The Young Women (lessons) are a Changin’
So today I was browsing the ol’ book of Faces, when I saw a link to a Google doc done by Laura Compton comparing the Young Women’s manual from June of 2013 to June of 2014. The lessons are on the priesthood. The changes are pretty fascinating, especially...
SPEAKING CONFIDENTLY OF MOTHERHOOD MEMES
SPEAKING CONFIDENTLY OF MOTHERHOOD MEMES by Gina Colvin NOTE: This post originally appeared yesterday on Gina Colvin’s blog, Kiwi Mormon. Click Here to visit her blog. This week some geniuses from the LDS.org meme department published advice to women about...
Spiritual Indigestion
Spiritual Indigestion by Greg Nelson As a kid, I was uber excited whenever we went to Hometown Buffet, even though it was usually after a funeral or something like that. The freedom to pick and choose whatever I wanted was soul expanding. The first time through the...
Mormon Adults are Treated Like Children and Vice Versa
Mosiah 3:19 “For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the...
Fearing fear itself
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1512 Fear is a very primitive emotion, setting off a chain reaction of events that pumps our blood full of adrenaline, raises our heartbeat, tenses our muscles, expends our energy, and...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
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