“The Greatest Mormon Feminist Love Affair That Ever Existed”
“For those friends I say thank you. I love you. My life has been blessed because of our friendship.”
Baby Blessings, Feminism, and Worldviews
Baby Blessings The baby blessings we do in the LDS Church are a wonderful ritual, in my opinion. I've pondered what kinds of things I might say when blessing my own little one ever since I first thought about becoming a father. As I've become increasingly feminist...
Quetzalcoatl, White Gods and The Book of Mormon Part I: Skin Color
“Quetzalcoatl became Caucasian because the Spanish fathers recording the tales couldn’t conceive of the association with a direction and assumed that the description must have depicted skin color. It was part of a transformation of native legend that they made into a prediction that the Spanish would come and rule.”
The Day Breaketh
nlike the brother of Jared, we are more often than not required to operate based on stirrings of the veil, rather than rents and tears in the fabric of space and time through which divine parts pass.
Lesson 1: Introduction and Doctrine and Covenants Section 1
The following is from a December 1984 Ensign article. For the original article, click here. Robert Woodford is now one of the editors of the Joseph Smith Papers. Here are some other helpful links: Jared Anderson's podcast and notes that reviews this lesson Thanks...
New Years Resolutions for the LDS Church – Top Twenty Something Changes
I’ve compiled a list of New Year’s resolutions for our Church! And just like me getting in better shape, these resolutions probably won't happen; but we can hope, right? I know I’ll probably get some a lot of criticism for creating this post, but I guess I take the...
Top 20, I Mean, 97 Positive Remarks about Pants, Pants Revolution
I was called out by one of the regular readers of our blog the other day for focusing on the negative comments that came with the Pantspocolypse. So, I decided to scan the internet looking for positive remarks that came from Pants-Sunday.
Book of Mormon Lesson 48: Moroni 7, 8, 10
"Come Unto Christ" To access Jared Anderson's podcast and lesson notes that go over this lesson, click here. I have some brief thoughts I would like to share. I don't think I have ever in my life studied the Book of Mormon in such depth as I have this year. As...
The District – Episode 3
The District Number One Click here to watch episode 3 of The District Click here to listen to the Mormon Expositor podcast's review of this episode. This episode seemed somehow shorter than the others. Or maybe it just didn't push any buttons for me? We learn a...
The Top 27 of the Best of the Worst Comments Regarding Pantsapalooza
The list is in no type of hierarchical order. They all are just super horrible. The misspellings were maintained from the original postings. Props to my good friend Garrett Hall who provided me with nearly all of these quotes: "As a Melchizedek priesthood...
The Hero’s Journey of the Gay and Lesbian Mormon, by Carol Lynn Pearson: A Book Review
The first time I read "The Hero's Journey of the Gay and Lesbian Mormon" by Carol Lynn Pearson, I was sitting in the chapel of my ward building, waiting for a meeting to start. I'd been in somewhat of a bad mood for most of the day and I started reading it to avoid...
Book of Mormon Lesson 47: Moroni 1-6
"To Keep Them in the Right Way" THE BOOK OF MORONI A Few More Things: Moroni 1:1-4 Click here to listen to Jared Anderson's podcast that reviews this lesson and to review his notes "...of the twenty-seven Book of Mormon chapters attributed to Moroni, twenty-one are...
Mourning With Those Who Mourn
Let’s begin this post with a confession, because who can resist those?! This is my second attempt at writing this post. In the first version, I tried to write about this topic with a little distance, but that made it too dry and preachy. Bleh, who wants to read...
Pants On Fire
Oh, but the Mormon world has exploded this past week. What began as a fairly simple movement has turned into some shocking drama. I know all people are prone to over reactions, but I feel like as Mormons we excel at this. I think it’s a part of our mythology. ...
Why I Wore Pants on Sunday: OFF WITH THE PANTS!!!!
As many of you may know, Sunday, December 14th was deemed "Wear Pants Sunday" by a group of Mormon Feminists. It began as an invitation for women to wear pants, and men to wear purple, in support of gender equality within the church. It was not meant as a protest or...
Book of Mormon Lesson 46: Ether 7-15
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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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