An Attorney and a Gentleman

Show Notes:

STEVE DENSLEY, J.D. is an attorney, author, and the Executive Vice President of the Interpreter Foundation, an organization that supports the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through reliable scholarship. He has published articles in the Utah Bar Journal, the Journal of Law and Family Studies, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, and Meridian Magazine. He was the Executive Vice President of FairMormon from 2013-15, a recipient of the John Taylor Defender of the Faith Award, and was a producer of FairMormon’s podcast when it twice won the People’s Choice Award for Best Podcast in the Religion & Spirituality category. He has served as an Elders Quorum President, High councilor, Young Men’s President, Gospel Doctrine Teacher, and is currently the 1st Counselor in his Ward’s Bishopric.

Barriers to Belief by Steve Densley

https://www.fairmormon.org/conference/august-2018/barriers-to-belief?fbclid=IwAR2BwLk_HQMSmA6anOmFAZH4VTu01Kf1z1Sbdh_rS0lGLF8aQMQQEQGO0_4

Should We Apologize For Apologetics? by Steve Densley

https://www.mormoninterpreter.com/should-we-apologize-for-apologetics/?fbclid=IwAR0WkvKCOonoNpYRGZGQDrRJIIAUT9RsqpqM6NbXBqNnNYbzLjRU8KHMiVE

This is a Woman's Church by Sharon Eubank

https://www.fairmormon.org/conference/august-2014/womans-church

*QUOTE FROM JOSEPH SMITH (as reported by Daniel Tyler)

“When the Prophet had ended telling how he had been treated, Brother Behunin remarked: ‘If I should leave this Church I would not do as those men have done: I would go to some remote place where Mormonism had never been heard of, settle down, and no one would ever learn that I knew anything about it.’

“The great Seer immediately replied: ‘Brother Behunin, you don’t know what you would do. No doubt these men once thought as you do. Before you joined this Church you stood on neutral ground. When the gospel was preached, good and evil were set before you. You could choose either or neither. There were two opposite masters inviting you to serve them. When you joined this Church you enlisted to serve God. When you did that you left the neutral ground, and you never can get back on to it. Should you forsake the Master you enlisted to serve, it will be by the instigation of the evil one, and you will follow his dictation and be his servant.'"

*Daniel Tyler, in “Recollections of the Prophet Joseph Smith,” Juvenile Instructor, Aug. 15, 1892, pp. 491–92; punctuation and grammar modernized.