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...
Why It Is Not Helpful To Tell Me To Leave
My arms ached. My back would feel it tomorrow. My fingers frozen from the nip of the wind. Tears welled in my eyes as I began to feel sorry for myself and the pathetic situation I was in. Again. As a single mother, snowfall doesn’t mean hot cocoa, snowmen, and...
Subtle Worlds: The Unofficial Temple Prep Guide
Recently, I read Subtle Worlds by David Spangler, which is a collection of “field notes” devoted to the subtle realms of the Spirit World. Through my dissertation research, I have been given the added privilege of speaking with David Spangler, and I find his theories...
Timshel
As a child, I was one of the most carefree kids in the world. I laughed a lot. I loved anyone and everyone I saw or met. There was no guile at all that I remember, except maybe towards my brothers for making me wash dishes while they watched baseball. I was like this...
“We are all Peter”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and an imperfect church
In the years before World War 2, Dietrich Bonhoeffer became increasingly distressed at the German church’s willingness to embrace and enable the Nazi regime in exchange for political recognition and power. On July 23, 1933, he delivered the “Church...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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