No, My 8 Year Old is Not Getting Baptized
My oldest child turns 8 in December. I know what this means for my cultural traditions. He has been getting invited to baptisms all year long as the rest of his primary class moves through this coming-of-age hallmark. But I can’t do it. I can’t allow it....
Apparently 18 Is the New Age of Accountability
Premise: Nothing can stand in the way of Jesus’s saving power. If a physical ordinance is needed to connect a person with this saving power, it must be available to anyone who needs it: which is everyone past the age of accountability. Since the Church will not...
Did You Keep Your Baptismal Covenants this Week?
As my Sunday school teacher said, this is the time when God is sorting the wheat from the tares, when we find out who’s on the Lord’s side, when Christ’s followers step forward. He couldn’t be more right. The Saints’ duty was cut and dried this week the way it rarely...
What He Wants.
Central to the worship and devotion of Mormon Church members is the ordinance of the sacrament in which we explicitly renew the covenant implicitly made at baptism. The covenant is implicit, because we do not verbally agree to specifically stated conditions at 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.
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