Lindsay Hansen Park is a Utah public historian and the founder and host of the podcast ‘A Year of Polygamy.’ Her interest in the practice arose out of a visceral reaction while young to the possibility …
Sarah Burlingame is a permablogger at Feminist Mormon Housewives. She meets with LDS ecclesiastical leaders regularly as a faith organiser and advocates for LGBTQ belonging in Mormon congregations. She speaks really good Mormon having presented …
“We must truly listen to each other, respecting our essential brotherhood and the courage of those who try to speak, however they may differ from us in professional standing or religious belief or moral vision. …
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 …
Its not often that Mormon couples with similar progressive political dispositions get hitched. Kristy Money and Rolf Straubhaar are one very fortunate couple. To find each other in a faith tradition that has embraced a more …
Bob Rees stands out as an extraordinary human being, one who has navigated the road less travelled that meanders around and through the valleys and peaks of Mormon orthodoxy and progressivism. Succeeding Eugene England as the …
So often the conversation in the Mormon moment is dominated by white men and women who are both dominant numerically in the church but have claimed a large space at the heart of contemporary LDS cultural …
In January of 2014, former New Zealand Bishop, Ganesh Cherian posted a heart-wrenching blog at KiwiMormon called ‘A Former Bishop’s Doctrinal Dilemmas‘. This was on the heels of the first of the series of LDS.org …
120 years after the cessation of the practice Mormon polygamy still arouses very strong feelings, as the response to the latest LDS.org essay bears witness. Outside of the official rhetoric which positions the practice as …
Sometimes Mormon discourses about LGBT issues and concerns are bound by myopic boundaries and shallow discussions. In this episode, film producers Kendall Wilcox and Jon Hastings discuss the purpose of their film project ‘Far Between’ which has …
