A Book Review – The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to attend a baptism of a new convert to the LDS church. Adult baptisms almost always make me weepy, because it’s so beautiful to see an adult freely choose to take upon them the name of Jesus Christ and become a...
Carol Lynn Pearson: Good-bye, I Love You
Goodbye, I Love You tells the true story of a wife and mother whose husband admits to a homosexual lifestyle that eventually dissolves their marriage. Though she doesn’t understand it, she finally accepts it and continues to love and support him. Carol Lynn Pearson is...
Carol Lynn Pearson: Beginnings
Carol Lynn Pearson stated that it was her husband’s determination that laid the foundation of her career. He loved her poems, and took them to various publishers only to be told “poetry doesn’t sell.” Borrowing money, her husband Gerald published two thousand copies...
Joanna Brooks, “The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories From An American Faith” – A Review
This is the first in a new series on our blog that will look at books either written by Mormon authors, or books that tangentially or directly intersect Mormonism. It is a review of Joanna Brooks’ “The Book of Mormon Girl.” This post is...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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