The Great Divide: Why critical evaluation of church leader statements can make you more compassionate and closer to God
The Great Divide Why critical evaluation of church leader statements can make you more compassionate and closer to God Hello, my name is Carson and I criticize church leaders… In my experience there is no other subject that will divide modern members of the LDS...
Balancing the Scales of Obedience and Free Thought: A Reminder and a Call
This is a call to balance the scales of obedience and free thought in our religious community. Recently, I listened to an intelligent discussion on the Mormon Matters podcast on the topic of Wrestling with Prophets and Scripture. I highly recommend the podcast in that...
Mormon Adults are Treated Like Children and Vice Versa
Mosiah 3:19 “For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the...
Rewriting Mormon History
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” –Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Mormonism is sometimes faced with instances where words uttered by one Church leader come into conflict with words uttered by a subsequent Church...
MORMONAD: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT
MORMONAD: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT by Milayna Barker – age 12 Note: Soon after joining Young Women’s we were told that we were going to be making a video version of the Mormonads with the young men in our ward. I didn’t know what those were and so I...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.
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