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December 2018

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...

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...

September 2017

September 08, 2017

Gospel Doctrine Commentary: The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith

Guest post by Ganesh Cherian. Wellington, New Zealand One of the greatest murder mysteries...

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 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...

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...

January 25, 2016

What will it mean to be Maori and Mormon in 2050?

In November 2014 I was privileged to be asked to be the closing speaker at...

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...

June 2015

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 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...

December 2014

December 07, 2014

Why Leaving the Church Often Means Leaving God

This guest post is by New Zealander Mike Cammock who is originally from Christchurch. Mike has...

November 2014

November 23, 2014

Anguished Musings on a Frayed Testimony

What is the Atonement? I asked my elder foster brother Jeff. I was 16. During...

October 2014

October 14, 2014

The Temple View Saga: A Podcast

Temple View is a small Mormon village on the outskirts of Hamilton New Zealand and...

August 2014

August 02, 2014

Church Leadership and the Dilemma of Dementia

Towards the end of Ezra Taft Benson’s life I recall him being very unwell. I...

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 26, 2014

Burying Shirley, Unexcommunicating Kate

My mother-in-law, Shirley, died a week ago. At the same time as we have been...

May 2014

May 18, 2014

Reflections on the New Zealand Regional Broadcast: Why Censorship is Sometimes Necessary

In the October 2010 General Conference Boyd K. Packer made some controversial remarks. Firstly he...

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...

January 2014

January 12, 2014

“Church Instructs Leaders on Same-Sex Marriage” – or did it just make a bad situation worse?

Once again the church releases an ‘Official Statement’ that makes the hearts sink. My first...

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...

June 2013

June 10, 2013

So you’ve been called to serve a mission in New Zealand! Some insider tips for the Americans

I've been travelling over the last three weeks and last night I found myself in...

October 2012

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...