The waters of Mormon

Saturday my ward had three convert baptisms: a father and his two sons. I was unable to attend the baptisms—I was cleaning the ward building with my family that morning—but witnessed their confirmations on Sunday.

The spirit that accompanied the confirmations was incredible; tears flowed freely from my eyes and I noted others around me also reached for tissues to dry their teary eyes. The wife and mother of these new converts, a formerly inactive member, also wept as her family received the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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The Problems with Debunking and a fix or three

Literary critic/rhetorician/philosopher Kenneth Burke pointed out a large problem with any program of debunking that I believe applies to Anti-Mormons, Mormon Apologetics, and even the kind of debunking that goes on at Sunstone symposia, in the pages of Dialogue (and others), or even on the Bloggernacle.

(Warning: very long post below the fold).

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