Return or Renewal
By now, Facebook loiterers and magazine subscribers will have all read the LDSLiving article on Thomas Wirthlin McConkie’s journey back to the church. Writer Katie Lambert draws from McConkie’s May 22 interview with KUER’s Radiowest to describe McConkie’s...
Hyphenated Faith 1: Mormon-Buddhists
As a people, Mormons aren’t particularly concerned with being like everyone else. Our history is one of actively seeking “set-apart” status–sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Maintaining a trench between ourselves and the...
“M&Ms”: Meditating Mormons
M&M stands for “Meditating Mormons.” A fellow conference attendee dubbed me with the witty honor at an educational retreat at Smith College in northern Massachusetts. We were participating in a session to analyze all the different facets of our identity and...
What Is Sin–A Perspective Influenced by the East.
There is some mystery about Jesus’ life before he started his ministry. Some believe that he went east in those years and encountered Buddhism. Frankly, this makes sense because it is very easy to re-interpret much of what Jesus taught and did from a Buddhist...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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