How to Start Helping
In the last few days, I’ve seen a huge surge in members of the Church wanting to reach out to refugees in any way they can. I’m thrilled about this, as I’ve been following the middle-eastern refugee crisis since last year, and I would love some...
Tzadikim
There is a belief within mystical forms of Judaism that there are 36 righteous people whose existence saves the world. Without these people – who remain unrecognized as they go about their goodness – the evil of the world would become so overwhelming that...
Reaching out to the Tortured Soul
Depression and suicide have made their rounds in the Mormon blogosphere of late, particularly in regard to the issue of homosexuality in Mormonism. For me, this is a subject that hits home because, you see, I suffer from depression. It’s taken me a while to...
Toward a More Radical Christianity
There’s nothing more frustrating to a corporation than to spend millions of dollars creating, establishing and communicating a brand, only to see it get sucked up by the market and reduced to a mere descriptive word. You’ve heard about companies like Xerox, who saw...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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