No Soup for You! Why Women Can’t Have the Priesthood
In the last General Conference, Elder Oaks gave a talk about the priesthood. During the priesthood session. To a group of men. Since then, many members of the church have claimed that his talk holds the answers to why women can’t have the priesthood. Now, whether or...
Essential Church Mods
“Being a member of the Church can be a lot like being in a MMORPG video game…[so] I’ve provided the top essential Church mods to make your playing/living experience more enjoyable.”
Laurel Sandberg-Armstrong lists the most essential Mormon mods you’ll need to have the ultimate Church experience.
How Continuing Revelation Prevents Change in Mormonism
Continuing revelation is the foundation of Mormonism. It is one of the great differences between Mormonism and fundamentalist, “Bible-based” Christian churches. One might assume that having a belief in leaders who receive new revelation from God would push us into the...
Laws of the Bloggernacle
I'm a pretty big fan of these interwebs. I'm not going to hide it. And it's got a pretty amazing collection of "rules," including some of real gems: Godwins famous law (states that the longer an internet discussion lasts, the more likely it is that someone will...
Rock Waterman’s Pants Are On Fire
Actually, his pants aren't on fire; he just didn't know the full story. President Dieter Uchtdorf recently spoke to the Church History Symposium. He said something that is vital for us to remember as we discover troubling aspects of our history: ...a little more...
Strange Bedfellows: Marriages and Sealings
All of my life I grew up hearing about how sacred and special it was to be married in the temple. That was what you work toward, spiritually, your whole life. We sing songs about going to the temple from the time that we start talking. Getting married in the temple is...
Heavenly Mother Walks With Me
“In those times when I need a woman’s companionship, there is One who understands me in the most intimate of ways; she understands and knows me better than I understand and know myself. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that my Heavenly Mother walks with me, by my side, with her arm around me, whispering “My daughter, I love you forever and with no condition attached”.” Esther Dale writes about feeling the presence of Heavenly Mother in the midst of a miscarriage.
Can you see what I’m saying?
“…When an artist creates a work of art, she may have an idea that she wants to convey, but there is no guarantee that a viewer will receive it. The beautiful thing about this, is that the viewer may receive a personal insight that never even occurred to the artist. I hope this will be the case for you as I talk about my process…” Daniel Lewis wants to know how do you understand your faith?
Reason to Believe
When I was taking Wilfred Griggs and Alan Keele's history of civilization class (The Pen and the Sword, for anyone else who might have taken it), I thought about the idea of formal arguments to prove the existence of God for the first time in my life. I tried, for a...
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14: “Seek ye out of the best [podcasts]”: Parenting 101
"How the hell do we do this?!" is a question I am often faced with (in my head of course) when I come to conflicting advice around parenting. A lot of wisdom is thrown around and it is hard to tell what really works and what very well may damage our children, which is...
Go Ahead, Break Your Covenants
About a month ago I sat in Gospel Doctrine class listening to the popular Bible story about Samson - you know, the strong dude with the long hair. The teacher posed the following question: "From where did Samson get his strength?" Of course there was the usual silence...
Science for the soul
We live in a culture that has defined a war between the two worlds I live in, science and religion. Each has been pitted against the other in a no holds barred contest for supremacy in the elusive search for truth. On one side is the Godless heathen intellectuals and...
Tiamat and the Atonement
Tiamat and the Atonement One of the oldest creation myths is that of the Enuma Elish, in which the Babylonian God, Marduk, fights the sea serpent, Tiamat (this type of divine battle is called a theomacy). In this story, Tiamat represents chaos. The god, Marduk,...
Jeremy Runnells – the New Expert on Joseph Smith’s Polygamy?
Jeremy Runnells—the New Expert on Joseph Smith’s Polygamy? By Brian C. Hales Recently Jeremy T. Runnells has rebooted his 2013 “Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Testimony,” by posting a response, “Debunking FAIR’s Debunking,” on his website. The section on...
Of Sustaining, Dissent, and Missing Paradigms
Guest Post- Matt Stearmer One of the most difficult tasks any believing individual will face is how to navigate the murky waters of faith and change at the exact same time. In the LDS church, how do we advocate for change while remaining faithful? I have turned...
Replacing Certainty with Pluralism through Gospel Topics Articles
With the release of the latest Gospel Topics article "Translation and Historicity of the book of Abraham" I have come to realize that the Church is making room for those with various beliefs about what our scriptures are. I see this as a tremendous step forward for...
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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