![]() While training for and serving a church mission in Canada, in the mid-1990s, Eric shared a room and became acquainted with a fellow missionary named Mark Hacking. There, he learned just how much some people still despised that faith. 125 years later, Eric would be raised as a Mormon in the same Arkansas community where this wagon train initially departed. While encamped in southern Utah, local Mormons and Paiute Indians launched an ambush, brutally slaughtering the group, in what became known as the Mountain Meadows massacre. ![]() ![]() In a tragic twist of fate, they never reached their destination. In 1857, a company of 120 immigrants set out from a small Arkansas town, toward California. He participated with family members in his first secret temple ritual normally reserved for adults at the age of four, only to be excluded from a similar ceremony, involving his family, thirteen years later. House of Faith House of Cards tells the turbulent life story of their son, Eric, including all the typical Mormon experiences, and some extraordinary episodes no Mormon will ever encounter. ![]() When a young couple searched for clues connecting them to a famous ancestor, their journey led them on a path they never expected converting to Mormonism. "Brutally honest, insightful, and compelling storytelling." - Lyndon Lamborn, author of 'Standing for Something More' Honest." - Dan Barker, critically acclaimed author of 'Godless' and 'Losing Faith in Faith' ![]()
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