Merrie Tawgg committed many sexual indiscretions in her younger years. Because of this, her four older children grew up never knowing the identity of their fathers. For reasons only known to Merrie and her best friend, Merrie kept the fathers identities a secret. When the children become adults, they perform a search to find this missing link in their lives. Through watching her children in this search, and the loss of one, Merrie learns that the most important thing in life is not the sec...

What are the differences between the practices of Mormonism and the Bible? Is the Jesus of the Mormon Church the Jesus of the Bible? In Mormonism Jesus is a man who became one of many gods. Biblical Christianity teaches Jesus was always God, and that there is only one God. Why is it most Mormons do not talk about these and other controversial differences? Further, Mormon teachings consider the Book of Mormon as equal to the Bible and accept several other books as inspired writings. What is...

Is Mormonism the only true church and all of Christianity wrong? Being "temple worthy" is an important practice in the Mormon tradition, but do promises made in this process stand inconsistent with biblical Christianity? What about Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church? How did he receive his revelations and prophecies? This study features 3 prominent Mormons who have left the LDS Church and have become Christians. It will help you learn more about this movement and how you can be...

The mysterious disappearance of recent high school graduate Livvy Whitlock took place in the summer of 1960. Her whereabouts was revealed thirty years later. Thirty-eight-year-old interior decorator Mattie Noble, who was eight years old at the time of the disappearance and lived on the same Pittsylvania County, Virginia, tobacco farm as Livvy, has always held the key to solving the mystery, though she did not know it. "Together, Mattie and Ms. Happy (Livvy's mother) . . .retell how the mys...

The year is 2005. The setting is Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Stolen Four Minutes tells the gripping story of the discovery of what happened to five-year-old Semmy Barrels after she was abducted twenty-nine years ago.Semmy's mother, Teasy, not knowing the whereabouts of her daughter suffers grievous pain year after year. She finally collapses into a coma and communicates telepathically to her twin sister, Mia, that the only way she will come out of the coma is by hearing of Semmy...

While some may view Jerald and Sandra Tanner only as despised critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it is impossible to trace the course of Mormon history over the past sixty years without acknowledging their contribution. Many both inside and outside of Mormonism respect them for their unflinching quest for truth no matter the cost, as when Jerald declared Mark Hofmann’s notorious Salamander Letter a forgery months before some experts declared it authentic. Their Uta...

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen fundierten Überblick über lerntheoretische Grundlagen, altbewährte sowie moderne und integrative Techniken und Methoden wie auch das praktische Vorgehen der klassischen und kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie. Dabei wird ein umfassendes Spektrum störungsspezifischer Anwendungsgebiete beleuchtet. Berücksichtigt werden Änderungen im aktuellen Diagnosesystem ICD-11, verschiedene Settingbedingungen, neue Entwicklungen der "Dritten Welle" sowie Methoden und Verfahren in E...

Mitt Romney's run for President of the United States and the recent success of the Broadway play “Book of Mormon” has created enormous interest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In spite of enormous media focus during this so-called Mormon Moment, coverage has been often shallow and misleading, even from the LDS Church. Few reporters dug deep enough to deal with the evidence that the Mormon Church is in a deep crisis, not only because of members leaving but because of inc...