The Option of Free-range (Independent) Ways to be Mormon (Blog Series)

 

• The "Independent (Free-range) Mormon" Defined & Explained: A Case for the Option of Nondeminational or "Free-Range" Mormonism 

• Being an Independent Mormon (i.e. Non-Denominational Free-range Mormon)

• Big Tent Mormonism: Beyond "Mormon Demoninationalism" &  Toward "Unified Mormonism"

• The Metaphor of Farmhands vs. Zookeepers: The Farm-like "Ecclesia" versus Zoo-like Brethrenism as a Metaphor for Two Kinds of Mormon Leaders and Ways to be Mormon 

•  Mormon Scripture through the Smith-Pratt Lens

• Is Revelation obtained Only through Brighamite (LDS) Church Presidents? Or is Revelation a Gift of the Spirit available to All Mormons?

• The Smith–Rigdon Movement: The freed spirit of expression among the various Book of Mormon "sects and movements"

• The Same Pattern of an Inevitable Tension between Philosophical Mystics & Controlling Dogmatists, Repeats Itself in both the Bible and in Mormonism

• Jesus and the Samaritans & The Restoration Branches

• The Restored Ecclesia & Organic Church

• Pure Mormonism blog-site posts on Brethrenism

• The Modern Nauvoo Mormon

•  Scripture as the Mode of Becoming "Vitally Alive" through the God-Breathed "Implanted Word" (Logos) to Salvation (Deliverance) and Empowerment (Exaltation)

•  Should Prophets Be Ordained through a Succession of Offices held in Seniority?

•  The Restored Ecclesia & The Utah-based Church as a Corporation and Social Club

•  "Saving Knowledge" & Educative Ordinances As the Core of The Smith-Pratt Paradigm

• The "Divine" as the Good Operating Dimension (G.O.D.) that Produces The Garden of the Good (Ecclesia)

•  This is the Gospel!

•  The "Church" as the Zion-minded True Vine: A Loving People United as One in Genuine Friendships

• Solving the Puzzle of the LDS Godhead

• "Tithing Reform: What LDS Scripture Actually Teaches on Tithing"

• The Early Church & "Tithing"

• Converstation with a member of the Church of Christ (Temple Lot). We were founded April 6th, 1830 by Joseph Smith 

Some links to Mormon Groups, Movements, Denominations, and Sources, that Fit this more Independent Mormon paradigm:

• Uncorrelatedmormonism.com

• Youtube.com/@uncorrelatedmormonism

• Simply Scriptures (online Restoration Scriptures without the gloss of Brethrenism)

• Mormon Rescue YouTube Channel 

• Puremormonism.blogspot.com

• Restorationarchives.com

• Covenant of Christ: A Modern English Translation of the Book of Mormon 

• Nondenominational Edition of the Book of Mormon (see video here)

• The Church of Christ with the Elijah Message

• The Church of Christ Temple Lot

• The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)

• Community of Christ (RLDS)

• Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

• Indiemormon.com