The Mormon Women Speak Podcast: The Erasure of Black Women in Sam Young’s Movement? Plus “The Hushed Ones” Documentary (Episode 10; 294)
http://media.blubrry.com/rationalfaiths/p/rationalfaiths.com/podcast/294-Mormon_Women_Speak_Poidcast_Sam_10.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSWhy are People of Color absent from progressive Mormon movements like Protect...
Thoughts on Sam Young, Excommunication, and Responding to Internal Dissent
This past week Sam Young announced that he had been excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for his aggressive advocacy to change the youth interview process. In Sam Young’s excommunication letter, he was informed by his Stake...
Musings of a May-December Hopeful Romantic
CW: Mothers favored in the LDS Church/Women’s worth tied in with child-bearing Last week, Russell M. Nelson became the new Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His wife, Dr. Wendy Watson Nelson is an accomplished writer and former...
Jesus Christ, Demigod
Recently in my doctoral work, I have been studying what Mormons consider part of the Great Apostasy- the first four ecumenical councils- which include the Council of Nicaea (325CE), the Council of Constantinople (381CE), the Council of Ephesus (431 CE), and the...
Nix the Negativity Narrative
“Woe is me! The end is nigh! Only the Apocalypse can save us now! Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war! All is lost!” It seems like this is what I hear all the time now at Church – thundering cries of despair and panic echoing from the pulpit and out of the...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
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