Author Archives: Aaron Shafovaloff

Say you know, even if you don’t know?

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Aaron Shafovaloff

“Quite simply, you can’t have a testimony until you bear it to someone. At the moment that you tell someone that you know X is true – even if you don’t know it yet – the Spirit will testify to … Continue reading →

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Five reasons not to “shut down”

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Aaron Shafovaloff

Five reasons not to “shut down” when someone wants to show you evidence that purportedly contradicts what/who you believe: 1. Curiosity. Curiosity is virtuous and healthy, and the only faith worth having is a curious faith. Faith seeks understanding. Faith … Continue reading →

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Evangelism is a form of worship, and Mormonism claims to let people worship according to their dictates of their conscience

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Aaron Shafovaloff

One of the ways we evangelicals worship the Most High God is by evangelism, and part of our evangelism is sometimes engaging false ideas about God and the gospel, and part of engaging false ideas about God and the gospel … Continue reading →

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Michael and Lynn Wilder’s Testimony

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Aaron Shafovaloff

Link to their book

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There are two fathers in heaven. Which one is yours?

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Aaron Shafovaloff

Everyone has a heavenly father. Which one do you have? There are two. One tells you who are here to be tested, the other tells you who are here to love and be loved. One encourages you to eat of … Continue reading →

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General Conference Must Have Been Exciting

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Aaron Shafovaloff
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More Facebook Censorship

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Aaron Shafovaloff
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#ldsconf

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Aaron Shafovaloff

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Atheism is just another blue pill

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Aaron Shafovaloff

We already live in Narnia. We live in a universe that had a beginning. Indeed, something exists rather than nothing (this alone is amazing). We live among embodied souls who have intrinsic dignity, beauty, and moral culpability. We live in … Continue reading →

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How Mormon beliefs chiefly perpetuate

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Aaron Shafovaloff

What was once explicitly taught and instilled often only needs implicit, suggestive support to perpetuate. If I tell my daughter a hundred times, “Daddy loves ice cream!”, and then every week after I say, “Let’s go to Leatherby’s and get … Continue reading →

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