John Wayne Wardell

John Wayne Wardell is a Canadian, born in Alliston, Ontario. He graduated from Emmanuel Bible College with a B.Th. and from the University of Waterloo with a B.A. He went on and completed an M.A. at the University of Waterloo and a M.Div. at Knox Seminary in Toronto. He also has further training in Counselling with the Clinical Association of Pastoral Education, and he became a Specialist in Institutional ministry.

John has been an active minister for over forty years in various settings. For five of those years, he was the senior Chaplain of a maximum-security prison in Canada. He has retired now, but most recently he was the pastor of a church in Toronto where he served for twenty years. He is married to a wonderful lady named Earldine who is his helpmate in the ministry.

The study of history and theology has always been his passion. His varied experience and education have only increased this passion. In the following pages you will see that he doesn’t avoid controversial issues – but rather he deals with many such issues in great detail. In his analysis of the extensive history of Mormonism he does not try to conceal his adherence to the historic Christian faith as it is presented in the Old and New Testament. His interpretation of events and theology however is, first and foremost, based on his exhaustive research. Even if you do not agree with all his conclusions, you will find this book thought provoking and challenging.