DEAR SISTER LARSON, I want to respond to your recent, public post that pertains to the aftermath of last week’s Relief Society Worldwide Devotional, as well as those who agree with its content....
I’VE BEEN CHIN DEEP IN Utah era polygamy again, this time scouring the plural marriage defenses written by Orson Pratt and his contemporaries. I’ve long been intrigued by how polygamy continu...
Excerpt: "Eventually, LDS men will understand that the only genuine power they possess in our patriarchal system is the power to say no, to keep hold of their integrity and ideals, to stand as di...
TODAY I DIRECT MY THOUGHTS primarily towards the men who hold the LDS priesthood because two recent events have garnered my attention, in part for the way each involves decisions made by LDS men....
LAST SUNDAY, I CAUGHT another glimpse of what it might be like to sit as an LGBTQIA congregant in a chapel surrounded by people you love, while they are comforted by a sermon that depicts your gr...
https://outsidethebookofmormonbelt.com/2023/09/28/allyship-is-a-love-unworthy-of-rebuke/
The Lord uses "love" as a verb, not as a noun meaning emotion.
PUBLIC CHATTER HAS largely abated regarding the February 21 SEC order and its incumbent fines of $1 million against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and $4 million against church-o...
https://outsidethebookofmormonbelt.com/2023/03/28/lds-sr-leadership-the-sec-and-my-sustaining-vote/
...There is risk in standing between power and the powerless. If Jesus had followed the counsel of his religious leaders, there’d have been no savior. It isn’t such a stretch to think that, w...
https://outsidethebookofmormonbelt.com/2023/02/09/advocating-for-the-lds-advocates-within/
PRES. RUSSELL M. NELSON HAS CHEERFULLY stated, “The Restoration continues!” It’s a hopeful message that I hold to. But if the Restoration continues–if there are vital aspects of truth sti...
...If you can do nothing to change the policies or doctrines and your child leaves over doctrine or policy, the blame cannot rest with you. It rests elsewhere...
https://outsidethebookofmormonbelt.com/2022/12/06/to-lds-mothers-on-children-leaving-the-fold/