Testimony
Testimony by Peter van der Walt I was raised Calvinist in a middle-class family in South Africa during Apartheid. At a young age, I rejected the teachings of my church and lost faith in the deity it represented. I spent my youth exposing myself to a variety of...
On the Important Work in the Oakland Stake Toward Better Understanding and Loving Our Gay Brothers and Sisters
On the Important Work in the Oakland Stake Toward Better Understanding and Loving The following was compiled by Carol Lynn Pearson, Walnut Creek, California. She has given us permission to re-post it here at rationalfaiths.com The original post can be found at:...
A little less than a miracle, a lot less forgiving
I was asked to write today on the admirable open letter at nomorestrangers.org requesting the removal of The Miracle of Forgiveness from Church-owned store shelves in addition to asking the members themselves to no longer turn to it for counsel or use it to counsel...
Defending Proposition 8—It’s time to admit the reasons
Note: This first appeared as an editorial on September 7, 2010 in BYU’s The Daily Universe. It was taken off the website the same day it was printed, in the early afternoon. Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the recent United States District Court case that overturned...
Gay Mormon For Marriage Equality
After taking another survey about being openly Gay and actively Mormon I felt the need to write a post for the RationalFaiths.com blog about what that means, how it happened and the reaction of various congregations I have come out to. Perhaps you are reading this...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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