Nothing New Under the Sun: A Blunt Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes – Reviewed
Miller has done it again! The brain-crush for many LDS readers, Adam Miller, has given us another paraphrase of scripture he thinks we should be more familiar with. Last year it was Paul’s letter to the Romans and this time around it is Ecclesiastes. This is a...
Mormonism’s transgender confusion
BYU-Idaho is in the news, seeking a religious exemption to Title 9 antidiscrimination laws for a transgender student who appealed to the federal government in a case of discrimination on campus. In the letter to the office of civil right in the US department of...
No Longer Quivering Before the Patriarchy
Imagine having to submit yourself to a form of Christian Patriarchy minus “the Priesthood,” and you have the beginnings of Vyckie Garrison’s story. “I am not really good at submission,” Garrison explained to the Charlotte Atheists and Agnostics group at the Concord...
The Articles of My Faith
In 1842 Joseph Smith wrote a letter to John Wentworth who was the editor of the “Chicago Democrat”, the first newspaper in Chicago. In addition to a condensed history of the Church, Joseph answers Mr. Wentworth’s Question about the beliefs of the Mormons. His answer...
How to Hold a Mormon Mormon Prom
Is it really true that some Mormon kids put on their own prom entirely to shield boys from seeing the upper third of of the bodies of their dates? If that’s actually the case, it’s embarrassingly idiotic, not least because statistically that’s...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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