Jesus, The Man
When Jesus was born, he of course was offered 3 gifts by the wise men: frankincense, gold and myrrh; each of these representing an aspect of his life and mission. However it is the offering of and symbolism found in myrrh that is of significance in this particular...
A Letter to Leaders About Mormon Christianity
Dear Friends, Colleagues and Fellow Laborers in Christ, As most of you know, my ministry has had wonderful fellowship with many LDS scholars, teachers and members. We have all benefited greatly from these discussions. It is my sincere belief that a common apologetic...
I Don’t Want to Be On your Team
I wrote a post not that long ago titled Why I Left. You can read it if you want but essentially I put the Church on blast for pretty much everything I think is wrong with it. I meant every word of it. Right away I received more than a few supportive messages which...
Be Mindful of the Atonement
Sometimes you read a book that challenges you to your core and begins to shift your paradigm. The Peace Giver, by James Ferrell has become one of those books for me. I’m on my 2nd time reading it in the course of a week. I’m sure that many people have read it and...
49: Sex, History, and Self Delusion: “New” Podcast Themes
Enjoy a short little minisode folks. We have plans and we'll even tell you what they are. This is also the only podcast with some sort of transcript. You. Are. Welcome. B Dizzle: Hello everyone. Welcome to a mini-sode on the Rational Faiths Podcast. THE BEST PODCAST...
21st Century Family History: Not your grandma’s genealogy
Prelude For ages I felt like there was no point for me to do family history work. My family is about as Mormon as it gets. Sure I can claim 7th generation Mormon status, but the thing is that I don't have anyone in my family tree who wasn't Mormon as long as Mormonism...
Let It Go
It was the song heard round the world. Over and over and over and OVER again. And we're still listening to it. As sick as I sometimes get of hearing it, it also never really gets old. I often find myself singing my Let It Go guts out in the car with my little girls....
American Temples
American Temples by Scott Jarvie is a beautiful tribute to LDS Temples built in the United States. Scott spent more than a year living on the road out of an Airstream, traveling more than 40,000 miles from the west coast to the east and back again five times,...
Spells, Incantations, Ordinances and Covenants
I went to the Temple for the first time when I was nineteen, in preparation for my mission. I had taken a temple prep class but the culture of secrecy didn't serve me well. For instance, until I was seventeen, I thought that I would have to go through the Temple in...
The Liberating Form of Government Intervention
Some Mormons who fall on the right of the political spectrum like to suggest that government intervention does nothing but restrict freedom. They argue that the government should provide national defense and little else on the grounds that anything more will limit...
48: Operation Underground Railroad
Over 25 million people are enslaved around the world, in 2015. Over 10 million people are enslaved for sexual purposes, in 2015. There are about 2 million minors lured and trapped into sexual slavery, in 2015. It would be extremely difficult to find a human being who...
Your Fave is Problematic: How human bias inhibits prophetic leadership
To say that they have experienced it all, that they are not out of touch with our lives when they cannot bring themselves to have a conversation about anything significant outside the U.S. strikes terror in my heart. How can they know what it is like to be racially profiled, to be harassed in the street, to be anything that differs from the predominant view if not a single one of them lives it? How can they claim to be all encompassing when they are victims to the same biases every human being has?
–Azul Uribe worries about the limitations of biased leadership
Confessions of a Misanthropic Misandronist
I have a deep, dark secret that I have lived with for too much of my life. I hate my gender. Maybe I don’t hate to the point I feel born the wrong gender or wish to change or anything. I just have a deep seated loathing of what men are and by extension, what I am. At...
Sacred Spaces: For Men Only
I've been trying to think of how to approach this subject as recent events in the last few years have made women's treatment in the Church a hot-button issue sure to elicit immediate knee-jerk responses of all kinds. Add to that my deeply ingrained cultural upbringing...
Lucifer’s Plan
Do you hate the devil because of his temptations and the evil he works in the world? Or do you hate him because people use him as a tool of fear and control, or as an excuse to not take responsibility for their own moral choices? Or do you simply think he doesn't make...
47: Science!: “EVIL”ution
As I sat in on an institute class with my future wife I remember the instructor passing out colored photocopies of quotes and fun little insights. One of the "insights" was a listing of the elements found in the earth next to a listing of the elements found in the...
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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