The word faith is used constantly in religious conversations, yet few words are more misunderstood. Many people think faith means believing something with no evidence, closing your eyes and hoping for the best, or simply…
I Went Looking for Truth—and Found Changes I Wasn’t Told About Many who leave the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did not begin their journey with doubt. Quite the opposite. They studied church…
Not Because I Lost Faith, but Because I Chose Truth I didn’t set out to change what I believed. I set out to understand it better. For a long time, I thought faith meant certainty—having…
You Didn’t Go Looking for Problems—You Went Looking for Truth If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you didn’t come here angry. You didn’t start studying church history because you wanted to tear something…
The Fear No One Says Out Loud—and the Truth Behind It For many people, the hardest part of questioning the LDS Church isn’t history. It’s fear. Not fear of being wrong—but fear of what happens…
When God Quietly Disappears from the Pulpit I remember sitting in a stake conference expecting to hear the Word of God opened, explained, and proclaimed. Instead, talk after talk followed a familiar pattern: But something…
Learning to Walk Without a Map You Were Told You Needed When people step away from the LDS Church, one of the first realizations is unsettling: “I don’t know how to do faith without structure.”…
For a church that claims continuous revelation, a striking pattern emerges when you slow down and look carefully: Nearly everything today is policy. Almost nothing is prophecy. That tension didn’t always exist—but it does now.…
Scripture, Sacrifice, and the Cost of Redemption When we talk about prophets ending, temples ending, and mediation ending, we cannot avoid the cross—because everything changed there. Scripture does not describe the crucifixion as merely a…
Why I Don’t Believe God Has Called a New Prophet—Yet As I’ve studied Scripture more deeply, one conclusion has slowly and steadily taken shape for me—not all at once, but piece by piece. I don’t…
