A Search for Book of Mormon Heroines
For some people, reading the scriptures is an act of faith. For others, it’s an act of obedience. For me, it’s an act of creation. Let me explain. Last year around this time, Jeanette Atwood and I released iPlates: Volume I, a comic book based on stories from the Book...
Mormon War
Recently I have been affected deeply by shows and movies that have opened my eyes to the ugliness of war. Shows like Band of Brothers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, and, most recently, The Hurt Locker have left me speechless – speechless...
“For the Body is Not One Member, But Many” – 1 Corinthians 1:14
When I was the young men’s secretary, I approached my previous two young men’s presidents and bishop as well as my current bishop about approaching some of the more “sticky” historical issues regarding our LDS past. My previous bishop seemed...
The Development of Alma’s Faith
Introduction This piece uses Heather Hardy’s Fall 2011 Dialogue article entitled “Alma’s Experiment in Faith: A Broader Context” as a springboard to even more broadly explore the faith journey of Alma, son of Alma, as recorded in the Book of Mormon. Alma is one of 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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