My Recent Writing (2019-2021)
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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
MENTAL HEALTH
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
SEXUAL COMPULSIVITY
LGBTQ+/RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Disagreement Doesn’t Equal Hate. Even on BYU’s LGBT Policy. (PS STAFF)
Seven Ways Latter-day Saint Teaching about Sexuality Have Been Misrepresented
Letter to an Activist BYU Professor (and Those You’re Confusing)
“Enlarging the Wounds of Those Already Wounded” in Our Sexuality Discussion Today
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
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
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)
SOCIAL JUSTICE
POLITICS & THE ELECTION
Prophets on Politics: Ten Messages to an Agitated, Aggrieved America (PS STAFF)
When Does the Poison of Our National Suspicion Become Lethal?
Mapping Public Disagreements about Election Challenges (PS STAFF)
BYU & THE ACADEMY
Disagreement Doesn’t Equal Hate. Even on BYU’s LGBT Policy. (PS STAFF)
Letter to an Activist BYU Professor (and Those You’re Confusing)
CIVILITY & THE PUBLIC SQUARE BROADLY
“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)
FOR BROTHERS AND SISTERS STRUGGLING WITH FAITH
Why does it hurt so bad to walk away from the Church of Jesus Christ?
Does Progressive Teaching Represent a Higher Embrace of Jesus’s Gospel or a Misunderstanding of It?
A Response to Jana Riess’s “The Next Mormons”: The Importance of Disentangling Data from Argument
A Mindful Way Through Faith Crisis, Part II: Five Heartening Possibilities
OTHER GOSPEL APPLICATIONS
PANDEMIC
Prophets on Pandemic: Ten Messages to a Weary, Wary World (PS STAFF)
Can Thoughtful People Disagree about the Coronavirus Response?
APOCALYPSE