Do Smart Mormons Make Mormonism True?

A PDF version of this Document: http://goo.gl/JvlTY And Answers to Other “Tough Gospel Questions” in Reply to a Faithful Mormon Scholar’s Defence of Mormonism bob mccue June 20, 2004 Version 3 Nothing falsifies history more than logic. Fransois Guizot Introduction In a June 13, 2004 article on page B7 of the Observer/Faith & Reason section of…

Skydiving as Post-Mormon Therapy

For the last two Sundays, I attended Sky Church. The meetings involve confronting primal fear, and staring it down. This is done on the basis of a desire to fly, an intellectual understanding of the tiny risks you are in fact facing if you choose to do so. Then, while either staring down your demons,…

Life – Tightrope Or Creative Web?

One of Mormonism’s, and organized religion’s, fundamental premises is that the basic elements of our lives must be as they are. God created the cosmos, the Earth, and us. God mandated certain types of relationships. God mandated certain forms of social cialis institutions. Etc. As reality comes into better focus, one of the first things…

Gratitude In A Sunday Snowstorm

It is Sunday, March 22, 2009. I’m sitting in my living room at eight o’clock in the morning, staring through picture windows across the prairies and foothills toward the Rocky Mountains about 30 miles away. I can’t see the mountains. We’re in the middle of a spectacular spring snowstorm that started late last night. Snow…

Trevor Southey’s “Dark Light”

Trevor Southey is one of the greatest living Mormon or post-Mormon artists. You can see his work at http://www.trevorsouthey.com/ . His “Dark Light” has come to have significant meaning for me. You can find a picture of this work at http://picasaweb.google.ca/bob.mccue4… it is an approximately 3′ x 5′ mixed-media piece. A bronze figure, about 3 feet in…

The Power Of One

The power of example has been so over worked that I hesitated to compose this note. However, recent experience has revived this concept for me in a way worth recording. So here I go. Almost 20 years ago I began developing knee problems while attempting to train for what I thought was to be my…