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Jacob Hansen’s False Version of Joseph Smith’s First Vision

Jacob Hansen is a Latter-day Saint apologist who appeared on Allie Beth Stuckey’s “Relatable” podcast on April 27, 2026. The…
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That Ain’t the Trinity: Responding to Bart Ehrman’s Strawman Argument

Episode 186 of the Misquoting Jesus Podcast (May 12, 2026) was entitled “Is the Trinity Really in the Bible?” In…
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Women as Witnesses to the Empty Tomb

Correggio, Noli Me Tangere (c. 1525) Today is Resurrection Sunday! As a follow-up to my article…
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We Know Where Jesus Was Buried

James Tissot - Women see the angel at the tomb In observance of Holy Saturday, here…
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Reliability of the Text: Mormons and the Old Testament #4

We saw in the first article in this series, “Mormons and the Old Testament Canon,” that the LDS Church accepts…
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The KJV and Other Bibles: Mormons and the Old Testament #3

  We continue our series on Mormons and the Old Testament by discussing the King James Version (KJV) in Mormonism.…
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Pigs in the Parlor: An Amazon Reviews Mystery

Amazon’s ranking of book reviews may be a mystery to many readers. I know it was for me. Take, for…
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Lost Books? Mormons and the Old Testament #2

We saw in the first article in this series that the LDS Church accepts the same books in the Old…
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Mormons and the Old Testament Canon: Mormons and the Old Testament #1

This article is the first in a projected series on Mormonism and the Old Testament. Throughout this year (2026), the…
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A Deep Dive in Alma 5 as a Core Sample in the Book of Mormon

In 2024, I began research on Alma 5:3–62, a speech that the Book of Mormon attributes to a first-century BC…
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From the Shema to the Homoousios: The Jewish Roots and New Testament Origins of the Nicene Creed

My paper, "From the Shema to the Homoousios: The Jewish Roots and New Testament Origins of the Nicene Creed," has…
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Philo on Abraham’s Three Visitors: Evidence of a Pagan Origin of the Trinity?

This is a follow-up to my previous post, “Unitarians, William Inge, and the Platonism in Christianity.” Unitarian apologist Carlos Xavier,…
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