Sexuality

The recent policy changes in the LDS church treat polygamy and same-sex marriage as analogous...

I’m sure all these things have been said before and better, but in order to...

The online LDS response to the NYT article describing Hans Mattsson’s struggle with doubt about...

I still have a “church” itch as the idea is found in the BoM. So...

In 1971, Elder Boyd K. Packer gave a talk in which he stated: The gospel...

Title: "Swell Suffering": A Biography of Maureen Whipple Author: Veda Tebbs Hale Publisher: Greg Kofford...

Mormons often congratulate themselves for having a relatively healthy theological view of sexuality, at least...

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and...

Introduction [1] The Bible often privileges men as normative for what it means to be...

If you have been around the 'Nacle for a spell you can't have missed the...

Although YHWH clearly was perceived by biblical authors in anthropomorphic terms, YHWH’s body was still...

One of the most important deities that many, if not most, ancient Israelites worshiped was...

Michel Foucault traces the West's shift in concern from sexual acts to sexual desires to...

The Gospel of Mark, written c. 65-70 C.E., is the earliest of the four gospels...

Galatians 3:28 is certainly the most important biblical text in feminist and anti-feminist interpretation in...

Background/The Divine Council This post (yes, I know the title is rather provocative) was inspired...

Valerie Hudson Cassler’s recent defense of heterosexual-only marriage offers a heteronormative account of human relationships...

The Book of Mormon's first-person story of Enos, the inheritor of the prophetic mantle who...

The declaration that "gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity...

Dear Protesters, It has been a frustrating week. You're angry, maybe even irate. I understand....

The Gospel of Philip from the Nag Hammadi corpus contains some important passages about a...

As far as I know, FPR has never had a SSM post, and I think...

Recently, Terryl Givens has celebrated one of the Mormon "heresies" (his term) of "literalism." He...

Last night I attended a baptism that was accompanied by much laughter and merry-making, which...

Heavenly Mother (HM) has proven to be a very potent and productive figure in the...