An Email from Greg Prince
Note: A few weeks ago I was asked to teach a lesson to the 14-15 year old youth Sunday School class about the Great Apostasy. I reached out to Dr. Greg Prince for advice on how to approach this subject. His response was so helpful, I thought it would be worth being...
Brethren and Cistern
Mother’s Day is coming. I’ve heard it called Mothering Day and I like that better. We each experience mothering differently. Some of us don’t have children, yet we mother. Some raise children born to other mothers. Some of us are motherless children...
Deus ex machina
It always seems that whenever I set out to write about something specific it changes and I feel inspired to go in another direction. This post will be no different. For those not familiar with the concept of Deus ex machina, it is a plot device wherein everything...
The Expansiveness of the Atonement
Note: This is a talk given in my Sacrament Meeting about two weeks ago by my friend Sam Tomlinson. Sam is a young man I used to teach when he was in Priest Quorum and we used to be hometeaching companions. I hope you enjoy his talk as much as I did. – Mike...
Our Lives as Torah
This term I began studying Biblical Hebrew. Languages do not come easily to me. I devised a plan to motivate my study- rekindle my love of Judaism. I have been amazed by how much my heart sang within the richness of Jewish thought and the scriptural and life...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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