Category: In the News
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Mountain Meadows Massacre — 150 Years Later
By Sandra Tanner “Halt! Do your duty!” With that command scores of zealous LDS priesthood leaders and followers, along with a few Indians, from the Cedar City, Utah, area fired on at least 140 unarmed, non-Mormon men, women and children. The killings were over in a matter of minutes, sparing only 17 or 18 children…
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LDS Church Growth
By Sandra Tanner While there is a popular assumption among Mormons that their church is the fastest growing faith, it is simply a myth. The Salt Lake Tribune reported on the problems of church growth: Today, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has more than 12 million members on its rolls, more than…
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1826 New York Court Documents Relocated
By Sandra Tanner In 1971 Presbyterian minister and scholar Wesley P. Walters scoured the areas surrounding Bainbridge, New York, looking for early documents relating to Joseph Smith. He was able to locate two documents connected to Smith’s 1826 arrest for practicing magic while working for Josiah Stowell. We immediately published the documents and since then…
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Ministry Files Lawsuit (Trademark)
Utah Lighthouse Ministry sued FAIR on April 25, 2005, in Salt Lake City federal court for trademark infringement and cybersquatting over 13 mimicking domain names. The suit demanded domain transfers and triple damages.
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LDS Church Ordains Two New Apostles
By Sandra Tanner With the death of two apostles this year the LDS Church was faced with the need to find two replacements. In spite of the fact that at least one third of the LDS Church membership is Latin American, the church turned to a North American and a German, both of whom are…
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Illinois Leaders Apologize to LDS
In an article in the Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, April 8, 2004, we read: Nearly 160 years after religious persecution in Illinois launched the Mormon exodus to the West, a delegation from the Land of Lincoln met Wednesday with LDS Church and state leaders to formally extend its regrets. It was in 1844 that…
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Bremen, Germany: An Example of Apostasy
Mormonism’s historical claims, like Joseph Smith’s First Vision, are shaky. Discrepancies in early records and revelations led some German LDS members to leave in 1997, as detailed in Dialogue and critical works.
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LDS Church Suppresses Documents
A report of how the LDS church tried to obtain research and historical documents of the late Dr. Leonard Arrington, which had been deeded to the Utah State University.
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Abuse – Special Report: $3 Million Settlement in Oregon
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner On September 5, 2001, The Oregonian reported a settlement deal between the LDS Church and Jeremiah Scott, the victim of child sexual abuse: The Mormon church on Tuesday announced the $3 million settlement of a sex-abuse case brought by a Portland-area man abused by a high priest as a boy,…
