We Like Our Heaven Better
I have a family. We are a family. I bore these children, made from my own flesh and blood. I labor for them. I love them. I nursed them. I nourish them. But, when I listened to President’s Nelson’s talk on the Sunday Morning Session of General Conference,...
A Mother’s Blessing For My Daughters
It is impossible to be a mother of both sons and daughters and not notice external and even internal biases that are imposed upon our children. Blue for boys, pink for girls. Trucks for boys, dolls for girls. But there are also covert biases that exist. Recently, a...
Bread for Asherah
“and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven” – Jeremiah 7:18 Back when I was 17, I wanted more than anything to go to Bible college, so I went with my Baptist youth group to Columbia, South Carolina to visit the school. But my parents would...
The Deficiencies of Brown Bodies? My Pilgrimage with Guadalupe
Three weeks ago, the woman in charge of our English classes was going over dates in which there would be no class. December 26, for example, no class. She then asked about December 12. I looked at my four Mexican students. “12 de Deciembre?...God’s Gender Identity Crisis
Recently it was announced in a news report that the Episcopal Church is considering going gender-neutral when it comes to God. A committee was formed to review the best way to amend the Book of Common Prayer, removing any exclusively male language from the text, both...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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