A Beginner’s Guide to Rational Faiths
This post was written primarily by Geoff Nelson and Thomas Hatton, with help from other permabloggers. I know you’ve probably seen links to Rational Faiths posted all over the Bloggernaccle. You’ve probably thought- What is this website? Who runs it? What...
Parking in Zion: Don’t forget where you left your car.
At a recent stake conference, I was asked to be a parking attendant. Actually, I wasn’t given a title, I wasn’t even told what to do or how to do it. The assignment came through my High Priest Group Leader, who informed us that Stake Leaders had asked for...
The Old Ladies Who Taught Me the Gospel
I never quite appreciated the older members of the wards I had attended as a child or a teen. I started graduate school a few years ago and we were placed in a student ward with both young single adults and married couples still attending school. The lack of older...
Absurd Moments in Mormon Art: The Second Coming
The Second Coming by Harry Anderson is a beautiful, inspiring depiction of the return of Christ in the Last Days. He is shown in strength and majesty with arms outstretched, and surrounded by concourses of beautiful maiden angels that are triumphantly heralding...
Celestial Hair Contest
1Genesis 1 26: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness… 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Beards and Mormonism have an interesting history. Most prophets...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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