by Jacob Baker | Jan 1, 2015 | Featured, Mormon Humor, Mormonism |
Looking back over 2014, many deeply significant things happened in my life. Of course, I won’t talk about those here. Instead, below are a few semi-personal, half-true, completely insubstantial top 10 lists I cobbled together that are vaguely connected to 2014,...
by Jacob Baker | Dec 28, 2014 | Featured |
Someone else has left. Friend, family member, fellow guardian of once shared sacred truths. He’s found another path. Time will tell if she was called to this other path or if he was simply called away from our community, anywhere but here. He’s still here. God...
by Jacob Baker | Apr 26, 2014 | Featured, Homosexuality |
Summoned and Unsettled: Gay Mormons and the Power of the Face of Love by Jacob Baker Renowned Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) spent much of his life thinking about how and why we relate or fail to relate to others. A French Jewish prisoner of war during...
by Jacob Baker | Oct 28, 2013 | Featured, Theology |
Tragedy and Salvation “It is in affliction itself that the splendor of God’s mercy shines, from its very depths, in the heart of its inconsolable bitterness. If still persevering in our love, we fail to the point where the soul cannot keep back the dry,...
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