Brother Miller and Me
I learned something important the other week. Once again, one of those unexpected lessons. A few weeks ago I wrote a post, Why the Church is Truer Than the Gospel, about me not wanting to attend church on a particular Sunday. Part of the reason for not wanting to...
The Gospel, Truth, Flexibility, and Metronomes
Analogies, parables, allegories, metaphors, similes. All are meaningless without experience. When I hear that Jesus is the “Good Shepherd”, it means nothing if I don’t know what a shepherd is. However, if I am familiar with ovine culture, there are...
Trust in God
I gave this talk in my ward last Sunday. A woman gave a talk after me in which she shared her difficulties accepting all the things church leaders teach. My bishop stood and gave comments afterwards mentioning one of his friends who is a good member and who has never...
Eighteen Years On
This month marks the eighteenth anniversary of my baptism into The Church. For this post, I’ll be looking back at that time period to the ever-popular conversion story that all converts have and get asked about. So, I plan to start at the beginning… I have no...
Multifaceted Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon has long been considered to exhibit a degree of literary homogeneity that evinces its authorship as attributable to only one person. As Alexander Campbell wrote in what is likely the earliest review of the Book of Mormon, published in his...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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