005: Mormon Women’s Group Meets with LDS PR Department – A Chat w/Jerilyn Hassell Pool
https://media.blubrry.com/rationalfaiths/content.blubrry.com/rationalfaiths/Jerilyn2.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSAfter our chat with Jerilyn regarding her performing a marriage for a lesbian couple, we started chatting about...
Rethinking Sin
What if sin is a feature of life rather than a flaw? What if we were sent here not to be perfect, but . . . to sin? No matter how often we tell ourselves that we’re perfect in Christ, that we don’t have to be perfect because He is, we still beat ourselves...
Translated Correctly: Joseph Smith and the Art of Interpretation
Joseph Smith stood on the line dividing visionary supernaturalism from rational Christianity—one of the many boundaries between the traditional and modern world. –Richard Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling I’ll admit it: I’m a Joseph Smith fangirl. I love the...
Putting Down Our Stones
“Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun who worked among the poor in India most of her life, spoke this profound truth: ‘If you judge people, you have no time to love them.’ The Savior has admonished, ‘This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved...
Armand Mauss and the Coronation of Emperor Napoleon: The Politics of Graceful Dissent
ARMAND MAUSS AND THE CORONATION OF EMPEROR NAPOLEON: THE POLITICS OF GRACEFUL DISSENT By Brian Whitney, 5/23/14 The role of academics is to complicate seemingly simple matters. Armand Mauss was a sociology professor for 25 years. He has written college curriculum in...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.
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