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The “Vicious Lies” of the Nauvoo Expositor: A $50 Challenge!
Former Mormons frequently accuse the church of distorting or whitewashing its history. Does this charge have any credibility? Perhaps we can recruit the readers of this blog to answer this question...
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Defending the Expositor: Joseph a Land Speculator?
Last week I issued a challenge for people to find something in the Nauvoo Expositor which was a blatant lie about Joseph Smith. Doing so would support the claims made in a LDS primary manual that the...
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Defending the Expositor: Indecent Proposals – Part 1
A few months ago I issued a challenge for anyone to point out something published in the Nauvoo Expositor which was a “vicious lie” in order to support a statement from the Primary 5 lesson manual that...
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Defending the Expositor: Indecent Proposals – Part 2
In part 1 of this report, an assertion that the Nauvoo Expositor had published a “vicious lie” that Joseph had made improper proposals of plural marriage to women in the church. By examining the...
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Discrediting the Expositor, Part 1: The Conflicted Men of the Nauvoo City...
A year ago I proposed that readers identify and submit examples of “vicious lies” that were told by William Law and other authors of the Nauvoo Expositor – A newspaper published by Mormon defectors and...
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Defending the Expositor: “Then are ye damned”– A Response to Brian Hales, Part 1
Over a year ago I issued a challenge for readers to document a “vicious lie” contained by the Nauvoo Expositor. Submissions have spanned topics from land speculation to indecent proposals. The most...
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Discrediting the Expositor, Part 2: Examining the Witnesses
In our series on “Discrediting the Expositor” we are examining the response of Joseph Smith and the members of the Nauvoo City council to the publication of the Nauvoo Expositor in the summer of 1844....
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