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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,...

November 2016

November 12, 2016

The Trump Supporter Next Door

If you've been following the Peculiar People column over the past few months, you've probably...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

Review: The Mormon Jesus

Perhaps my devotional life’s greatest flaw is that I forget about Jesus. Intellectually, of course, I...

June 17, 2016

Stop Praying for us, and Acknowledge That You Helped Create Omar Mateen

Let me give you a run down: 2015 was the deadliest year on record for...

May 2016

May 13, 2016

Trans Win: Federal Government to Sue North Carolina

The Department of Justice recently announced it will be suing North Carolina for House Bill...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

How has Obamacare Helped Queer People?

The Affordable Care Act (ACA or colloquially termed ‘Obamacare’) has now defied the odds within...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Polygamy and the New LDS Policy: Two Thoughts

Michael Many, including Elder Christofferson, have noted that the LDS Church’s new policy toward...

November 10, 2015

These Three Things Are True

Sharp divisions make it hard to pinpoint "how Mormons feel" about the policy barring children...

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...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

With the Mormon Church’s Backlash Against Boy Scouts, Gay Leaders Are Merely Scapegoats

Young men in the Mormon faith are almost guaranteed to be automatically enrolled with the...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

Religious and Gay: A Catholic-Mormon Dialogue (Part 3 of 3)

This is part 3 of a 3-part discussion with Alex Griffin and Eve Tushnet. In...

July 16, 2015

Religious and Gay: A Catholic-Mormon Dialogue (Part 2 of 3)

This is part 2 of a 3-part discussion with Alex Griffin and Eve Tushnet. In...

July 03, 2015

The Hidden Telos of Marriage

As I made my way through the 100+ page ruling of the recent Supreme Court...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

I Even Remain Alone?: Reflections on Eve Tushnet’s “Gay and Catholic”

About two years ago Ralph Hancock, a BYU professor of political philosophy, met with the...

October 2014

October 05, 2014

Junia The Apostle and Mormonism’s Priesthood

Most Mormons don’t know it yet, but Romans 16:7, "Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives...

August 2014

August 12, 2014

Visible Women

On June 24, I was at a national gathering of religious leaders and scholars in...

March 2014

March 26, 2014

Emma, My Daughter in Zion: A Preliminary Study of D&C 25, Part 2

In the preceding post (part 1), I work through a set of exegetical preliminaries to...

March 26, 2014

Emma, My Daughter in Zion: A Preliminary Study of D&C 25, Part 1

This and the post following it (part 2) are pieces I wrote a few years...

March 24, 2014

No More Strangers

One of my most familiar childhood religious memories is waking up at the end of...

March 22, 2014

Ordaining Women Is Not Going Away for LDS

The issue of women’s ordination in the LDS church is at least in its fourth...

February 2014

February 17, 2014

Who is Speaking for Me?

In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon famously faced each other in the first...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

Justice and Fairness

It’s been interesting to follow discussions about gender and priesthood during the last several months....

November 11, 2013

“If We Can’t Fix It, It Ain’t Broke”

“IF WE CAN’T FIX IT, IT AIN’T BROKE.” Because I live in Hong Kong,...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Why LDS Women Will Not Be Ordained to the Priesthood

Over the last year, a small but growing movement within the LDS church has emerged...

September 05, 2013

Why Mormon Feminism Should Be About Men Too

Anyone who has spent time in a feminist Mormon housewives discussion forum knows how frequently...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

Be a Man

Every summer, our family spends some time at a cabin in rural Utah and attend...

July 19, 2013

Old Stories and Familiar Tropes: Anti-Catholicism and the Female Body in Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’

In her post “Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’: An Eternal Return” earlier this week, my colleague Susanna...

May 2013

May 06, 2013

Put Your Mormon Where Your Mouth Is: Gender, Sexuality, and The Second Great Commandment

During Conference in October 2007, at the end of General Relief Society President Julie Beck’s...

April 2013

April 08, 2013

On Historical Sources, Mormonism, and the Pinterests of the new General Young Women’s President

I've spent the last three weeks carefully handling 18th century manuscripts housed in some of...