You do not belong here – a high councilor’s talk about inclusion
On Sunday our high councilor spoke during Sacrament Meeting. It was an excellent talk that I feel should be shared with as many people as possible. Personal information has been removed, but otherwise the talk is here as it was given. Italicized emphases in the text...
Reflections on Faith and Freetown
“Is Faith Supposed to be this Exhausting?” Bro Abubakar asks. It’s one of many favorite quotes I took away from the movie Freetown. I remember when I first saw a promotional video for Freetown. I was leaving the movie “Selma” in January. I had...
Wandering and Choosing
I lost my best friend in Mexico. My best friend who makes a yearly pilgrimage to visit in my exile landed in a plane four hours away from me and I had no way to get a hold of her. Her American cellphone would not work in Mexican soil, and I was a mess. I called the...
The Hitchhikers Guide to Eternity (for and in behalf of Douglas Adams, who is dead)
Adams was an atheist. I don’t know if he still is. In the book “The Salmon of Doubt”, published after his death, he advises: “If you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘this is an interesting world I find myself in- an...
Even in Brokenness There is Beauty
I work up close and personal with disability every day. When people found I was going into child neurology their first question was often, “why?” I often hear about how it’s too sad or too depressing. Fellow physicians struggle with the fact that there often isn’t...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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