View from the Back Pew

We’re All a Bunch of Liars

by Milt Radford | Sep 9, 2015 | Featured, Lying | 1 comment

I once taught management courses to nurses at a hospital. In one particular class, I quoted a study that tried to quantify how often people lie, either to themselves or others. I don’t remember the exact number but it’s a lot. Most lies are diplomatic. “Abish, that...

Search RationalFaiths

Make a monthly donation

Make a one-time donation

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.

Quote of the Month

"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt." (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Tweets by @rationalfaiths