Criticisms of the LDS Church are frequently based on intentional misinterpretations of Mormon doctrine. This book provides useful clarifications and rebuttals of many of those misrepresented doctrinal and historical areas. It gives simple but authoritative answers to more than sixty often-asked questions posed by anti-Mormon detractors. The answers are direct and nonconfrontational, providing readers with a friendly, teaching way of responding to those who question them. 
The author points out pertinent biblical parallels to many situations. His answers are supported by appropriate scriptures, statements of modern prophets, writings of ancient Christian leaders, and corroborating findings by modern non-LDS scholars. 
Brother Gibson encountered his first anti-Mormon book while serving in the Scottish-Irish Mission in the early 1960s. Disturbed by what he read, he and a fellow missionary analyzed the inconsistencies in the book. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in communications. He and his wife, Bette, were married in the Salt Lake Temple. They are the parents of four children. His hobbies include mentoring several small businesses, reading, teaching, and speaking. He has served in numerous Church callings, including two bishoprics. From Clergy to Convert is his first book.

One-Minute Answers to Anti-Mormon Questions

Stephen W. Gibson

Horizon Publishers & Distribut

Horizon Publishers: an imprint of Cedar Fort Inc.

Success Beyond the Bottom Line: Secrets from LDS Entrepreneurs

Gibson

MicroFranchising: Creating Wealth at the Bottom of the Pyramid

'Microfranchising has clues and cautions to help create wealth and lift humanity from poverty by energizing communities, families and individuals to profit-making productivity in cooperation with guidance, education, and other resources from established businesses, financial institutions and philanthropists. Anyone interested in shrinking the bottom of the world's income and wealth pyramid to create real widespread sustainability and all the consequent social and health benefits should read this book.' - Joseph H. Astrachan, Kennesaw State University, US'What do buying honey, renting mobile phones and fitting prescription glasses have in common? Answer: they are all activities that have expanded in low-income countries through microfranchising. This book brings together the ideas of researchers and social entrepreneurs at the heart of a movement to turn microfranchising into a mechanism for sustainable poverty reduction on a scale to match microfinance. A seductive mix of advocacy and realism, analysis and case-study provides readers with the ingredients to make up their own mind about the potential of microfranchising as a development tool.' - James G. Copestake, University of Bath, UK
Poverty remains one of the most intractable problems in the developing world. Microfranchising offers great promise in alleviating poverty by aiding in the foundation of locally owned businesses. Microfranchising is defined as small businesses whose start-up costs are minimal and whose concepts and operations are easily replicated. It involves the systematizing of microenterprises to create and replicate turnkey businesses for the poor. With the awarding of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, attention has increased on this remarkable concept. 
This unique book provides an overview of the need to alleviate poverty and what methods have been used in the past to do so (e.g. microcredit). It then introduces the concept of the microfranchise and discusses how this business model can be used in poverty alleviation. Different models of microfranchising are reviewed and specific case studies highlighted to show how it has worked in different parts of the world. This book concludes with a discussion of the advantages as well as the potential problems and pitfalls that accompany microfranchising. 
This book is a must read for business scholars and economists, practitioners and lenders, members of NGOs dedicated to poverty alleviation and anyone else who is interested in learning about an innovative, business focused tool to alleviate poverty.
Contributors: N. Blumenthal, L.J. Christensen, W.G. Dyer, Jr., J.S. Fairbourne, N. Felder-Kuzu, M. Fertig, S.W. Gibson, J. Hatch, M. Henriques, M. Herr, M. Hoyt, E. Jamison, F. Jiwa, J. Kassalow, G. Macmillan, K. Magleby, H. Tzaras, J. Van Kirk, B. Wood, W. Woodworth

Business & Money

Jason S. Fairbourne

W. Gibb Dyer

Economics

Edward Elgar Publishing

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