My Mother’s Wedding
I was at my mother’s wedding. I was my mother’s nine-year-old bridesmaid, dressed in a royal blue velvet dress with a round neck and an empire line marked by a white lace trim. I followed my mother somberly as she made her way up the aisle of the Calvary Chapel to a...
A Testimony
This was originally posted on Adrienne’s blog at http://agnosticmormonmom.blogspot.com/ I Bore My Testimony? By Adrienne Rivetti Jensen So, yesterday I bore my testimony at church for the first time in well over seven years. What compelled me to do such a...
Apples and Oranges and Ligers…..OH MY!!!
Recently we have had two excellent posts, one written by Kelly Andersen (click here to read) and the other written by Chris Brewer (click here to read) that addressed the issue of how, as a Mormon culture, we tend to deify our leaders. This along with the...
Divine Family Modeling
Several weeks ago, I read an essay by Margaret Toscano entitled “Is there a place for Heavenly Mother in Mormon theology?” [fn 1] After an insightful analysis of the institutions surrounding Mormon theology, she answers, “No.” To critique her conclusion, I recruited a...
Teaching the Apostasy and Restoration to 14 & 15 Year Olds: A Lesson in Keeping it Simple Stupid
Introduction: I am not the regular teacher of the 15 and 16 year old youth in my ward. I was called earlier in the week and asked if I would help teach about the Great Apostasy and the Restoration. My concern is that the historical data does not necessarily point...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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