Christmas Chaos
Between the fall equinox and the winter solstice there is a period of grand capitalism called “The Christmas Season”. You may have also heard it referred to as “The Holiday Season” which is accurate since it may include such holidays as Halloween, Ramidan, Chanukah,...
My Jesus
I don’t know what I think about Jesus, sometimes. I’m clearly a believer–a believer in his life, in the resurrection, in the atonement, in salvation and exaltation, in his hard moral teachings. But sometimes the ways I believe in these things seem so...
The Miracle of Christmas through My Son’s Eyes
It began with my nativity set, given to me a few pieces at a time by my mother-in-law. The reason for that gift goes back to my childhood. Our Christmas Eve tradition centered around a ceramic nativity set. While my father read the story from the New Testament, my...
One in Us
John 17: 21 “That they all may be one; as thou, Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.” Unity in Christ is essential to the Gospel message. However, Christian unity as it is understood in...
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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