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Due to the international and UK media attention this week on the grossly inappropriate interviews of children by Mormon bishops, I feel I need to share my thoughts and feelings about this based on my own experiences as a bishop … Continue reading →

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 82,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at … Continue reading →

Originally posted on You Are Not So Smart:
The Misconception:  You celebrate diversity and respect others’ points of view. The Truth: You are driven to create and form groups and then believe others are wrong just because they are others.…

Originally posted on journeyofloyaldissent:
The first time I attended an LDS church meeting was on 10th October 1971. I was 18 years old, and had been contacted on the doorstep five days previously by two young American elders, who were…

Mormon Think managing editor Tom Phillips gets inside scoop on Church disclosure on difficult and uncomfortable issues. Mormon Think Opinion: Sunshine is Good Disinfectant – from David Twede. (Previous managing editor of Mormon Think) http://mormondisclosures.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/sunshine-is-good-disinfectant.html?m=1

Originally posted on Reasonable Atheist:
Do beliefs require higher order aims? Since very young children make judgements about their environment, do they have higher order aims to acquire the truth about that judgment? They lack the capacity to understand those…