God Sees Us: Talking To Youth About Race and the Priesthood
The following essay was written for a group of Laurels and Priests in Highland, Utah. It was created in regards to a discussion about the Priesthood and Temple restrictions set for black Latter-day Saints, racism and how to have a conversation about the restrictions...
BLEACHING MUHAMMAD ALI
Trigger Warning: use of the N-word by Muhammad Ali. My daughters and I, and occasionally my wife, box. We wanted our daughters to know how do defend themselves if the time ever presented itself. So we asked around what kind of martial arts would be...
In The Midst of Madness
I have avoided social media for most of my day. Originally I had written an entire post about the Church’s push for legislation here in Mexico- Enrique Peña Nieto decided to make gay marriage legal in the entire country. The way it currently works here (in Mexico) is...
The Racialization of Prophesy
America long ago fell in love with an image. It is a sacred image, fashioned over centuries of time: this image of the unharried, unconcerned, gladulatory, simple, rhythmical, amoral, dark creature…It was created, and it persists, to provide a personified pressure...
95: When Race, Religion, and Sport Collide – Black Athletes at BYU and Beyond
https://media.blubrry.com/rationalfaiths/content.blubrry.com/rationalfaiths/95RaceReligionSport.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSWhile reading Darron Smith’s excellent work on race and sport two concepts kept coming to my...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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