Guest Post: Luke Skywalkers
Guest Post by Anonymous. Many of society’s complex problems can be simplified with math. Criminal justice, for example, is essentially a problem of false positives and false negatives. In an ideal world, the criminal...
Tagged: temple recommend
The Mountain of the Lord’s House
This past weekend was General Conference. One thing at conference that made me happy was something President Nelson said in his talk in the Sunday morning session. He specifically invited single people to receive...
Guest Post: That Which is Beautiful and Sacred #CopingWithCOVID19
By Anonymous Before COVID-19, I was becoming increasingly uncomfortable watching 11-year-olds pass the sacrament knowing that I could not. Every Sunday this wound grew bigger and bigger. And then the world shut down. My...
What Church Leaders Don’t Understand About the Power Dynamics in Worthiness Interviews
Several years ago, I wrote a post on my personal blog that I thought was completely benign, but someone in my ward sent it to the bishop. That Sunday I had a temple recommend...
#hearLDSwomen: “We don’t need you.”
By Lynne “I’d like to know why you don’t have a current temple recommend.” I sat across from my bishop, stunned. This is not how I envisioned this meeting. As one of the...
Guest Post: Temple Recommend
By Anonymous My grandfather was a very bad man. Have you seen the movie Spotlight, about Catholic priests who were sexually abusing children back in the 1970s? He was the Mormon version of that,...
An Announcement from April Young Bennett
As a condition of renewing my temple recommend, my new stake president has required me to resign from the board of Ordain Women and, with the exception of my Ordain Women profile, take down...
Introducing Informed Consent to Bishop’s Interviews
Ethically sound research interviews must have informed consent, maintain confidentiality and undergo an Internal Review Board process to verify that psychological, social and other risks to participants are limited. Research interviews and ecclesiastical interviews...
Comments