Joseph Smith and the Resacralization of Marriage
Joseph Smith and the Resacralization of Marriage By Dr. Merina Smith, author of, Revelation, Resistance, and Polygamy: The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle The religious movements that grew out of the Second Great Awakening, Mormonism...
A Review of Rock Waterman’s “Why I’m Abandoning Polygamy”
Recently I was asked to respond to a Saturday June 26, 2010 blog post the entitled: “Why I’m Abandoning Polygamy” by Alan Rock Waterman. Having been inundated with anti-Mormon, anti-polygamy, anti-Joseph Smith emails, messages, and blog posts since the...
The Midwife: A Biography of Laurine Ekstrom Kingston – A Book Review
The Midwife: A Biography of Laurine Ekstrom Kingston The Midwife is a biography written about Laurine Ekstrom Kingston’s experiences growing up in a fundamentalist Mormon community as a polygamous wife and working as a midwife across many fundamentalist communities in...
Bushman, Babies, Bath Water
“A Belief and Doubt in Mormonism- Navigating a Faith Crisis” July 6, 2013, Provo City Library Sponsored by the Temple and Observatory Group, a not-for-profit organization. Members are unpaid and there is no church affiliation or funding. Their purpose is...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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