Translated Correctly: Joseph Smith and the Art of Interpretation
Joseph Smith stood on the line dividing visionary supernaturalism from rational Christianity—one of the many boundaries between the traditional and modern world. –Richard Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling I’ll admit it: I’m a Joseph Smith fangirl. I love the...
An Insider’s View–a personal review
I want to apologize for the negative, critical review I wrote about Grant Palmer’s book, An Insiders View of the Mormon Origins. While I don’t share the authors beliefs on several topics, I believe I was ungenerous in my examination and treatment of his...
What the Hell did Joseph Mean By Translation?
WHAT THE HELL DID JOSEPH MEAN BY TRANSLATION? by Michael Barker This post was provoked by three things: The LDS Church’s recent statement on the Book of Mormon Translation (click here to read the statement). Dan Wotherspoon’s Mormon Matters episode where...
The Starter-Kit of the Restoration
“Unto My Servants, in Their Weakness” The early period of the Restoration saw Joseph Smith and his associates through some remarkable sequences of events. In Joseph’s early encounters with Moroni, he was first told of a book writen on golden plates,1 then told of a...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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