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July 2017

July 03, 2017

A Letter for My Someday-Teenage Children

I write all of this to you, my kids-who-are-probably-too-young-to-make-it-through-this-entire-letter, to explain my commitment to Mormonism,...

January 2016

January 08, 2016

O Say What is Truth

"The Church is true" has got to be the most uttered phrase on the...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

Finding Hope From The Westboro Baptist Church

For years, the Westboro Baptist Church have been synonymous with bigotry. I learned this when...

November 07, 2015

These Arguments are Weak.

That “Insight into new LDS Church policies on same-sex couples and their children” post, written...

November 06, 2015

How I choose to see the revisions

I write this as a heterosexual person, one who is not directly affected by the...

January 2015

January 12, 2015

Doubting at Zion’s Gate

Through happenstance, two of my recent reads synergistically centered on doubt and the thresholds of...

April 2014

April 15, 2014

The Faith of Our Fathers

While chatting with a new LDS convert recently, he asked how long I had been...

February 2014

February 14, 2014

Expanding Our Languages of Religious Experience

“I can imagine Jesus befriending my grandfather, too, frying up some breakfast for him, talking...

May 2013

May 09, 2013

On “Bracketing”

I’ll begin this post in italics, mostly so that---since this is my first post here...

February 2013

February 04, 2013

“It’s like Methodism, only more”: Mormon Conversion and Narratives of the Great Apostasy

A couple of weeks ago in Sunday School, a middle-aged woman shared her conversion story...

November 2012

November 11, 2012

Latter Day Conversions: Divided Families and Reconciled Relationships

As a twenty-year old leader in my college youth group, I was asked one day...