Liz Brown MacDonald was curious about the effect of the behaviour of religiously rigid parents on their children who disaffiliate from the LDS Church. ‘It’s never good,’ she concludes, ‘to complicate a parental relationship with …
While we honour the expectant Mary at Advent, we rarely discuss her in the context of the suffering of pregnancy and birth. Our sacred texts and Christmas stories leave out the intensely feminine experience of …
How does a young gay, afakasi, Samoan, Mormon man put his spiritual life together when he sits across many religious and cultural divides? When the moorings of fixed belief systems that defined prior generations fall …
Lutheran Ordinand Katie Langston and Community of Christ Elder, Gina Colvin get together in this monthly series to offer our responses to Mormons who are grappling with their spiritual and religious deconstruction and reconstruction. Today’s …
For those who grew up in the ‘Mission Field’, Utah is often referred to as Zion. But, in the 2020 US Presidential elections, Utah seemed anything but Zion. Utah voted for the least Mormon person …
Blogger Michael Mathews II shares his exegesis of Doctrine & Covenants Section 132. While Mormons socially read Section 132 as pointing to the endurance of familial ties after death, Mathews argues, that there is no …
Are unique Mormon communities like Laie, in Hawaii worth celebrating? Absolutely. Mormon communities like Laie on Hawaii’s North shore, which are uniquely indigenous Mormon, have made good homes that have been blessed by the confluence …
Whatever your position on LDS Studies, it can’t be said that the Mormonism is boring. Socially, historically, culturally, politically and theologically its a gold mine of intrigue and interest. Nevermore so than on the topic …
Not all Mormon marriages are doomed, but some are. When divorce happens acrimoniously it’s never a better time to observe the LDS church’s position on the wellbeing of women and children. The wife of a …
Cat McFedries joins me to talk about youth spiritual and religious formation and how some radical pastoring that she received as a young person might have put her off the church, but it didn’t put …
