Rewriting Mormon History
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” –Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Mormonism is sometimes faced with instances where words uttered by one Church leader come into conflict with words uttered by a subsequent Church...
Lying for the Lord?
The LDS Church is currently engaged in a systematic and officially endorsed effort to misrepresent some of its teachings to the outside world. This is not a new phenomenon. As far back as the Nauvoo period, “Joseph [Smith] publicly and repeatedly denied he was...
I, Apostate
I am an apostate. Or so I hear. It has recently come to my attention that certain members of my ward have taken to calling me an apostate, likely because of articles I have posted at Rational Faiths. It is hard for me to tell precisely what it is I may have said or...
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Goddess
I yelled in church today. I have never yelled in church before. And I have been going to church for over 35-years. Maybe it was about time. Maybe it was bound to happen. But nobody was more surprised than I when my simple question during Priesthood meeting became...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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