Author: Jeff Lindsay
As Good as Money in the Bank? Time to Worry More
A friend of mine, an attorney, had a job in California for a year and for convenience opened a bank account there with Wells-Fargo. He paid California income taxes that…
The Creation and God’s Love: Hints from a Surprise Encounter with a Geologist
On Sunday I’ll be speaking at District Conference for the the Shanghai International District on the topic of the Creation. I’ll begin with a journal entry of mine from August…
Cabbie Fail: A New Convert Learns the Blessings of Kindness
Yesterday a new convert in one of the Shanghai area branches shared a story she experienced shortly after her baptism. The woman is from Shanghai, married to a foreigner. When…
Slot Machines and Video Games: What You Need to Know About Their Addictive Design
The lives of some people very close to me have been shaken by one man’s long-denied gambling addiction. I can’t go into details. As in many cases, there is a…
China’s False God of Basketball Is Actually a Terrific Guy and Now China’s MVP: Kudos to Jimmer Fredette
When I was young, I used to wonder why people would worship false gods. But at this stage in my life, it’s easy to see why, especially now that I’ve…
Conversation with an Antique Map Dealer (and Acquisition of My First Antique Map)
On something of a whim, my wife and I met up with an Australian map dealer while he was in Shanghai last Saturday and bought our first antique map. It…
Evidence At Last: The Many Aspects of John Lloyd Stephens’ Work That Strengthened Mormons in the 1840s
A delightful trend in modern Book of Mormon criticism today is to scour books, articles, and maps for information that hypothetically could have aided Joseph Smith in fabricating many of…
In Defense of Dr. John E. Clark’s “Ludicrous” Assessment of Early Criticism of the Book of Mormon
Dr. John E. Clark’s presentation on archaeology and the Book of Mormon, the subject of a recent post here, has been taken to task by one of our critics for…
Why Faith Is Necessary to Appreciate the Value of (Book of Mormon) Evidence
LDS defenders sometime grow impatient, even flabbergasted, with critics who refuse to acknowledge the existence of any evidence for the Book of Mormon, in spite of what some of us…
Evaluating Book of Mormon Claims: Where Do We Stand after 187 Years?
After 187 years of critics poking fun at the Book of Mormon and exposing its weaknesses, today it seems to be the established view of numerous highly educated elites that…
