Relationship and Sexuality Courses For LDS Couples
The Barker brothers are huge fans of Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife. She has appeared several times on Mormon Stories and Mormon Matters podcasts. She will be writing for us next month and we couldn’t be more excited about it. We saw a post from her Dr....
Dr. Lawrence Krauss Gets it Wrong….Again
Note: I am publicly apologizing for this post. In it I have taken Dr. Lawrence Krauss’ comment out of context. This was an honest mistake, as I was working from memory. When I wrote the post, I could not find the debate on You Tube to confirm the...
Holy Envy, Batman!
I don’t know of anyone who is part of any religious community who sometimes doesn’t suffer from the phenomenon of Holy Envy. This can sometimes come from a practice or belief you wish your particular faith community embraced or it can come from something as simple as...
“The Spirit That I Have Seen May Be The Devil”–Nephi’s Slaying of Laban
The opening pages of the Book of Mormon confront us with the most problematic story in the entire book—the murder of a defenseless Laban by a sword-wielding Nephi. (1 Nephi 4) We all know the story. Nephi has been commanded by God (through his prophet-father Lehi)...
Wing Tipped Shoes
by Michael Barker “A man may be counted a virtuous man though he have made many slips in his life…also a comely man and lovely, though he have some warts upon his hand, yea, not only freckles upon his face, but also scars.” (Miles Smith – one...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
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