LDS POLEMICS
Response to Reasons to Believe brochure, “Kolob, the Mormon Masterplanet,” June 1997, posted on the SHIELDS web site.
Response to B. A. Robinson, “Opposition to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” posted on the SHIELDS web site.
Response to About, Inc., “Ten Points for Disbelief in Mormonism,” posted on the SHIELDS web site.
“Shades of Darkness,” FARMS Review of Books 12/2 (2000)
“A Response to Dick Baer,” unpublished paper, 1985, posted on the SHIELDS web site.
“Response to Jehovah’s Witness Articles on the LDS Church,” unpublished paper, 1997 (co-authored with Matthew Roper), posted on the SHIELDS web site.
“A Response to ‘Opposition to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’,” posted on the SHIELDS web site.
“Newly-Discovered First-Century Documents,” a spoof posted on FAIR and other web sites.
“An Anthropologist Looks at the Bible,” a spoof posted on the SHIELDS web site under a pseudonym, “B. Ware Kee,” which treats the Bible the same way critics treat the Book of Mormon.
“Solving the Christian Puzzle,” a spoof posted on the SHIELDS and other web sites, which demonstrates how the tactics of the Southern Baptist Convention’s “Solving the Mormon Puzzle” can be used against any Christian group.
“Did Luke Preach ‘Another Jesus’?” a spoof based on the claim that Latter-day Saints worship a “different Jesus” from the one in the Bible, posted on FAIR web site.
“The Nature of Prophets and Prophecy,” posted on FAIR and SHIELDS web sites, 2002.
“Response to Questions from the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry,” posted on the SHIELDS web site.
“A Response to Ron Rhodes and Marian Bodine, Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Mormons,” posted on the SHIELDS web site.
“Great and Specious Arguments: Jerald and Sandra Tanner on FARMS,” posted on the SHIELDS web site.
“Will the Real Martin Luther Please Stand Up,” posted on the FAIR web site, May 2008.
“Is There a ‘Priesthood of All Believers’?” posted on the FAIR web site, December 2008.
RESPONSES TO SPECIFIC CRITICISMS
“Is God Only a Spirit?” posted on the FAIR web site, December 2004.
“The temple in New Jerusalem,” posted on the SHIELDS web site.
“The nature of the Godhead,” posted on the SHIELDS web site.
“Ongoing revelation,” posted on the SHIELDS web site.
“Blood atonement,” posted on the SHIELDS web site.
“Gift of the Holy Ghost,” posted on the SHIELDS web site.
“Name of the Church,” posted on the SHIELDS web site.
“Joseph Smith as a Martyr,” posted on the SHIELDS web site, November 2008 (co-authored with Malin Jacobs).
“Toward Understanding the Creeds and the Godhead,” a three-part series posted on the Meridian Magazine web site, January 2009: Part 1, Part 2, .