The tortured soul
My name is Jeremy Timothy and I suffer from depression. It’s taken me a while to get to where I can say that easily. I blogged my experience years ago when the pain was all very fresh here, here, here and here. I had some friends and family who felt...
U2 and Mormonism
I have always loved U2. I think pretty much everyone has a favorite U2 song. Even though the song “With or Without You” was played at every tri-stake dance when I was a teenager, I didn’t have a real connection with U2 until I began studying about...
This moment. Right now.
As many already know, Barb and Steve Young were the keynote speakers at the Affirmation conference. Affirmation is a group comprised of “Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals from every background and situation, united in the shared experience of a...
Gay Mormon For Marriage Equality
After taking another survey about being openly Gay and actively Mormon I felt the need to write a post for the RationalFaiths.com blog about what that means, how it happened and the reaction of various congregations I have come out to. Perhaps you are reading this...
Teaching Children Empathy
(This piece is cross-posted at No Poor Among Them). Several months ago, our family had a movie night. The film was Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid, a 1921 silent film where Chaplin plays–what else–a tramp who has fallen on hard times. To make matters more...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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