The Gays, the Blacks, the Atheists, and the Feminists: Why Women Will Get Priesthood Before Gays Have Total Inclusion
The Gays, the Blacks, the Atheists, and the Feminists: Why Women Will Get Priesthood Before Gays Have Total Inclusion in the LDS Church By Michael Barker In May of 2013, I listened to John Dehlin interview Dr. Ryan Cragun, an expert in the sociology of religion. In...
Why the Church is Truer Than the Gospel
WHY THE CHURCH IS TRUER THAN THE GOSPEL By Michael Barker I didn’t want to go to Church this past Sunday. There were two reasons: It was fast and testimony meeting and frankly I get little out of testimony meeting. Sometimes I even get quite frustrated. The...
“…The Opiate of the Masses…”
In 1843, the German economist and Communist political philosopher, Karl Marx said: “…Die Religion… ist das Opium des Volkes…” It has been translated various way, but most commonly is translated as: “…Religion is the...
You All are Going to Hell!!…Not!!: The Universalism of Mormonism
THE UNIVERSALISM OF MORMONISM By Michael Barker First, let me give the definitions of two words so everyone understands what the heck I’m talking about. The word universalim, as it pertains to religion, is the idea that everyone will be saved by God –...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
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