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December 2019

December 23, 2019

Hoarding the Sacrifices of Ordinary People: A Question of Ethics

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West....

December 20, 2018

An Open Letter to the Christchurch Stake on the Day of My Church Discipline

Dear Sisters and Brothers of Christchurch Stake, I recall several years ago talking with a...

December 09, 2018

When the LDS Church Disciplines a Woman

Whatever you may think about the soteriology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

September 2018

September 17, 2018

When Church Leaders are More Important than Church Children

“Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified...

March 2018

March 28, 2018

The First Presidency Letter on Clergy Sexual Abuse That Never Came

27 March, 2018 Dear Sisters, Children, and Brothers of the Church, In light of the recent...

January 2018

January 17, 2018

Dear First Presidency: We are not your flavours

Dear First Presidency, I refer you to just one of the many conclusions...

December 2017

December 16, 2017

Cheating LDS Young Women – Again

When I was a Laurels' class president I was invited to a conversation with the...

November 2017

November 20, 2017

Not Enough

When Nathan and I first married I discovered, somewhat to my dismay, that this charismatic and...

November 15, 2017

Finding a Priestly Response to Faith Crisis

Utah! No other place outside of New Zealand feels more like home. A lot of...

March 2017

March 18, 2017

Me and The Book of Mormon: It’s Complicated

My mother insisted I read The Book of Mormon before my baptism. It was a...

December 2016

December 26, 2016

On the Sin of Weaponizing Testimonies

I've been asked on several occasions to bear my testimony. On one occasion I...

October 2016

October 26, 2016

Hurray! It may or may not be fine if you are Mormon and Gay!

The re-vamped Mormon and Gay website went live today. If I had discovered the website as...

October 22, 2016

The Spiritual Dilemma of the LDS Church’s Overblown Wealth

I've tried and tried over the years to figure out why the LDS church needs...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Holding on to those in Faith Crisis: A Sacrament Talk

Guest Post by Nathan McCluskey. What follows is an extract from a 15 minute...

August 18, 2016

Moral Judgement and the Problem of Protecting the Church’s ‘Good Name’

Sadly, the church is the religious home of both victims and perpetrators of crimes and...

August 10, 2016

Our Divided Community: American Mormonism, New Zealand Mormonism and the Question of War

The Book of Mormon is full of war. However, how this is interpreted by many...

May 2016

May 01, 2016

Tyler Glenn and Jeffery Holland: The Power and the Limits of Anger

Shortly after Nathan and I married we were enjoying a family evening for two. He...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

There are No Gays in Heaven?

Guest post by Mike Cammock - a New Zealand born Vermont marriage transplant. He is very...

January 11, 2016

God is Silent on Same Sex Marriage – How Opinion Turns into Doctrine

Guest post by Ganesh Cherian of Wellington, New Zealand As Mormons we pride ourselves...

November 2015

November 08, 2015

So what kind of church is this?

In a previous post I mentioned that I had been attending a local Baptist church....

June 2015

June 21, 2015

The Letter from the Office of the First Presidency that Never Came

The Office of the First Presidency Somewhere on Temple Square Salt Lake City, Utah USA...

June 04, 2015

Choosing NOT to Serve a Mission

This guest post is by 21 year old Isaac McCluskey - my son. Raising children to...

June 02, 2015

Polygamy – It’s in our bones

Ganesh Cherian, a former bishop from Wellington, New Zealand joins KiwiMormon once again as a...

May 2015

May 23, 2015

The Foolishness of the Calderwood Excommunications

Last night Marisa and Carson Calderwood were excommunicated at a Church Discipline held at their...

May 09, 2015

Freedom for all, except people who disagree with me

This guest post is by Nicola Ward Petty, a convert from Catholicism, a returned missionary...

May 03, 2015

Gloriavale and the Mormons: What New Zealand’s latest religious drama has to teach us

Nestled against the Western range of the Southern Alps in New Zealand is a Christian...

April 2015

April 18, 2015

Mormon Internet Trolls, Cyberbullies and Doxing

I've been in the blogging game for three years now. I'm used to trolls and...

March 2015

March 09, 2015

Monogamous Mormon Threatened for Rejection of Polygamy

On the 2nd February Kirk van Allen wrote a critique of Section 132 of the...

February 2015

February 15, 2015

Digesting the Dehlin Drama: Thoughts in the wake

I've spent the last couple of days percolating the latest excommunication drama, waiting for the...

January 2015

January 18, 2015

How loving the church can get you hated by the church

On the 10th of January 2014 a group of commissioners from the Hamilton District Council...