In this episode, we welcome Bill McKeever, founder and president of Mormonism Research Ministry (MRM). We ask Bill about how he started researching Mormon history and theology, and what led to the founding of MRM. Bill then takes us through a bunch of examples of how he separates fact from folk-tale in Mormon historical claims, and why it matters. We end with a question as to whether he, as a Christian, uses a double-standard when it comes to the Mormon faith, and the Christian faith.

Mormonism Research Ministry

Viewpoint on Mormonism

Utah Christian Research Center

Books by Bill:

Mormonism 101: Examining the Religion of the Latter-day Saints

Answering Mormons’ Questions: Ready Responses for Inquiring Latter-day Saints

In Their Own Words: A Collection of Mormon Quotations

Other resources:

Scribes and Scripture: The Amazing Story of How We Got the Bible by John Meade and Peter Gurry

What Is Faith? by J. Gresham Machen (and here)

Jesus’ Resurrection and Joseph’s Visions by Robert Bowman

Testimonies to the Truth: Why You Can Trust the Gospels; The Eye of the Beholder: The Gospel of John as Historical Reportage; Hidden in Plain View: Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts by Lydia McGrew

The Case for Biblical Archaeology by John Currid

On the Reliability of the Old Testament by K.A. Kitchen

The Bible Among the Myths by John Oswalt

The Gospel Code by Ben Witherington III

The Forgotten Trinity by James White

Simply Trinity by Matthew Barrett

Who Is God? by Richard Bauckham

The Incarnate Christ and His Critics by Robert Bowman and J. Ed Komoszewski

Christ and the Bible by John Wenham

Exegetical Fallacies by D.A. Carson

God, Language and Scripture by Moises Silva

The God of Miracles by C. John Collins

Thanksgiving by David Pao

Confessions; The City of God by Augustine

When Grace Comes Home: How the Doctrines of Grace Change Your Life; When Grace Transforms: The Character of Christ’s Disciples Put Forward in the Beatitudes; When Grace Comes Alive: Living Through the Lord’s Prayer by Terry Johnson (and here)

Cracking the New Perspective of Paul by Robert J. Cara

Defending Substitution by Simon Gathercole

Justification Reconsidered by Stephen Westerholm

Christianity at the Crossroads; The Question of Canon; Canon Revisited by Michael Kruger

Christianity and Classical Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan

Reclaiming the “Dark Ages” by Iain Wright and Yannick Imbert

The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science by Peter Harrison

How Christianity Changed the World by Alvin J. Schmidt