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September 2013

September 09, 2013

Blood and Horror on this Earth

Thousands and thousands of Mormons all over the world attend temple services on a daily...

July 2013

July 28, 2013

The Future of the Church IS the ‘International’ Church

It’s a beautiful Winter’s day in Christchurch today. Clear blue skies, cool temperatures in the...

May 2013

May 05, 2013

The Sacred Mormon Schvantz

I've been thoughtful recently about the cultural privileges that my husband has as a Mormon...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

Today church made me sad

I woke up this morning with a sigh. I don’t every morning. But today I...

March 02, 2013

The New Introduction to Official Declaration Two: It’s just not that satisfying…

I once belonged to a ward where the personality of said ward was defined by...

January 2013

January 14, 2013

LDS Church HQ announces its Relocation to New Zealand! (Well, not really but…..)

After a one month summer hiatus its time to hit the New Year with more...

December 2012

December 16, 2012

On Pants & Shootings: How will it end?

Last week one of my readers invited me to participate in the ‘Wear Pants to...

December 01, 2012

How Southpark changed Mormonism

A couple of weeks ago Joanna Brooks (via Skype) and I gave a public lecture...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

The New Zealand Marriage (Definition of marriage) Amendment Bill: A private comment on a public submission

On the 29th August 2012 the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill passed its first...

October 08, 2012

Embodying the Mormon Cultural Turn: A personal reflection

I’ve only been blogging since the beginning of the year but in that time I’ve...

September 2012

September 20, 2012

Should Romney repent? ‘Yes!’, says the prophet Mormon

I had determined that I had said all that I was going to say about...

August 2012

August 24, 2012

Romney’s tithing and the case of the Mormon Blue Blood

Seriously? So Romney doesn’t want to disclose his financial returns because he feels that the...

August 21, 2012

Talking Kiwi Mormonism with TV3

In anticipation of a television interview I gave for TV3's "The Nation" (airing this weekend), I prepared...

August 07, 2012

Unlatching from the Amerimormon cultural teat

As I gaze on with admiration as my friend Joanna Brookes becomes Mormonism’s media darling...

May 2012

May 23, 2012

A Kiwi-Mormon comment on the US-Mormon election

So its election year in the US. It’s the year that we get to trust...

May 12, 2012

Mormon Excommunication – Why it needs an Ecumenical Council

The three words, “Write a blog” have appeared in my diary consistently over the last...

April 2012

April 11, 2012

On coming home to my Mormon husband

In recent times I’ve usually been able to head overseas for work/research at least twice...

April 01, 2012

Why Jesus wants Mormon women to play rugby

I'm just a New Zealander. I'm a South Seas outlier looking on at my big...

March 2012

March 21, 2012

The Church of what?

In October 2010, in a fit of pique with our increasingly banal church publications, I...

March 16, 2012

Keeping Mormonism really nice- for all?

To the outside world Mormons can look a bit like Grenda’s shiny happy company employees. ...

March 11, 2012

The kind of Mormon I want my children to be

I love LDS teens and young adults. These days, around here at least, they seem...

February 2012

February 09, 2012

Why Mormons Leave the Church: A Comment from the Antipodes

John Dehlin (of Mormon Stories Podcast fame) has recently published the first batch of results...

February 06, 2012

Callings and Revelation: What happens when things go bad?

Prayer for Mormons is an important ritual and symbol of our faith, and alongside...

January 2012

January 23, 2012

Horses, Church Leadership, Boundary changes and Christ

I've been doing some training in natural horsemanship. Its a gentle and more intuitive method...

January 21, 2012

To question or not to question ‘The Church’?

A couple of years ago I was in a temple recommend interview with a member...

January 19, 2012

The Culture of the Brass

Some years ago while H1 was a serving as a bishop we attended a very...