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October 2015

October 23, 2015

I’m OK with being ‘only a sister’

It didn't hit me at first. I sat there during the Saturday Afternoon session of...

October 20, 2015

Mitt Romney Still Doesn’t Want to Talk About Race in the Mormon Church

So the guy who was in charge of getting Barack Obama elected both times, David Axelrod,...

October 16, 2015

The 5 Best References to Mormonism in the History of Television

So that Quantico show debuted a little while back. It's a show about FBI agents...

October 04, 2015

Science and Religion

All men, regardless of race, religion, or cultural background all at some point wonder and...

October 04, 2015

A Review of Thomas McConkie’s Navigating Mormon Faith Crisis

A man, peering over the ledge of a precipice into nothingness; a woman,...

October 01, 2015

Book Launch: Navigating Mormon Faith Crisis

On Friday, October 2nd, Thomas McConkie's book Navigating Mormon Faith Crisis: A Simple Developmental Map will be launched....

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Abortion as Seen in Young Adult Science Fiction

Imagine a world where a civil war has been fought over abortion, and the...

September 28, 2015

Clearing the Air

Last week in this space, I wrote about what Latter-day Saints can learn from the...

September 26, 2015

It’s time to change the way we talk about faith

I remember one particularly humid day in Cluj-Napoca, Romania where I stepped onto a sweltering,...

September 22, 2015

Ben Carson’s Islamophobia Could Cost His Mormon Support

The 2016 Republican nomination is turning into quite a spectacle, even when we’re not talking...

September 20, 2015

What Mormons can learn from Catholic Mass

Sacrament meetings are boring. Lets just get it out there. Whether you are an active...

September 17, 2015

“The Family” Won’t Save Us

[Preliminary note: This is the second of two posts (read the other here) offering reflections on Mormon ideas...

September 14, 2015

Marco’s Mormon Moment

The big news right now for everyone with a "Mormon" Google alert is that Sen....

September 13, 2015

The Book of Mormon: What it is and What it is Not

Recently, I have begun to read The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ...

September 11, 2015

If Mormon Women are Too Busy to be Leaders, We Have a Problem

The recent news that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will officially include...

September 06, 2015

Blacks and the LDS Priesthood

When criticisms are generally made against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there...

August 2015

August 29, 2015

About Me

Before I start writing for Patheos, especially for Peculiar People, I thought that it would...

August 28, 2015

“It seems as if the whole world has gone crazy”: Seeking peace in the midst of turmoil

For the first eighteen years of my life, I was Catholic. As I like to...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

Another Year, Another Mormon Feminist Silenced at Church

If someone had asked me three or five years ago whether I feared retribution for...

April 2015

April 22, 2015

Is Mormonism optimistic?

I’ve been having a problem with optimism lately. My last two blog posts were basically...

March 2015

March 15, 2015

Application Deadline Extended for Wheatley Seminar

Advanced undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply to participate in a three week seminar...

January 2015

January 16, 2015

Announcing the 2nd Wheatley Summer Seminar

Announcing the 2nd Annual Wheatley 2015: The 2nd Annual Wheatley “Faith Seeking Understanding” summer seminar will run...

January 12, 2015

Doubting at Zion’s Gate

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

December 2014

December 15, 2014

On Doctrinal Authority

This essay represents a very short, and provisional set of ideas about the topic as...

December 13, 2014

Funeral Lessons from Emma Lou Thayne

In the weeks before Emma Lou Thayne’s death I have been pondering how it was...

December 01, 2014

The Liberal Soul, by Richard Davis

“How can a good Mormon be a Democrat?” If you’re Mormon and politically conservative, you’ve...

November 2014

November 17, 2014

“Toxic Religion”? The Parable of the Pan

There are “winners and losers” in the wake of the acknowledgment by The Church of...

November 04, 2014

Helvetica

According to the official style guide of The Church, “Mormon” implies an individual, not an...

October 2014

October 24, 2014

Faith and History Conference: 2015

A reminder to our readers that the Fifth Biennial Faith & Knowledge Conference will be...

October 23, 2014

Missional and Attractional Mormonism

Along with many other churches in recent years, the leaders and membership of the LDS Church have made...