When Someone You Love Loses Someone They Love: Addressing Some LDS Means of Comforting
This week I was talking to one of my good friends about adding to our respective families. She is considering trying for a fourth child. She said one phrase that I, and all people close to me, now know all too well. “There are no guarantees”. I feel like I’ve ruined...
Gospel truths in Les Miserables Part II-Jean
“Les Miserables has had a more profound influence on my life than anything else I have ever read other than the scriptures.” Vaughn J. Featherstone, The Incomparable Christ Our Master and Model, p. 186. This is part II of a II part series. Part I was...
Please bless the food that it will nourish and strengthen our bodies…
How many times have you heard (or used!) that line in a prayer over the food? (I know there a few variations, but that one is a classic.) Have you ever really thought about it? I find it quite humorous, especially when it’s used at a church function where the food...
A Review of Rock Waterman’s “Why I’m Abandoning Polygamy”
Recently I was asked to respond to a Saturday June 26, 2010 blog post the entitled: “Why I’m Abandoning Polygamy” by Alan Rock Waterman. Having been inundated with anti-Mormon, anti-polygamy, anti-Joseph Smith emails, messages, and blog posts since the...
The Truth of Untrue Storytelling in Mormonism
By Konden R. Smith “But it didn’t happen that way! Why is the Church lying to me?” A common point of frustration many Mormons have found concerns the inconsistencies and contradictions between the official stories being told and the actual history behind those...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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