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2016-08-29T17:36:11+12:00

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Holding on to those in Faith Crisis: A Sacrament Talk

Last updated on: August 29, 2016 at 5:36 pm By Gina Colvin

Guest Post by Nathan McCluskey. What follows is an extract from a 15 minute sacrament talk Nathan was asked to give as the Ward Mission Leader on the topic of “Reactivation and Rescuing.” In April 2012 Bishop Richard C. Edgley of the Presiding Bishopric stated that: “Reactivation has always been an important part of the work of the Lord. While the rescue is a responsibility of every member, holders of the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthood have the... Read more

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2017-08-25T04:05:05+12:00

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

Last updated on: August 25, 2017 at 4:05 am By Gina Colvin

Sadly, the church is the religious home of both victims and perpetrators of crimes and abuses. I don’t expect to never see these kinds of abuses in the church. Mormons are just as prone as anyone else to lapses in self-control and moral reasoning. But what concerns me most is the sometimes unhealthy ways in which Mormon communities manage the consequences for victims who share the same religious space as their offenders. What concerns me is that often the first reaction to... Read more

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2017-06-30T09:39:17+12:00

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

Last updated on: June 30, 2017 at 9:39 am By Gina Colvin

The Book of Mormon is full of war. However, how this is interpreted by many American Mormons is quite different from the way it is interpreted by many Kiwi Mormons. Read more

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2016-05-01T11:52:40+12:00

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

Last updated on: May 1, 2016 at 11:52 am By Gina Colvin

Shortly after Nathan and I married we were enjoying a family evening for two. He was about 12 years old at the time (#kiddingnotkidding) and had literally just come home from his mission. He’d had a wonderful mission and he was determined to start our marriage on the right Mormon foot by setting set up the church’s ‘home and family’ programs in regimental fashion. I had watched his zealotry unfold with suspicion but held my misgivings until this particular evening.... Read more

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2017-11-08T09:58:45+13:00

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How I Failed My Mormon Sabbatical

Last updated on: November 8, 2017 at 9:58 am By Gina Colvin

At the end of last year I tearfully thrust my Temple Recommend into my Bishop’s hands, I stopped wearing temple garments and I gave myself permission to walk away. Like many, I’d had years of feeling like the breath was being sucked out of me as I pulled into the meetinghouse car park; years of feeling as though my head would explode every time I went to sacrament meeting or Sunday School. I’d had years of sorting and sifting... Read more

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2016-03-04T11:50:52+13:00

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Why this KiwiMormon would Vote for Bernie Sanders if I Could

Last updated on: March 4, 2016 at 11:50 am By Gina Colvin

A couple of weeks ago someone challenged my right to have a say on the American Presidential elections. As far as she was concerned I’m not an American so I don’t get to have an opinion. As a Kiwi – I’m calling that remark out as complete bollocks. The US has been referring to itself as the greatest nation on Earth ever since I can remember. America is like a big flickering TV screen that draws the rest of the... Read more

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2016-02-28T16:00:33+13:00

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Reflections on the New Zealand/Australia Special Conference: Finding Mormonism’s Thin Places

Last updated on: February 28, 2016 at 4:00 pm By Gina Colvin

I’ve just been to a special Stake Conference for New Zealand and Australia. It included an opening address from our Stake President and a broadcast from General Authority Speakers. I really liked some of it. But I struggled somewhat through my Stake President’s address about the reliability of our church leaders regardless of the efficacy of their counsel. ‘They could be wrong’, he would argue’, but we will be blessed in following them regardless.’ I love my Stake... Read more

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2017-06-03T08:48:29+12:00

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‘Gospel’ Culture Shock

Last updated on: June 3, 2017 at 8:48 am By Gina Colvin

I grew up in New Zealand hearing a term that was frequently deployed in order to remind us that certain cultural practices don’t comport with one’s membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Gospel Culture has become a ubiquitous term that reminds us non-Americans that we are obligated to ‘pursue a distinctive way of life, common to all members of the church.’ That culture, according to Elder Dallin Oaks, comes from: the plan of salvation, the... Read more

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2016-01-25T22:40:12+13:00

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

Last updated on: January 25, 2016 at 10:40 pm By Gina Colvin

In November 2014 I was privileged to be asked to be the closing speaker at the inaugural Mormon Studies Symposium hosted by Waikato University. There we celebrated Selwyn Katene’s edited book: Turning the Hearts of the Children: Early Maori Leaders in the Mormon Church. and together explored both the past and future of Mormonism for Maori. It was a terrific event, one that I was pleased to be associated with. I discovered recently that the Public Relations write up about this... Read more

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2016-01-25T11:19:54+13:00

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There are No Gays in Heaven?

Last updated on: January 25, 2016 at 11:19 am By Gina Colvin

Guest post by Mike Cammock – a New Zealand born Vermont marriage transplant. He is very determined about not entirely losing his New Zealand accent and he regularly loses his two children in the snow. For the better part of a decade my broader religious experience as a Mormon has been repeatedly sidetracked by public expression and action against the homosexual community from the highest leaders of my faith. Mormonism has opposed homosexuality as an existential threat, reinforcing homosexuality’s... Read more

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