When he was a student at Brigham Young University three years ago, Anthony Willey came across a Wikipedia page on Mormons. What he read filled him with frustration.

The article focused on polygamy, which seemed odd since Mormons officially outlawed the practice in 1890. "It didn't say what Mormons believe or what made them unique," Willey said. "I had the thought, 'Who's editing this stuff?' and that got me hooked."

Since editing that page and adding 50 percent to the content, Willey has made more than 8,000 edits to the editable online encyclopedia, mostly on articles related to Mormonism. His top edited pages include entries on Joseph Smith, Mormons, Mormonism, and Black people and Mormonism.

The problem confronting many Wikipedia editors is that religion elicits passion — and often, more than a little vitriol as believers and critics spar over facts, sources and context. For "Wikipedians" like Willey, trying to put a lid on the online hate speech that can be endemic to Wikipedia entries is a key part of their job.

Religion is among several of the top 100 altered topics on Wikipedia, according to a recent list published by Five Thirty Eight. Former President George W. Bush is the most contested entry, but Jesus (No. 5) and the Catholic Church (No. 7) fall closely behind.

Islam's Prophet Muhammad (No. 35) and Pope John Paul II (No. 82) are included, as well as all manner of religions, like Jehovah's Witnesses, Islam, Christianity and Scientology. And countries and topics with religious sensitivities are also controversial, including global warming and Israel.

It's difficult to describe what it was like accepting Jesus Christ and then attending Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, Calif., during what has become known as the "Jesus Movement." It was revival: It seemed as though everyone was either a follower of Jesus or becoming one. The Holy Spirit was bringing a generation into the kingdom of God, and a culture was being transformed.

At the heart of this revival was an expectation and a hope, a blessed hope that Jesus was coming again soon and that we all needed to be ready. We cried out "Maranatha"—"O Lord, come!" (1 Cor. 16:22, NKJV) and sang of His soon return.

I'm now 41 years from my spiritual birthday. Some might ask, "Where is His return?" The apostle Peter predicted that, with the continuation of time, some would wonder about and mockingly question the return of Jesus:

… scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. ... But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance (2 Pet. 3:3-4,8-9, NKJV).

Peter was clear that Jesus was neither slow nor late in keeping His promise. Peter's statement that "one day is as a thousand years" suggests that time is experienced differently in heaven than on Earth. In that heavenly timeframe, Jesus has been gone only a couple of days.

My name is Mark Phelps and I grew up a 'PK' - preacher's kid! My father was a preacher by the name of Fred Phelps. He was preacher at Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Maybe you have heard of him.

I remember when I was a very young boy, listening to my father one Sunday morning speak about a man named Billy Graham. At that time I was not sure who Billy Graham was but I knew he must be a bad man.

My father said Billy Graham was telling lies about God; that Billy Graham had said 'God is good'.

On this particular Sunday I remember . . . during my father's preaching he laughed about this, and made fun of Billy Graham, and mocked Billy Graham. He said that God was not good and that God was going to punish Billy Graham for telling lies about Him. My father told the church that God hates most everybody, and to say that God is good is a lie!

As it happened, during the week just prior to this particular Sunday, my father got angry with my mother. He was yelling at her; loud and mean, using filthy curse words, and he was throwing furniture, and knocking furniture over, and crashing mayonnaise jars, and mustard jars, and glass plates with left-overs from the refrigerator, all over the floor and walls. And he was hitting the walls with his fist. And he was hitting my mother. He threw her down the stairs, and as she was falling, she reached for something to catch herself and pulled her right arm out of the socket. She suffered for years from the effects of that fall.

And we were alone again. Each of us, my brothers and sisters and me, hunkered in the dark; TERRIFIED; shaking, shivering, and wishing he would stop.

I guess on this particular Sunday I must have started believing my father. I must have started believing him . . . when he said God hates most of humanity, and God is not good.

I am sure he must have told me God was not good and God hates most everybody at other times, before this Sunday. But this was the Sunday I finally remembered what he said; and I believed him; probably because during the week before this particular Sunday, my father was so hateful and mean to my mother, and to me and to my brothers and sisters . . . again. And I felt scared and alone, and I finally despaired! I think something happened in my soul the day I started believing my father. And it happened because of the way little kid's hearts are wired. For some reason children tie their view of God in with their view of their parents, sad to say. It occurs to me now that the day I believed God was not good was the day I realized my dad was not.