The Pain of Orthodoxy
What are we to do? This week, every nerve of our social and moral sensitivity has been frayed, our temperaments rattled, and our hearts pulled in every direction. Questions pulse through every limb, leaving our spirits shocked, lost, and alone. Sometimes, it seems as...
FAITH CRISIS: A BELIEVER’S GUIDE
This was originally posted at www.mormonhistoryguy.com So you don’t really care about Mormon history. “People are people and the gospel is the gospel,” you say. What’s the point? You have a lot of things on your plate. And whether Joseph Smith used a rock, some...
Reforming the Reformation
We define ourselves by the stories we tell ourselves about our past, present, and future. And as a part of that narrative, the Saints have adopted—and co-opted—the religious traditions of the Protestants in their celebration of religious freedom. BYUTV produced an...
Review of Religion of a Different Color
When J. Kameron Carter, one of the more compelling theologians of black spirituality today, was asked about the shooting of Trayvon Martin, he argued that Christianity must “reckon with the fact of how our churches in many ways reproduces the very social structures...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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