Today is the Day
Today, people will send thoughts and prayers. Today, people will plead for unity. And tomorrow, we’ll have another mass shooting.
Category: Policy
95 Theses, Five Years Later
Five hundred and five years ago, Martin Luther is reported to have nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the All Saints’ Church. And, of almost equal importance, five years ago, I...
Temple Matron: No Husband Required
I was working my way through Saints, Volume 3 when I stumbled across this bombshell in Chapter 15: “…Armenia Lee had an interview with apostle George F. Richards and her longtime stake president, Edward...
Consent, Power, and Marital Polyamory: Look to Our Own History and Practices First
Today in an opinion piece for the Church-owned newspaper the Deseret News, two professors and a graduate student of Brigham Young University’s School of Family Life wrote, “The Courts are Coming for Monogamy. We...
For the Strength of Youth: Why I Don’t Feel Super Happy When the Church Makes a Good Change
In General Conference earlier this month, the church introduced a new version of the For the Strength of Youth pamphlet. Overall, this new version is a massive improvement over the previous one: gone are...
Let’s Talk About Solo Sex
Masturbation. A word not everyone is comfortable saying out loud. A topic many people aren’t willing to talk openly about. Something we should be thinking about whether we are single, married, have kids or...
When You are “Called”… and it doesn’t quite feel right
We’ve all been there. It happens. Maybe more than we know. A calling is extended and it just seems like the weirdest concept ever. When I was a YSA, I believed all...
Setting Apart Our Daughters to Prepare and Pass the Sacrament
“In our church we believe that when women are set apart to do a calling, they fulfil that calling using the priesthood…Then why can’t the Bishop just call the young women to be ‘sacrament...
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