by James Patterson | Oct 30, 2018 | Blogs about Blogs, Featured |
If you haven’t been following along what seems to be a never-ending string of drama surrounding the Open Stories Foundation, I’ll give a brief recap of what’s happened in the last week. An anonymous person or group of people recently penned a Medium article outlining...
by James Patterson | May 31, 2017 | Featured |
Back in 2014, Open Stories CEO John Dehlin was asked to comment on the Church’s new series of essays that were designed to answer questions surrounding issues like Church history, race and the priesthood, polygamy, women and the priesthood and more. In an essay, John...
by James Patterson | May 23, 2017 | Featured, Mormonism |
One of John Dehlin’s signature lines on Mormon Stories is that “sunshine is the greatest antiseptic.” Perhaps that’s why there’s so much interest surrounding issues relating to the Open Stories Foundation, such as compensation, transparency, allegations of sexism and...
by James Patterson | Apr 30, 2016 | Apostasy, faith crisis, Featured, General authorities |
I had the unique opportunity of hearing Malcolm Gladwell speak in person a few weeks ago. I expected him to speak about outliers or perhaps tipping points, but instead he chose a topic that surprised me: rebellion. Why do people rebel? Many sociologists believe, as...
by James Patterson | Feb 12, 2016 | Excommunication, Featured |
Cast: (SP) Stake President (Apostle) An apostle making his way through the land (A) ‘Apostate’ man (WM1,WM2,WM3) Ward Members one, two and three Ward Members: (traipsing through the ward building, dragging around a non-descript looking man)We have found an apostate!...
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