In this episode, we begin our interview with 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