Let’s Talk About Sex
I think a lot about sex—-although maybe not in the way that some people do. In particular, I think a lot about why people like and don’t like to have sex, what ignites desire and what suffocates it. As a therapist, I meet with people almost daily who are trying...
An E-mail from Dr. Phillip Barlow
AN EMAIL EXCHANGE BETWEEN ME AND DR. PHILLIP BARLOW NOTE: This is a personal email exchange between Dr. Phillip Barlow, the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University, and me. The conversation was spured by a fabulous Mormon...
Reaching the Nations: International LDS Church Growth Almanac, 2014 Edition
Reaching the Nations: International LDS Church Growth Almanac, 2014 Edition by Matthew Martinich I began my serious study and interest in the worldwide growth of the LDS Church and missionary work in 2002. One day I had the thought that I did not know where all of the...
The Dilemma of Post Faith Reconstruction Missionary Work
I grew up giving a greater than normal dedication to my Mormon faith, but after a disheartening experience in the temple on my way home from the mission field, I completely lost faith in God and my religion. Over the next decade and a half I slowly reconstructed it...
Relief Society Lesson Notes: Lorenzo Snow Chapter 22
The following are notes that were taken from my ward’s Relief Society lesson on Chapter 22 in the Lorenzo Snow manual titled Doing Good to Others. I really liked the direction that our teacher took this lesson. It seemed to come more from...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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