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Always towards better things…
[1] Semper ad meliora – always towards better things…It’s that time of year (in Australia anyhow!!!) where school is coming to an end for the year. Formals, schoolies and parties mark the calendars of...
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Seeing Mormon Faith Transitions as Social Class Movements
The other day, I found two very intriguing articles. The first was a livejournal article wherein the blogger teased out the sociological differences between social class and economic class (and the...
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Post-Critical Engagement
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but I’ve been a little MIA online lately. There was once a time in my faith journey when I immediately checked the blogs as soon as I woke up every day. I felt I needed...
View ArticleOutsider Thoughts on Middle Way Mormonism
As an on and off (mostly off) participant in Mormon and ex-Mormon spaces (sorry — this post will be a victory for Satan because I will still be using the term Mormon), I’ve always found it interesting...
View ArticleReligious Trauma, Transformation, and the Middle Way
Last week, many of us here at Wheat & Tares began a dialogue about “Middle Way Mormonism” that spread over to a discussion from Sam Brunson at By Common Consent. I love that everyone has had such...
View ArticleWays to Become a More Supportive Church
Once a person has gone through a faith crisis, what can church leaders do to help? David Ostler offers 3 suggestions to help leaders create a more comfortable atmosphere at church. David: In the...
View ArticleFaith Crisis of Mormon/African Polygamists
So far, we’ve talked a lot about faith crises of people who leave over church history or LGBT issues. They aren’t the only are people who leave, however. Some people develop a testimony of polygamy...
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Everyone leaves the LDS church because they are offended
Something I’ve noticed in disaffected Mormon discourse is a trend to emphasize that one’s disaffection and disaffiliation with the LDS church is because of objective reasons (e.g., people leave...
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Faith, Trust and the Marshmallow Test
In the marshmallow test, you sit a preschooler in front of a marshmallow. You tell the preschooler that if she can wait 15 minutes, she will get two marshmallows instead of just the one in front of...
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Feelings Apostasy
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com After I quit attending the LDS Church in 2019, I attended four Protestant churches, wondering if I could find a new faith home. That’s a fairly small sample size, and I...
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