Q&A with Patrick Mason: Answers to Sundry Questions
Today we are pleased to feature an interview with Patrick Mason. He is the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies and the Chair of the Religion Department at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of several scholarly books and articles dealing with Mormon...
In Praise of Sadness
There exists in the LDS culture an idea that we are meant to be happy and to have the gospel is to be happy. It is not uncommon to imagine the afterlife as a state of unending happiness. So much of or rhetoric is based on how we are the happiest people on Earth...
Prayer Theory
Every faith tradition has some form of prayer. No matter their concept of deity; God, Allah, ancestors, whomever, each has a way of addressing their object(s) of worship. There is beauty, insight and understanding in the vastly diverse rituals and observances of other...
I. Can. Hold. My. Own. Umbrella.
I’m sure you’ve seen it by now. The Sharing Time lesson for Week 2 in October 2017. The object lesson is to instruct someone (a boy, because obvs) to hold an umbrella while children gather under it. You’re supposed to explain that the umbrella symbolizes the...
Priesthood Power
A few years ago I acquired a 1954 vintage copy of “Priesthood and Church Government,” by John Widtsoe. I devoured it. Despite its flaws, it’s a fascinating book. I could easily sum up the book in one word: patriarchy. I don’t mean that facetiously. I mean that...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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