Missionary March Madness: Craziest Missionary Moment?
I had a conversation yesterday with a friend of mine who was a recently returned missionary. It was a lot of fun to reminisce about our experience serving as a missionary. We told crazy stories about mission rumors and urban legends, missionaries finding creative...
I Hope They Don’t Ask Me About My Mission
“Who here thought that their mission was the most important Spiritual experience in their lives?” the Elder’s Quorum instructor raised his hand expectantly while giving a lesson on missionary work. Most everyone raised their hand. I looked around, but the only others...
Reaching the Nations: International LDS Church Growth Almanac, 2014 Edition
Reaching the Nations: International LDS Church Growth Almanac, 2014 Edition by Matthew Martinich I began my serious study and interest in the worldwide growth of the LDS Church and missionary work in 2002. One day I had the thought that I did not know where all of the...
The Dilemma of Post Faith Reconstruction Missionary Work
I grew up giving a greater than normal dedication to my Mormon faith, but after a disheartening experience in the temple on my way home from the mission field, I completely lost faith in God and my religion. Over the next decade and a half I slowly reconstructed it...
Leaving the Garden and Companying with Sinners.
Most of my Mormon friends aren’t actively involved with the church. More than half of my core group of friends from high school haven’t participated since college. A surprising number of the friends I made on my mission and at BYU are now disenfranchised...LGBTQ Mormon Crisis
Two Printable handout for bishops and stake presidents that talks empirically about LGBTQ suicides:
The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide
Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis
The Barker Brothers’ Projects
These videos were created for Latter-day Saint parents and allies to voice their love for their LGBT brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. They want to give a message of comfort and support to other parents who are navigating the difficult conflicts that can arise in families around this issue.
“Cogito!” (“I think!”) follows the intellectual adventures of a recovering academic outside the walls of academia.
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