by James Patterson | May 31, 2017 | Featured |
Back in 2014, Open Stories CEO John Dehlin was asked to comment on the Church’s new series of essays that were designed to answer questions surrounding issues like Church history, race and the priesthood, polygamy, women and the priesthood and more. In an essay, John...
by James Patterson | May 23, 2017 | Featured, Mormonism |
One of John Dehlin’s signature lines on Mormon Stories is that “sunshine is the greatest antiseptic.” Perhaps that’s why there’s so much interest surrounding issues relating to the Open Stories Foundation, such as compensation, transparency, allegations of sexism and...
by Blaire Ostler | Oct 21, 2016 | Disagreement, Featured, Feminism, Marriage, Mormonism, Plural Marriage, Polygamy |
I am a Mormon feminist and I support polygamy. Before you get out your torches and pitchforks, hear me out. We may have more in common than you think. While I don’t recoil at having another spouse or my husband having another spouse, I do recoil at mandated polygamy...
by Janan Graham-Russell | Aug 3, 2016 | Faith, Featured, Racism, Why I Am Mormon, Youth |
The following essay was written for a group of Laurels and Priests in Highland, Utah. It was created in regards to a discussion about the Priesthood and Temple restrictions set for black Latter-day Saints, racism and how to have a conversation about the restrictions...
by Jared Mooney | Jul 7, 2016 | Church History, Corporate Church, decisions, Disagreement, Faith Crisis, faith crisis, Featured, Individuality, Mormonism, spirituality |
Those who have followed my posts here might know that I have had the benefit of a long and slow faith crisis… spread out over 20 years, since the beginning of High School to my recent decision to stop participating in the church for the foreseeable future....
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