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How Much Would You Pay to Hear Nonsense?

February 19, 2021 | Tal Davis

My wife, Barbara, and I live about forty miles northeast of at Atlanta in Flowery Branch, Georgia. (You say you have never heard of Flowery Branch? Well, we have our own NFL football team.) Anyway, I was looking online for tickets to a play being preformed at a venue nearby.…

Russia, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Freedom of Religion

December 22, 2020 | Tal Davis

Anyone who has followed my work here at MarketFaith Ministries, or previously at the North American Mission Board’s Interfaith Evangelism team, knows that I am no fan of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. I regard them as a pseudo-Christian cult. Their theology is heretical, especially as regards the full deity of Jesus…

New Light on The Book of Abraham

October 10, 2020 | Tal Davis

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons/LDS) contends that it has four canonized written Scriptures that are authoritative for its doctrine and for the practice of its members. Those sources, referred to by the church as its “Four Standard Works” include The Bible (King James Version); The Book …

Update on the Mormon Money Investigation

March 2, 2020 | Tal Davis

Several weeks ago in this blog we discussed a stunning revelation by a whistleblower in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The revelation was made public late last year by a former LDS member named Lars Nielson (see his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDlFZF3RyhE). He revealed that an insider Mormon…

Is The Mormon Church Hoarding Billions of Dollars?

December 28, 2019 | Tal Davis

For decades I have been involved informing Evangelical Christians the truth about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Note: That church no longer refers to itself as the Mormon Church or the LDS church or to its members as Mormons. However, for space sake we will continue to…

The Passing of Gretchen Passantino Coburn

October 6, 2014 | Tal Davis

I doubt many of you have ever heard of Bob and Gretchen Passantino, but they were two of the most outstanding apologists and cult researchers in the field for more than three decades. Bob died in 2003 and I just learned that Gretchen, who had remarried a few years ago,…

The Fabric of Our Faith

June 12, 2014 | Tal Davis

A number of years ago I worked in the men’s clothing section of a large department store. I was not there long but I did learn a few things about the garment business. One key thing I learned was about the quality of various fabrics. Fabrics are the basic textile…

LDS Now Has 85,000 Missionaries!

April 7, 2014 | Tal Davis

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS/ Mormons) now has more than 85,000 missionaries working in 405 “Missions” around the world. That startling number was announced at the church’s semiannual World Conference earlier this week in Salt Lake City. LDS missionaries are primarily young men who take two…

Polygamy: The LDS Legacy That Won’t Go Away

December 17, 2013 | Tal Davis

In 1890, Wilford Woodruff, the then President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), issued a “Declaration” that, in effect ,suspended the Mormon doctrine of plural marriage (polygamy). Actually, polygamy was a notorious doctrine and practice of the LDS since the time of Joseph Smith. The practice…

Who is Marianne Williamson?

October 23, 2013 | Tal Davis

According to news reports this week, bestselling author, speaker, and social activist Marianne Williamson plans to run next year for the U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 33^rd District. That seat is currently held by 74 year old Democrat Henry Waxman. Williamson will run against him as an Independent.…

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