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Even in Brokenness There is Beauty

by Jeremy Timothy | Mar 19, 2015 | Agency, Compassion, Disability, Featured, Humanity, Individuality, Mormonism | 3 comments

I work up close and personal with disability every day. When people found I was going into child neurology their first question was often, “why?” I often hear about how it’s too sad or too depressing. Fellow physicians struggle with the fact that there often isn’t...

Thanks and Giving

by Jeremy Timothy | Nov 21, 2013 | Agency, Charity, Disability, Faith, Featured, Gospel Topics, Infertility, Mormonism, Theology | 3 comments

I think every Mormon has had the experience of sitting in the congregation on fast Sunday and being treated to a “thankimony” where the speaker lists their many blessings in a public act of gratitude. I struggle with this. I know we are supposed to be...

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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.

Quote of the Month

"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt." (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

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