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Normalize the “truth about Mormonism” including both factual events and experiential knowledge.Yes, the truth is that there are historical anachronisms in there, but the truth is also that millions of

Mormonism is more about folk magic than it is about BYU football. Mormonism is more about ecstatic worship drunk on sacramental wine than it is about canning fruit and storing

On what Mormonism is really all about, according to Joseph Smith, Aleister Crowley, and (mostly) me, a short essay made in the image of a long thread: 0/20 Mormonism is

Something we keep forgetting in this debate about queer Mormonism is that Mormonism =/= the Church. The Church consists of a group of well-meaning but bigoted, queerphobic, authoritarian men. Mormonism

The problem w Mormonism isn’t queer people or progressives or even d*zn*t or conservatives. The problem w Mormonism is an institutional church that says I’m welcome but demands I change

White people, learn to say, “I am in some ways unavoidably racist despite my best efforts to avoid bigoted behavior. I understand that as a recipient of white privilege I’m

Some thoughts on the three “temples” of Mormonism and how I’m managing to reconcile my commitment to the Latter-day Saint spiritual path with my inability to take part in the

Over the past few days, after my critique of the Church’s new symbol, many came out to accuse me of leading people away from obedience to the prophet. Now to

So let’s talk abt Jesus. It’s true the Christus isn’t the Jesus for a global church (or even for American Mormons) & it’s true a graphic design choice isn’t the