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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....

November 2016

November 10, 2016

Dear God, Please keep America a Foreign Land

The best thing I heard on National Radio this morning was; "This is a wake-up...

October 2016

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 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...

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...

March 2016

March 25, 2016

How I Failed My Mormon Sabbatical

At the end of last year I tearfully thrust my Temple Recommend into my Bishop’s...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

‘Gospel’ Culture Shock

I grew up in New Zealand hearing a term that was frequently deployed in order...

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...

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 01, 2015

The 15 Ailments of the LDS Church (With a hat tip to Pope Francis)

While Mormons are asked to, required to, strong-armed into ‘sustaining’, not questioning, obeying etc. every...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Growing Bold Mormon Daughters: The Impossibility of Emma Watson and Jacinda Ardern

If I had a daughter I hope she would be Emma Watson. I don’t...

July 2014

July 08, 2014

Saving Zion from America: Theorizing in the aftermath

I've been thinking about Zion. I am one of a few fortunate Mormon feminists,...

June 2014

June 17, 2014

Room For All In This Church

We face a difficult and pivotal moment in Mormonism as LDS leaders and church members...

June 14, 2014

The Importance of Religious Heresy: Recent Contemplations

So lets talk apostasy. It might surprise some people but I've actually been accused of...

June 12, 2014

Paying the Price For Patriarchy

Firstly to my sisters, and brother allies in arms; You have not wept, cried nor...

April 2014

April 16, 2014

Reflections after Temple Square: Furious musings from the periphery

Two nights ago there was a men’s dinner at our home. It was Nathan’s birthday...

April 02, 2014

I was at the Ordain Woman action but…

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Public Square 2014 Summer Series: Conversations on Religious Trends....

March 2014

March 25, 2014

Its Time to Overhaul the Church Bureaucracy!

Years and years ago I was the Stake Librarian. My first job was to bring...

March 01, 2014

A few years ago, seeking a temple recommend from the Stake Presidency (in a Stake...

July 2012

July 15, 2012

New Zealand Mormon Church Finances: A Case Study

Last Sunday our RS teacher asked, “What prevents us sharing the gospel with others?”. My...

April 2012

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...

February 2012

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...

February 05, 2012

Tithing: Why New Zealanders have it harder than Americans

A couple of years ago I went to my Bishop and spilled my guts about...