Toward a More Radical Christianity
There’s nothing more frustrating to a corporation than to spend millions of dollars creating, establishing and communicating a brand, only to see it get sucked up by the market and reduced to a mere descriptive word. You’ve heard about companies like Xerox, who saw...
A Prayer
Dear Lord and God above, My heart is groaning for the world even at it groans now in sin. More and more we are becoming a world divided. I pray that we can remember that which you taught us. At this time, as violence comes upon our shores, with those gunned down in...
And Ye Took Me In
Recently I came across a video on Facebook that showed refugees landing on the Grecian shore. There has been a lot of debate about whether or not to help these people in need. I’ve always been firmly on the side of helping them but watching this video snapped...
Thanksgiving therapy with the Mormon Family…
If the Mormon family came to me for therapy this week, it would be Molly, 5 adult children, and Peter, her husband, coming to talk about Thanksgiving dinner next week. Me: Hey, Molly…. Peter, it’s good to see you again. Sounds like things have changed a bit. You’ve...
Petitioning Heavenly Mother and the Call to Faithful Agitation
As I was reviewing the 1991 Ensign article “Daughters of God” by Gordon B. Hinckley, then First Counselor in the First Presidency, I began to see a correlation between Hinckley’s prohibition against praying to our Mother in Heaven and the later call...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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