The Problem with Being Pro-Truth
Mormons have a lot of easily recognized sayings.* These phrases are crafted after years of cultural interactions and are sometimes memorized as a response to a problem. Many of these sayings are harmless such as “please bless this food to nourish and strengthen our...
Chocolate Chip Cookies, Snicker Doodles, and the Current State of Dating at BYU
It’s the beginning of a new semester at BYU. This means that it is, once again, time for “the talk.” While we were given a couple of weeks to sow some wild oats (and by this I mean stay out of our apartments a little past midnight), the devotional this week was...
Why this feminist doesn’t support female ordination
I recently attended a conference in which Richard Bushman, Fiona Givens, and Terryl Givens fielded questions from an audience. One of the questions dealt with female ordination to the Priesthood. Fiona Givens answered that she disapproved of such efforts. Her belief...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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