In which my son almost dies and my world-view actually does.
I have four kids, all of them boys except for three.The youngest is Jones who is ten. Eight years ago, he drowned. July 6th, 2006, 11:20 a.m. We were visiting family in washington State and amid the cousins and uncles, breakfast and chatty aunts, Jones and his cousin...
18: Faith Transitions Part 1
https://media.blubrry.com/rationalfaiths/content.blubrry.com/rationalfaiths/faithtransitions1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSFaith is hard and sometimes it fails us or we fail it, I’m not sure which. Stories of undergoing...
When the Levee Breaks
When aspects of the gospel don’t quite sit right or don’t fit into the church’s prescribed sphere of faith-promoting answers, it is a common practice in Mormonism to distance one’s self from such issues if they can’t be resolved. This is...
_Never Let Me Go_ by Kazuo Ishiguro: An Analogy for How I Feel at Church
Never Let Me Go is a novel that follows the life of a group of kids in a boarding school. It’s a weird school. They don’t learn stuff. They mostly just play around and do artwork. You eventually learn that these kids are actually clones, and they were created so...
You Can’t Handle the Truth!
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long had three missions: Perfecting the Saints, Proclaiming the Gospel, Redeeming the Dead. A fourth was recently added: Caring for the Poor and Needy. But all along, the LDS Church has had a fifth...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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