I’ve been focusing on publishing elsewhere in recent years, and haven’t been writing as much on my blog. Here is a summary of the areas I’ve focused on – and hyperlinks to published pieces between 2019 and 2021:
MINDFUL APPLICATIONS
- A Mindful Way Through Faith Crisis, Part II: Five Heartening Possibilities
- A Mindful Way Through Faith Crisis
- A Mindful Approach to Sexuality – Part I
- Misconceptions about Mindfulness and Sexuality – Part II
- Full Catastrophe Living, in 3-D
- How Mindfulness Can Help Bridge Political Divides
MENTAL HEALTH
- Our Depressing Story about Depression
- To Depressed, Anxious Saints Everywhere
- If More Treatment Is the Answer, Why Haven’t the Numbers Gone Down?
- Why Have Suicides Increased Even After Enormous Efforts to Reduce Them?
- “Your Urge to Die, is Really an Urge to Live Differently”: Laura’s Story
- Silent Souls Healing: A Response to Jane Clayson Johnson’s Book on Depression
- Let’s Talk about Sorcery
- A Short History of Social Media Bans
- Do You ‘Believe in Science’…or Not?
- AstraZeneca and Pfizer Will Save Us
SEXUAL COMPULSIVITY
- Youth Are Inundated by Sexualized Talk. But Don’t Ask Them about It! (PS STAFF)
- Now’s Not the Time to Downplay Sexual Addiction
LGBTQ+/RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
- Competing Views of “Inclusivity” (PS STAFF)
- Disagreement Doesn’t Equal Hate. Even on BYU’s LGBT Policy. (PS STAFF)
- Disagreeing Without Death Threats (PS STAFF)
- Seven Ways Latter-day Saint Teaching about Sexuality Have Been Misrepresented
- Letter to an Activist BYU Professor (and Those You’re Confusing)
- Who Loves Gay People “the Most”: Prophets or Activists?
- “Enlarging the Wounds of Those Already Wounded” in Our Sexuality Discussion Today
- The Well-Being of Youth Shouldn’t Become a Zero-Sum Battle
- How Mormons Building Bridges (et al.) Became a Bridge Distancing Many from their Spiritual Home Part II. Nehor Rises Again
- How Mormons Building Bridges (et al.) Became a Bridge Distancing Many from their Spiritual Home Part I. Stirring Up the Saints
- Restoring the Rainbow
- The Invisible Lens Causing So Much Confusion about the Proclamation on the Family
- A Mindful Approach to Sexuality – Part I
- Misconceptions about Mindfulness and Sexuality – Part II
GENDER & RACE
- So, Are You For Women . . . Or Not? (PS STAFF)
- Can People Repent of Racism?
- Five Ways to Explain Away Black Conservatives (PS STAFF)
- The Doctrine of Christ is Not Racist (PS STAFF)
- Is Latter-day Saint History More (or Less) Racist Than Other Communities’? (PS STAFF)
- Three Public Takes on the BYU Racial Equity Report (PS STAFF)
- Are There Good Reasons to Opt Out of the BLM Movement?
- How Collective Healing Happens (PS STAFF)
- A Rhetoric of Racial Despair
SOCIAL JUSTICE
- The Expanding Language of Revolution in America
- Then They Came for Jefferson (PS STAFF)
- Does Social Justice Really Have to Divide Us? (PS STAFF)
- Competing Narratives of Danger in America
- Competing Narratives of American Redemption
POLITICS & THE ELECTION
- Why is Bernie Winning? Maybe Because He’s Angry
- Monsters Among Us (PS STAFF)
- When Trust Dies (PS STAFF)
- Why Mitt’s Vote Invoked So Much Emotion (PS STAFF)
- Would the Left Accept Four More Years?
- Not Who We Are…Right? (PS STAFF)
- Prophets on Politics: Ten Messages to an Agitated, Aggrieved America (PS STAFF)
- Dear America, We Can Still Do This! (PS STAFF)
- When Does the Poison of Our National Suspicion Become Lethal?
