Shame, Modesty, and the Doctrine of the Body
In 1986, Elder Boyd K. Packer taught a significant truth about the power of doctrine. “True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the Gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior....
Spiritual Slaughter in Zion
In church lessons and talks, we often hold up the stories of Mormon expulsion – from New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Nauvoo – as moral lessons about brave pioneer ancestors following prophets, keeping covenants, and being preserved by the hand of the Lord....
Holding Fast to Sacred Things
Sometime on my mission I read Alma 37 with new eyes. The main focus of the chapter is Alma’s counsel to Helaman about how to care for the records of the Nephites. I’d always read it as just another instance of the Book of Mormon reinforcing its own significance. But...
We Are Just Not That Friendly
I’ve come to a surprising realization recently. Mormons, it turns out, may not be very good at making friends. I know you’re already thinking of plenty of objections right now. You have lots of friends. Your kids have lots of friends. You live in a super-friendly...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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