The Hole in Our Gospel – A Book Review
I first read The Hole in our Gospel, by Richard E Stearns in the spring of 2011. It was highly recommended to me with the amazing promise of how it would change my perception of the scriptures and my place in the world. But it also came with the warning that it...
A Short Stay in Hell – A Book Review
Eternity, when put into proper perspective, is a most terrifying concept. As a child, my sister would occasionally suffer from late-night bouts of anxiety as her young, imaginative mind contemplated what we might refer to as “the eternities.” “I don’t want to go to...
The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir (A Book Review)
“Impossible is Nothing,” it said. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not...
This Is My Doctrine: The Development of Mormon Theology By Charles Harrell – Book Review
Growing up in the church I was taught that revelations and doctrines build upon one another in a linear upward path, “line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little”. Not only do doctrines build upon one another, but they also don’t contradict...
A Midwife’s Tale: A Mother-Daughter Review of Faith and Feminism
A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 By Patty Williams (mother) – “A Midwife’s Tale” does not read like a novel. It is a factual account of the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary. I was not immediately drawn...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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