- Disagreement is Not Disunion (PS STAFF)
- The Problem with Demanding Trust
- Mapping Public Disagreements about Election Challenges (PS STAFF)
BYU & THE ACADEMY
- The Beauty at the Heart of the Academy Worth Fighting For
- Disagreement Doesn’t Equal Hate. Even on BYU’s LGBT Policy. (PS STAFF)
- Disagreeing Without Death Threats (PS STAFF)
- Letter to an Activist BYU Professor (and Those You’re Confusing)
- Competing Views of “Inclusivity” (PS STAFF)
CIVILITY & THE PUBLIC SQUARE BROADLY
- The Second Great American Desensitizing
- Disagreeing Without Death Threats (PS STAFF)
- Is it Okay to Disagree about THAT?!
- How Mindfulness Can Help Bridge Political Divides
- Assuming the Worst (PS STAFF)
- Stop Deleting Your Facebook (PS STAFF)
- A Short History of Social Media Bans
“INEVITABLE INFLUENCERS: WHY (DEEP DOWN) WE ALL WANT—AND NEED—TO PERSUADE EACH OTHER OF WHAT WE SEE AS GOOD, BEAUTIFUL, AND TRUE.” (A SERIES WITH ARTHUR PEÑA, CHARLES RANDALL PAUL)
- Why Persuasion Should Be a Sweet (Not a Dirty) Word
- The Threat of Persuasion
- My truth? Your truth? No truth?
- Why Bother Engaging with Stupid, Duped, or Evil People?
- The Virtues of Strong Disagreement
- Our Judgement Against Judgement
- Are We Pursuing Impossible Conversations?
FOR BROTHERS AND SISTERS STRUGGLING WITH FAITH
- Recruiting Alma the Younger
- Turning Something Very Good Into Something Very Bad
- Irreconcilable Faith Crisis? Or Faith Injury to Heal?
- Why does it hurt so bad to walk away from the Church of Jesus Christ?
- It Wasn’t the Evidence that Broke Your Shelf
- Does Progressive Teaching Represent a Higher Embrace of Jesus’s Gospel or a Misunderstanding of It?
- Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are
- New Heart, New Mind, New Year
- A Response to Jana Riess’s “The Next Mormons”: Part II
- A Response to Jana Riess’s “The Next Mormons”: The Importance of Disentangling Data from Argument
- Excommunication as a Protection Against Spiritual Violence
- Struggle Doesn’t Make You Special
- A Mindful Way Through Faith Crisis, Part II: Five Heartening Possibilities
- A Mindful Way Through Faith Crisis
OTHER GOSPEL APPLICATIONS
- Saving Meghan’s Fairytale (PS STAFF)
- Those Ultimate Christian Fighting Words (PS STAFF)
- Even Better Than a Utah Jazz Championship
PANDEMIC
- Prophets on Pandemic: Ten Messages to a Weary, Wary World (PS STAFF)
- The Grinch Who (Almost) Stole Thanksgiving (PS STAFF)
- Is the Gospel of Jesus Too Boring for America? (PS STAFF)
- The Coronavirus Choice We’re Not Talking About
- Can Thoughtful People Disagree about the Coronavirus Response?
- Mapping Public Disagreements about Covid-19 Response
- Discerning True from False Conspiracy (PS STAFF)
- Dialogue on Life and Death Matters (PS STAFF)
- A Short History of Social Media Bans
- Do You ‘Believe in Science’…or Not?
- AstraZeneca and Pfizer Will Save Us
- What Does It Mean to Be “Effective”?
- Is Vaccine Dialogue Even Possible?
- Staying United as Families When America is Not
- Holding Hard Questions with Humility
- The Most Reviled Minority in America?
- Is it Okay to Disagree about THAT?!
- The Mob Comes for Stockton
- Compassionate Coercion: Embrace It, or Fight It?
- To Those Who Love the Prophet, But Not the Vaccine
- Obedience…No Matter What?
- Three Other COVID-19 Matters That Could Unite All Believers
- Hearing Each Other’s Fears about COVID-19 Vaccination
- A More Honest Explanation for Medical Skepticism
APOCALYPSE
