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Bedaubed by Aunt Peggy in the glory of the Telestial Kingdom. Mormon by heritage, if not by devotion. Friend to the "snakes in the pews."
Jay's Journal is not alone in setting the stage for the Satanic Panic. Satanism was having a bit of a cultural moment already in the media. But it definitely primed readers toward Satanic influences on suburban youth and did so through a very Mormon lens.
Just reflecting again on how folks would talk about Rubio as some kind of moderate when this is who he's been the whole time, only now he finally feels comfortable enough to remove the mask.
Here's another study that is demonstrative of the issue: doi.org/10.1080/1650... Note the issue that is highlighted by this paper regarding why the controversy around EMDR is hard to resolve in the literature. Namely, the lack of well-controlled studies and rampant research allegiance bias.
Notable quotes: "The current study did not provide support for the notion that psychotherapies with eye movements are more effective in treating PTSD than those without eye movements" (p. 1585). This is a finding consistently reported in the literature going back to the 1990s.
Even all the way zoomed in, it's still hard to decipher. Especially compared to the lines going out from the same section on the left.
Those are some very tiny lines entering the blue section on the right. I know the LDS segment is small to begin with, but for such a missionary-focused group that's quite the oof.
EVERY STATE has laws that protect good faith reporters from legal liability. Not a single state PROHIBITS clergy from reporting opting to waive clergy-penitent privilege to report discovered abuse. Don't let the apologists deceive you.
Setting aside excuses regarding the legal duty to report, if you're a Christian church and do not preach that you have a MORAL duty to report, you absolutely do not understand the words of the man you profess to worship.
Just tell me these Sunstone canvas totes aren't the cutest darn Mormony thing you've seen.
This isn't hard! And it's common when the adapted work is another author's work of fiction. It should be no different when the adapted work is another author's work of nonfiction. Historiography is as much of a craft as writing a literary novel.
If you're interested in the current debates over Joseph Smith's polygamy, Jeremy Hoop, Michelle Stone, and Whitney Horning have sessions on both Friday and Saturday presenting the truther perspective. We have organized two more sessions challenging the truther perspective. This is one of them:
Come to the Sunstone Symposium this year, July 30–Aug 1, in the A. Ray Olpin Student Union at the University of Utah. We have a ton of fun sessions planned this year and a few surprises. See the full agenda and register here: sunstone.zohobackstage.com/SunstoneSymp...
Very excited to meet and learn from @sarahmccammon.bsky.social this year at Sunstone. I've always loved her work as a journalist and her book on Exvangelicals is fantastically written. Thrilled that she is the keynote this year. Register for Sunstone at: sunstone.org/slc2026/
Even BYU scholars have to acknowledge that Paul was not an apostle in the way modern Latter-day Saints conceive of the office. That raises serious questions about why his words are considered especially authoritative. Anymore than your neighbor who claims to have seen Jesus in a dream.
I also find data like this example to be underwhelming. First, the error is massive so there probably isn't a statistically significant difference between these two figures. Second, it's not an election year, so lower enthusiasm is to be expected. Third, the question implies voting for a 3rd term.
And this data tracks with basically every other poll on politics by religion in America. Latter-day Saints as a group skew very conservative, second only to white Evangelicals. Younger members are a little less conservative, which is also true in virtually every group.
Notable to me is not the lack of a gender gap but that, as a whole, Latter-day Saints are generally conservative regardless of age or gender. And that has remained pretty stable over the past ~20 years.
It also squares why Heavenly Mother was only taught as a private doctrine to Smith's closest confidants. These were all parts of an enlightened cosmology available only those Smith deemed ready to accept it. We know he did this on MANY topics—why not spirit birth? I may disagree with Stapley here.
Notably also that the way Brigham Young taught about his garden cosmology is very much in line with the "milk before meat" teaching model that we know Joseph Smith was a big fan of, especially in Nauvoo. Especially for anything touching on polygamy.
In fact, I don't know of any among Smith's inner circle who later challenged the idea of viviparous spirit birth. They all seemed to universally accept the idea and with enthusiasm. That also seems quite significant. And it remained the prevailing model for decades! It remains so for many (most?)!
New shirt arrived just a little late to wear to the Pride Festival but it's evergreen.
It requires a profound blindness to irony to breathlessly invoke TikTok brain rot while presenting the argument that Joseph Smith is a legitimate prophet because he got one interpretation sort of right while being wildly wrong on dozens and dozens of others.
They always first look dry AF but they're a juicy 145° F inside.