The Thought Model empowers a person to understand how they process thoughts, make decisions, and take action in order to make lasting changes in their lives. People often get stuck in the circular thinking/questioning phase of a faith crisis when they feel deceived by the current church narrative and newfound information. This tool helps people …
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2019
Zion: The Roots of Mormon Correlation
This presentation will explore the practical, theoretical, and theological underpinnings of the correlation movement, a bureaucratic reform movement which spanned the first two thirds of the twentieth century and reinvented the organization and culture of the Church. Matthew Bowman, Brian Hauglid
Radio Free Mormon Broadcasting Behind Enemy Lines
For the first time, RFM will personally meet his listeners and others who want to ask about anything and everything that is happening behind enemy lines. Robbie Stone
The Rising Strong Process: Official DARE TO LEAD™ Brené Brown Curriculum
Based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, Dare to Lead is an empirically based courage- building program. Learn the role that curiosity and recognition of emotion play in developing rising results. Recognize common strategies for offloading hurt and learn more effective behaviors for managing emotion. Learn the physics of vulnerability. Learn to rise after …
Essence of The Classic Yoga Scriptures: The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita (The Song of The Lord) is the most famous and influential Hindu scripture. It was a source of inspiration for Albert Einstein. It was a handbook for Gandhi. It had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson, who called it, “the first of books,” and Henry David Thoreau, who said, “In the …
Faith, Food, Culture and Science
LDS members tend to put the primary focus on the Word of Wisdom when discussing nutrition in the Church community. In doing so, we may be missing the bigger impact that our faith can have on our dietary behaviors and overall health. But what happens when the current science doesn’t uphold revelation? How do we …
When God Isn’t A White CisHet Dude
Many post-Mormons reject God altogether after rejecting the Mormon temple god with a beard, but what other versions of God might work for the rest of us? Mette Harrison, Natalie Sperry Mandelin
The Primary Colors and My Duct-taped Shelf
Using my favorite Primary songs as a framework for growth, I’ve learned to live without fear, trust my gut, be an advocate for social justice, heal from crippling depression, and recognize that there are many spiritual paths and that Mormonism is just one possible path to the top of the mountain. Using Primary lyrics, I …
Finding Consensus in Mormon Controversy
Skeptics insist that the evidence makes it impossible for Mormons to confront thorny historical and doctrinal questions with their faith intact. But just as there’s more than one way to Mormon, there’s also more than one way to ex-Mormon. Jim Bennett explores the multiplicity of legitimate ways to evaluate the truth claims of the Church …
John W. Woolley as a Highly Trusted Mormon From September 1886 to December 1913
Most “Fundamentalist Mormons” have honored John W. Woolley (born in 1831) as the man who became senior “High Priest Apostle” following the death in 1918 of LDS Church president Joseph F. Smith. According to that belief, both were among the six men allegedly commissioned in 1886–87 by President John Taylor to preserve plural marriage if …