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I could do it. I could choose to believe.
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I envision a Church that publicly recognizes that, like its own history, healthy gender roles and healthy sexuality are also not as simple as the Church has taught.
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Skirtism doesn’t imply that there exists no universal Mormonism — for all we know, One True Mormonism is floating out there in the noumenal — it only requires us to...
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Utah is a state where, if you’re poor, your neighbors will bake you cookies, and then cheerfully go the ballot box and vote to take away any hope of your...
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We’ve all heard of stories where the husband is asked whether or not the wife could hold a calling or would be interested in doing xyz.
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We want to hear your personal stories about why there is less than a perfect fit between your spiritual needs and what the church offers.
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Instead of spinning narratives that minimize our old beliefs, make us feel superior, and make nodding rubes out of the orthodox, we should admit that we aren’t — and weren’t...
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Mormonism isn’t going anywhere, and it’s not going to stop being a conservative institution. But Brooks and other liberal Mormons aren’t enabling Mormonism’s reactionary side.
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You might deride liberal Mormons for their heterodoxy, but they are doing your job for you. They have translated Mormonism into a language that is intelligible to the larger public,...
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Now I was laughing, giddy with freedom. “I don’t know if You’re there! I don’t know what any of this means!” The more I said it, the...
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More valuable than being obedient was the reminder that I have a personal connection to the Divine, and while a third party’s interpretation may be useful, it is not necessary....
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And it all comes down to one thing: experiencing a sense of Connection. Connection with God. Connection with other people. Connection with the natural world.
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It goes on and on, this tapestry we weave with the Divine that moves in and out, going from the seen to the unseen, letting us know that behind it...
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I realized that I’d always had it backwards. Spirituality didn’t come from holding the power of God inside your body like a form of light. It didn’t come from knowing...
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Because Salt Lake City is the capital of Utah, it’s important that it is ‘dressed appropriately.’
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I only know that I wasn’t strong enough to let the lamplight keep glowing, tiny as it was. I snuffed it out.
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I got into gear. This was the main event. We took out our scriptures and flipchart. We only had about 25 minutes left, so we skipped right...
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All those in favor of building a new sports stadium, please bring $100 cash and come down this Saturday and Sunday to help pour concrete. . .
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But in that moment, I acknowledge the reality that it’s nearly impossible for me to go back, for my faith to be sufficient, for me to KNOW that there is...
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The real test of love is not if we can love and appreciate people who agree with us…but if we can honor and respect people who don’t.
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Groups like Evergreen International only practice science when it’s convenient. Like my grandma, when presented with contradictory evidence, they simply turn off the TV, insisting that their answer is...
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Aah, yes, the “don’t sweat the small stuff” argument. It’s as familiar as Wonder bread in a sacrament tray.
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If we approach the question of sex from the perspective that it is our responsibility as parents to teach our kids how TO HAVE sex, how does that change things?
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Harvard Business School has its issues, as does any organization. But I believe that its values of openness, tentativeness, intellectual honesty, democratic knowledge, and informed dissent are indeed worthy...
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We get to grapple with our own spiritual ineptness, sling it over our shoulders, cart it home, and store it under our beds.
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I have remarked more than once that Mormons are often able to juggle contradictory ideas without, apparently, even being aware of the internal tensions. . . .
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CLEANFLIX raises provocative questions about censorship and consumer rights as well as Mormon approaches to art and sex. . . .
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As parents, what do we value more from our four-year-olds? A paint-by-the-numbers portrait identical to what’s on the box, or a free-spirited “look, Mom, this is you and Dad...
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I pick it up, open it, and read this sentence on page 3: “We know that gender was set in the premortal world.”
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1) Why is it so hard, when it comes to women, for Mormons to understand that being valuable is not the same as being equal?, 2) If King Benjamin were...
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It’s a “Look Ma, No Hands!” approach to issue management. We want to say, “look, we aren’t racists, and we have no idea why that racist policy was enforced for...
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The “nicer” men are about the patriarchal structure of the church, the more likely it is to be perpetuated. The best way for men to promote change in this context...
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I have brought my daughter, dressed up and nervous with anticipation, gift in hand, to a birthday party where the boys will decide what games to play and what the...
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I recently re-read Carol Lynn Pearson’s amazing No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons around Our Gay Loved Ones for the second time because a woman in my very-Mormon book club...
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So here it is. The one inmutable law of organizations. As long as #4 is greater than #2, the organization will grow (and continue to amass resources).
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By day, I fancy myself a qualitative researcher. That means that people’s stories matter to me—significantly more than their answers to Likert scale questions. I’ll read a qualitative research study...
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Posted with the kind permission of The Sunstone Foundation, the publisher, and Calvin Grondahl
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As a kid I read a lot of comic books. I enjoyed studying the intricate character storylines consisting of their origin stories, their many adventures and their overlapping histories with other...
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Polygamy is a system in which MEN “progress” and “expand their stewardship” by increasing their patriarchal reach. They do it by collecting women like Jay Leno collects classic cars.
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The last time this was laid out for me in a sunday school lesson I decided to diagram how it actually works. I’ve tried to be as accurate as...
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Based on an informal poll of cheap seaters, these are the 10 BEST talks ever.
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“But PLEASE, for the love of God, don’t tell us that God hasn’t forgotten us. We’re not that small. Or stupid.”
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Today on our local NPR affiliate, a local Stake Presidency member was interviewed about the roll-out of the “I’m a Mormon” PR campaign in our metro area.
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This is a guest post I wrote nearly a year ago. . . DHO is still running around arguing that the proper practice of our religion requires us to work...
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Based on an informal poll of cheap seaters, these are the worst conference talks, GA talks, and other official pronouncements in the last forty years.
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Faith doesn’t affect anything. It doesn’t cause anything. Faith is a commitment to see the world in a particular way. It’s about choosing to look through the kaleidoscope.
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It’s about the process, not the outcome. Painting by the numbers, regardless of how carefully, isn’t the same as painting our own picture—and learning to paint on our own, I...
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As I was telling my Kindergartner earlier this month that we’re all pioneers in some way. Whenever we stand up for what we believe in or do something because we...
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Guest Post: by Ian — An Early Review of The Book of Mormon Musical. This past Monday I had quite the Family Home Evening—I saw a preview performance of the...
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… he’d probably write for The Salt Lake Tribune (and work in community radio): The case for Book of Mormon socialism Though redistribution is the highest economic order in Mormon...
