Mormon Christianity is Complicated

It was more than four years ago that I wrote this defensive post for Huffington about Mormons being Christian. I didn’t think of myself as an apologist at the time. If you’d called me that, I’d have bristled and said that I was very well aware of the problems in Mormonism. I was what I thought of as a “middle way Mormon,” someone who was trying to change the church from within, who was trying to be rational about what was good and what was bad, and…