Without any effort to contextualize or indigenize the LDS Church in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Māori are often asked to accept ways of being that get imported from Utah. This ‘Utah’ worldview is presented to LDS Māori …
Advent marks the beginning of the Church year. Jody England Hansen and Melissa Beh join me to discuss the Way of Love as part of our Advent Study series. This week we found ourselves discussing …
Lawyer Tim Kosnoff recently remarked that he thought that churches were largely harmless. That was until he uncovered a system of cover-ups, and he witnessed first hand the lengths that the Church of Jesus Christ …
In the United Kingdom, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a registered Charity overseen by the Charity Commission. This means it is must provide a public benefit and it needs to be …
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there’s often a very large gap in the theological or doctrinal understanding of the garment, and the lived experience with wearing one. Predictably, Mormons will …
Mark Pugsley is a lawyer in Salt Lake City Utah who specialises in recovering money lost by investors due to bad advice or misconduct. He has represented victims of investment fraud and unsuitable investment recommendations …
Sara Hughes-Zabawa returns to discuss one of the most emotionally and spiritually challenging stages in Fowler’s Stages of Faith; the development of an Individuative-Reflective Faith. In high demand or fundamentalist faith traditions Stage Four is poorly understood and often …
As my interview with spiritual trauma therapy specialist Kathleen Shannon will indicate, a definition for religious abuse is difficult to nail it down. But according to Caswell and Swindle (2018) religious abuse occurs within three …
Jan Tyler has been an active campaigner for women’s rights since the early 1970’s. Her first job was at Weber State University as the Women’s Dean. It was there that she met the incoming President, …
Sam Young was recently excommunicated from the LDS Church. His sin was ‘advocating’ for a change of policy to prevent Church Leaders from asking children sexually explicit questions. He had collected the testimonies of hundreds of abuse …
