Over the past few years, I have had dozens of conversations with friends and family members who are active members of the LDS Church on the subject of homosexuality. Most active members feel misunderstood and maligned by the ‘world’ and…
The central theme of the Circling the Wagons Conference held in Salt Lake in February of this year was relationship building. The focus of the conference was on developing a set of guiding principles or norms for people of differing…
By Maurie Tarbox Sunday, February 2, 2014 Sunday morning. A Sunday morning that started out like any other Sunday morning in our Utah home, but ended with an experience that will have changed me and many others. This being the…
By Chris McKenna January 2012 was when I decided that I needed to figure out what these homosexual feelings were all about. I had just finished watching the Australian Open Men’s Final and part of the champion’s victory celebration involved…
Howard Anderson, former president of the Los Angeles Stake, passed away last week. I had known Howard for a very long time. He was the President of the California Mission when I first started teaching at UCLA in 1966 during…
By Anne McMullin Peffer I am the third of five children. My siblings and I could probably have won the contention award of the 1970s. We were opinionated, smart, and each felt it was our personal obligation to teach each other…
Note: This is the first in a series of articles that will directly address upcoming 2014 Church curriculum lesson material that could unnecessarily lead to editorializing on homosexuality and same-sex marriage and be hurtful to members of our community. We…
Christmas has come and gone. It is now that carefree time between Christmas and New Year’s. The Christmas tree is still up and Christmas lights still adorn the house. There is a bit of a food hangover from family parties,…
There is a particular story in our early church history that isn’t very well-known, but has greatly occupied my thoughts as of late. I see many correlations in this story between the early Saints and the current LDS LGBT community. …
After passing through despair related to his conflicts as a gay Mormon, Adam Maughan finds hope and emerges after a struggle with suicidality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDHCUZ9mlX4