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...
For our daughter.
I have identified as a feminist since roughly my junior year of high school, but, for a long time (probably longer than I’d like to believe), I had an emotionally-based reaction to the concept of women’s ordination. While I can honestly say I’ve never been intimidated...
Depression Is Not A Spiritual Problem
Huddled in the corner, using the glow of my laptop to shield myself from a filthy kitchen and a baby I didn’t know what to do with, I saw myself as a failure before God. I had been taught all my life that mothering would come to me naturally, just because I was a...
Mind, Body and Soul
“What is man that though are mindful of him?” – Psalm 8:4 What are we? How much of us is simply the result of brain chemistry? Is our consciousness an illusion? Is there any part of us beyond our body? Is our will an illusion and behavior determined?...
The Big Announcement: A Summary
by Michael Barker The Big Missionary Announcement: A Summary My brothers, as well as our friend Jerilyn, all watched the live-stream Church broadcast this Sunday afternoon. And I, for one, was underwhelmed. All the flurry of excitement seemed to follow the same...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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