Category: Opposition to the Tanners
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LDS Church Sues Ministry (copyright / internet lawsuit)
On October 13, 1999 the Utah Lighthouse Ministry was served legal papers by the Mormon Church’s law firm, demanding the removal of portions of the 1998 LDS Church Handbook of Instructions from their website.
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Utah Lighthouse Ministry News Release and Statement on Settlement of Copyright Lawsuit
Our news release from November 2000, near the end of the copyright / internet lawsuit brought by the LDS Church against the Utah Lighthouse Ministry.
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Utah Lighthouse Ministry Statement on Copyright / Internet Lawsuit
A summary and clarification of circumstances surrounding the copyright lawsuit brought by the LDS Church against the Utah Lighthouse Ministry.
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A Response to Foster
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In our last newsletter, we included a statement by Dr. Lawrence Foster criticizing our work. Foster claimed that we were deliberately trying to avoid an interview with him. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were actually looking forward to meeting with him. Unfortunately, in his response to us…
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Lawrence Foster’s Response
By Lawrence Foster Following is a letter of response from Lawrence Foster, regarding our writing about him in the last issue of the Salt Lake City Messenger (No. 90, May 1996). Originally appeared in: Jerald and Sandra Tanner, “Lawrence Foster’s Response to Our Last Newsletter,” Salt Lake City Messenger, no. 91, November 1996, 19.
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Mormon FARMS
Many of our readers may be puzzled by the title of this article. When speaking of FARMS we are not referring to places where people cultivate the soil or milk cows, but rather to an organization known as the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.
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The Book of Mormon: Inspired Scripture or a Work of Fiction?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The battle began in the year 1830 when the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith published the Book of Mormon. Smith proclaimed that an angel had revealed that the ancient inhabitants of the New World had written a religious history on gold plates and that God had given him the power to…
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God Makers II Lawyer Threatens Tanners With Suit
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Unfortunately, our last newsletter regarding the video The God Makers II, has stirred up a real hornet’s nest. While we tried to be very accurate and tactful in our presentation, in an article entitled, “The Tanners Strike Again,” J. Edward Decker exclaimed: One would think that I’d have developed some…
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Roper Attacks “Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?”
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In a new publication by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (F.A.R.M.S.), the Mormon scholar Matthew Roper shows deep concern over the effect our book Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? has had upon the public: The first edition of Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? was published by the Tanners in 1963…
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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.