Wandering in the Wilderness
It has now been 9 years since I first listened to the Mormon Stories podcast with Darius Gray and Margaret Young on blacks and the priesthood and temple ban. In it they put the priesthood ban into context of the surrounding culture. I learned that in the beginning,...
Converts and Pioneers
I study stories. Particularly, I study the ways people tell stories in order to make sense of who they are and where they fit in this world. The stories we tell ourselves and others are powerful forces in our lives, and I love digging into exactly how people do it....
The Book of Mormon Helped me Love my Black Heritage
During a time of personal change and unsettling experiences in my life, I came across the Book of Mormon. It converted me to Christ and safely guided my mind towards higher thoughts. One of those thoughts was that I can have my new faith and membership in The Church...
Open Policy, Closed Culture
Several weeks back, we received an announcement in the mail. One of Luv’s cousins would soon be getting married. “She looks East Indian,” I noted as I looked at photo of the cousin and his new fiancé, “Maya.” Not only did she bear what...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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