Common Ground-Different Opinions: Latter-day Saints and Contemporary Issues
Common Ground, Different Opinions As the LDS Church grows and continues to spread across the world our “common ground” grows in some measure, but we simultaneously encounter a growing body of “different opinions”. The book “Common Ground, Different Opinions” (CGDO)...
Addressing The Black Elephant In The Room
Note: This essay first appeared on Janan’s blog, A Life Diasporatic. Please click on THIS LINK to visit her blog and read her other wonderful essays. Addressing The Black Elephant In The Room In the time since my baptism, there has always been a black elephant...
The Family and Children–A Proclamation to the World
The Proclamation on the Family starts to address the church’s valid concern about the critical need for strong, intact families in order to provide the love, security and protection that every child deserves and requires in order to survive and thrive. There are...
In Defense of Russell Stevenson
IN DEFENSE OF RUSSELL STEVENSON by Michael Barker This past Wednesday the radio program Radio West invited Margaret Blair Young (writer and co-producer/director of the documentary, “Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons and co-author of the black...
OUTreach News: Three events this week, hope to see you!
By Shan Sullivan This past summer, when I became the owner and managing director of Exploring Sainthood, I decided that above all else, my primary mission was to facilitate a spirit of service as the bedrock of this project and community. I believe that as we truly...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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