and loaded term, but what exactly is meant by social justice? The United Nations defines social justice as “social justice may be broadly understood as the fair and compassionate distribution of the fruits of economic growth”[1] while the National Association of Social Workers…

On December 17, 2017, I had a deep realization that I did not like the person I had become. This day marked the end of my first semester at Brigham Young University after transferring from the College of the Holy Cross. The entire semester, I struggled and wrestled with my…

Christians all across the globe are obsessed with the idea of Biblical Christianity. What exactly is Biblical Christianity and why do I as a life-long Christian object to it? Biblical Christianity has different meanings to different faiths due to varying levels of sola scriptura (by scripture alone), but it encompasses…