Did You Keep Your Baptismal Covenants this Week?
As my Sunday school teacher said, this is the time when God is sorting the wheat from the tares, when we find out who’s on the Lord’s side, when Christ’s followers step forward. He couldn’t be more right. The Saints’ duty was cut and dried this week the way it rarely...
MORMONISM’S NEW GHOST
When was the last time you heard someone tell a “real-life” ghost story in church? I can’t remember the last time, personally. Maybe I live in a boring ward. It seems that even though ghosts are a plausible part of our religious worldview, secular culture has had...
You Can’t Handle the Truth!
Possibly the least important question you could ask about a scripture story is, “Did it actually happen?” It doesn’t matter if Ruth or Nephi or Adam or Eve ever walked the earth or performed the acts imputed to them by the scriptures. It would be more constructive for...
Silver Linings Playgroup
Urie, Wyoming. Population: 262. Actually 263. A baby had recently been born into our family. And I was her stay-at-home dad while her mom taught school. Wyoming isn’t really made for stay-at-home dads. It consists mainly of empty, windy, baby-unfriendly sageland...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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