IGNORING MY MOTHER
This is an email between my Father and me: Me: “Hey Dad, I have some great news! Jeff and I have decided to get married. We are engaged!” Father: “That’s wonderful news! Your mother and I are so happy for you!” Mother: “Please call me, honey. I’m excited to hear the...
Petitioning Heavenly Mother and the Call to Faithful Agitation
As I was reviewing the 1991 Ensign article “Daughters of God” by Gordon B. Hinckley, then First Counselor in the First Presidency, I began to see a correlation between Hinckley’s prohibition against praying to our Mother in Heaven and the later call...
Heavenly Father
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that all human beings, female and male, are beloved spirit children of heavenly parents, a Heavenly Mother and a Heavenly Father. This understanding is rooted in scriptural and prophetic teachings about the...
Response to “Joseph Smith’s Teachings about Priesthood, Temple, and Women”
Any conversation that opens up space for honest discussion of women within Mormonism is good, and the church’s newest essay “Joseph Smith’s Teachings about Priesthood, Temple, and Women” brings the topic of women and priesthood authority into that space. The gospel...
A Review of: Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism
Religious and theological history has gaps when it comes to women. Edited by Gordon Shepherd, Lavina Fielding Anderson and Gary Shepherd, Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism helps to close that gap. Voices for Equality is a compilation of...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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