Category: Modern Microfilm and UTLM
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Tiff Over a Black Hole
Since 1959, we’ve published material critical of Mormonism, prompting silence from church leaders until our 1990 book on the Book of Mormon’s “black hole” spurred attacks.
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Are You Part of the Team?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner There are three main groups of people that provide most of the support for this ministry: Since we want a large number of people to read the books and come to the truth, we try to provide them at the lowest possible cost to our readers. Consequently, the money we…
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Major Problems of Mormonism (book release news)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner We are pleased to announce the completion of our new book, Major Problems of Mormonism. Although our most comprehensive work, Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? has proved to be very effective in bringing many Mormons to the truth, it contains more material than some people wish to read. In addition, we have…
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CRI Statement Ends Witchcraft Dispute
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Most of our readers are aware of the fact that for a number of months we have been involved in a disagreement concerning the question of whether the Mormon temple ceremony came from witchcraft and Satanism. The conflict centered around William Schnoebelen, a man who participated in both witchcraft and…
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Getting Rich?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Utah Lighthouse Ministry is a non-profit organization which is supported by both Christians who are anxious to help the Mormons find the truth and members of the Mormon Church who feel that the church is suppressing important information which needs to be in the hands of the public. Mormon apologists…
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Our Ancestry Questioned
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Beginning in 1980, Robert and Rosemary Brown, a Mormon couple who live in Arizona, began questioning the claims of Mormon critics concerning their credentials and ancestry. They started out by showing that D. J. Nelson had a phony Doctor’s degree. They then attacked Walter Martin and Wayne Cowdery. They alleged…
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Nightmare Ends at the Supreme Court (Clayton Diaries copyright suit)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the April 1986 issue of the Salt Lake City Messenger we printed an article entitled, “LAW SUIT OVER—UNFAIR VERDICT IS OVERTURNED.” In this article we told how a man by the name of Andrew Ehat, with the help of a lawyer who represents Brigham Young University’s Religious Studies Center,…
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Lawsuit Over: Unfair Verdict Is Overturned (Clayton Diaries copyright suit)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner On April 28, 1983, the Mormon scholar Andrew Ehat filed a lawsuit against us (Jerald and Sandra Tanner) in an attempt to stop publication of some extracts from the diaries of Joseph Smith’s private secretary, William Clayton. Because these diaries contain embarrassing material on the origin of polygamy and other…
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Update on Appeal (Clayton Diaries copyright suit)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner On May 15, 1985, the final hearing on our appeal of the Ehat lawsuit was heard before three judges of the 10th circuit court. The hearing went very well for our lawyer. Mr. Ehat’s lawyer, on the other hand, had a difficult time fielding the thorny questions the judges threw…
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Tanners’ Riches
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The following appeared in a letter which we received from Minnesota: Dear Mr. and Mrs. Tanner: . . . I have a Mormon friend that claims that you . . . are involved in anti-Mormon publishing because of the money involved. . . . Would you folks like to address the charge that you are only…