Why Leaving the Church Often Means Leaving God
This guest post is by New Zealander Mike Cammock who is originally from Christchurch. Mike has served a mission in Taiwan, and currently resides in Windsor, Vermont. He and his wife Chris are the...
View ArticleHow loving the church can get you hated by the church
On the 10th of January 2014 a group of commissioners from the Hamilton District Council released their report after hearing an application from the LDS church to demolish buildings on the recently...
View ArticleDigesting the Dehlin Drama: Thoughts in the wake
I’ve spent the last couple of days percolating the latest excommunication drama, waiting for the heavy weight of it on my heart to lighten somewhat. It hasn’t. It was sadly inevitable that John was...
View ArticleMonogamous Mormon Threatened for Rejection of Polygamy
On the 2nd February Kirk van Allen wrote a critique of Section 132 of the Doctrine and Covenants. In his analysis he concluded that as far as he could see polygamy was morally wrong. For this...
View ArticleMormon Internet Trolls, Cyberbullies and Doxing
I’ve been in the blogging game for three years now. I’m used to trolls and comment preachers who call me to repentance for my wickedly evil ways, blah blah blah. I don’t really mind if they name...
View ArticleGod is Silent on Same Sex Marriage – How Opinion Turns into Doctrine
Guest post by Ganesh Cherian of Wellington, New Zealand As Mormons we pride ourselves on being led by a prophet. We believe we are in a privileged position to know the will of God. This is also...
View ArticleWhen the LDS Church Disciplines a Woman
Whatever you may think about the soteriology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it offers big, audacious blessings. I went to the temple to be sealed to my first husband when I was...
View ArticleA Year After a Church Discipline and I’m Still Mormon!
I would be remiss if I didn’t give a huge shout-out to President Russell Nelson who has, by decree, un-coupled the LDS Church from the moniker ‘Mormon’. This means the word ‘Mormon’ can now refer...
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