“God Will Provide Himself A Lamb” (An Easter Sermon)
(First, a note on hermeneutics. I make no attempt here to claim authorial intent; in fact, far from authorial intent, I think that any Christianization of the story of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac cannot be what the author(s) intended. Rather, this should be...
I Didn’t Watch General Conference
As a Rational Faiths permablogger I have an assigned date each month for my blog. On this month my assigned date is three days after General Conference. So I knew going in that I would need to watch Conference to have something to write about for my post this month....
Polygamy and the Modern Mormon
It should come as no great surprise that many Mormons are troubled by polygamy. HBO’s Big Love, Warren Jeffs, and Mitt Romney’s presidential run have kept the practice on the cultural radar. More recently, the Church released a series of Gospel Topics essays on the...
54: April 2015 General Conference Review
https://media.blubrry.com/rationalfaiths/content.blubrry.com/rationalfaiths/generalconferenceapril2015.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSWe at Rational Faiths know that only 12, or 11.5, hours of general conference is not nearly...
Upon The Cross
The cross has a long history in religious culture. Even before Christianity, variations of the cross were used as a symbol of life and consecration. The cross became a popular symbol among Christians a few hundred years after Christ’s death. It has become a symbol of...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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