What Manner of Healing Is This: A Conversation on Womanist & Postcolonial Healing
The recent release of 2 essays (and subsequent responses) regarding Heavenly Mother as well as women and the Priesthood revealed differences between the concept of the divine feminine in LDS theology and culture versus concepts of the natural and supernatural rooted...
81: Navigating the Landscape of Online Mormonism: A Presentation From Sunstone-Kirtland Oct 2015
https://media.blubrry.com/rationalfaiths/content.blubrry.com/rationalfaiths/81SunstoneKirtlandPresentation2015.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSAt Sunstone Kirtland 2015 a few of the Rational Faiths folks presented on the topic...
Petitioning Heavenly Mother and the Call to Faithful Agitation
As I was reviewing the 1991 Ensign article “Daughters of God” by Gordon B. Hinckley, then First Counselor in the First Presidency, I began to see a correlation between Hinckley’s prohibition against praying to our Mother in Heaven and the later call...
Should Prophets Prophesy?
“Therefore when Tao is lost, there is goodness. When goodness is lost, there is kindness. When kindness is lost, there is justice. When justice is lost, there is ritual. Now ritual is the husk of faith and loyalty, the beginning of confusion. Knowledge of the...
I’ll Never Tell You to Choose to Believe
In college I lived down the hall from a very serious Christian. He worked hard to encourage others to be more active and outspoken about their Christianity. He was antagonistic to my Mormonism, considering it as non-Christian and me as having been led astray. We still...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.
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