Letter From a Doubter
Dear Church Leader, Allow me to introduce myself: I’m a millennial, part-time-work-at-home mom of 3 young kids, married in the temple to a returned missionary. Based on the outpouring of messages and firesides directed...
Category: Family
Guest Post: When God is Love, there is no Sad Heaven
By Jody England Hansen My life as a Mormon does not include a fear of Sad Heaven. It does include hearing from many who struggle with seeing something that is beyond their own...
Memories, Prayers, and a Healing Blessing
In November 2015, the church issued an exclusion policy regarding LGBTQ+ families and their children. You may remember the perspectives of queer women, women in mixed-orientation-marriages, women who are daughters of queer parents, and...
Toxic Mormon Masculinity Series: Pressure to Provide
As part of our Toxic Mormon Masculinity series, we are featuring guest posts from men who share their experiences of operating within the masculinity culture unique to Mormonism. (Introductory post here.) We are happy to...
Complicity with Pedophilia
By Anonymous The recent news about another sexual predator being employed by the LDS Church despite his admission to a church leader of molesting a child (not to mention the story from last week...
Toxic Mormon Masculinity: How Patriarchy Poisons our Men and Boys
Patriarchy in Mormonism negatively impacts men and boys by afflicting them with shame, anxiety, and unrealistic expectations. I term this “Toxic Mormon Masculinity.” When I’ve written about a particular effect that our patriarchal church...
Guest Post: Personal Prayer Rolls
By Maureen Edgerly My grandmother, Catherine, was born in 1884. I saw her almost daily for most of my childhood until her death in 1980. Gramma had a daily prayer practice that I occasionally...
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