Essential Questions for the Resurrection
When I was on my mission (as all good Mormon stories start), we were teaching a young woman whose mom had just been baptized. We were on the Plan of Salvation and had just finished explaining about the three degrees of glory and how our bodies will be perfect in the...
The Modesty Conundrum
I feel like sometimes we are painting ourselves into a corner with all this modesty stuff. We’re at a point where women's underwear and bathing suit ads are considered pornography by some (because that is apparently where many men's problems with pornography start?...
Chatting with the Young Mormon Feminists blog
CHATTING WITH THE YOUNG MORMON FEMINISTS BLOG Q: Why the blog? A: I felt like fMh was mostly full of women who were at a different place in life than me and many like me, and I felt like it would be helpful to have a space dedicated to younger Mormon feminists. Q:Who...
The Debate: Gay Marriage and the Law
THE DEBATE: GAY MARRIAGE AND THE LAW Note: The following is a unique post. It contains two different essays. The first essay is written by the husband (John Marsh) of one of Rational Faiths' permabloggers and is in support of the recent court ruling in Utah...
An Open Letter to Mormon Women: A Modesty Proposal
An Open Letter to Mormon Women: A Modesty Proposal Dear Mormon Women, you are the greatest. Thank you so much for all you do in the Church. Some of my best friends in the world are women. But I wanted to draw attention to something. My comments might not be...
A Chat with Modern Mormon Men
This is a question and answer post with the founders of the blog, Modern Mormon Men. 1)Why the blog? We were inspired by a Salon.com article about a young, feminist atheist who was obsessed with Mormon mommy blogs (you know the one). We saw a market for a male-focused...
Gay Marriage and Mormonism
My good friend and author Devery Anderson posted a note on his Facebook status about gay marriage. I thought what he wrote was insightful and needed to be published on our blog. I have edited it for formatting and anything marked with a * are my additions. Here is a...
Common Ground-Different Opinions: Latter-day Saints and Contemporary Issues
Common Ground, Different Opinions As the LDS Church grows and continues to spread across the world our “common ground” grows in some measure, but we simultaneously encounter a growing body of “different opinions”. The book “Common Ground, Different Opinions” (CGDO)...
Brother Jake and Religious Freedom
Just in time for the annual conflict for Christmas, here is my latest video. Warning: this one gets political. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgp3Ssvzthc&feature=youtu.be Growing up in rural Arizona, I had a pretty long bus home from elementary school every day....
Optimism vs Cynicism: Which is more untrue?
The classic differentiator between optimism and cynicism is the half glass of water. It takes a neutral fact and adds a judgement that tells us much about the observers life view, half empty or half full. I think it is possible for either view to overstep its bounds,...
Why No Apology for the Priesthood Ban?
Observant Mormons are urged to speak no ill of the Lord’s anointed, which is generally understood to be the leadership of the Church. Elder Dallin H. Oaks expanded on this in the February 1987 Ensign where he taught that Latter-day Saints should not criticize Church...
Joseph Smith and the Resacralization of Marriage
Joseph Smith and the Resacralization of Marriage By Dr. Merina Smith, author of, Revelation, Resistance, and Polygamy: The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle The religious movements that grew out of the Second Great Awakening, Mormonism...
Addressing The Black Elephant In The Room
Note: This essay first appeared on Janan's blog, A Life Diasporatic. Please click on THIS LINK to visit her blog and read her other wonderful essays. Addressing The Black Elephant In The Room In the time since my baptism, there has always been a black elephant in the...
The Family and Children–A Proclamation to the World
The Proclamation on the Family starts to address the church's valid concern about the critical need for strong, intact families in order to provide the love, security and protection that every child deserves and requires in order to survive and thrive. There are many...
In Defense of Russell Stevenson
IN DEFENSE OF RUSSELL STEVENSON by Michael Barker This past Wednesday the radio program Radio West invited Margaret Blair Young (writer and co-producer/director of the documentary, "Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons and co-author of the black Mormon...
Why feminism? Because Jesus.
Why feminism? Because Jesus Is Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of people complain about feminists, and especially about Mormon Feminists. I’ve seen a lot of attitudes that basically boil down to “How on earth do you think you can be a Christian/Mormon and a feminist...
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.
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