The “Sex/Porn Addiction” Model, developed in the 1980’s, has promoted therapy and treatment services that are based in arbitrary, moralistic and sex-negative messaging and that do not stand up to academic, evidence-based scrutiny. Proponents claim that individuals become addicted to sexual pleasure or to watching pornography in the same way someone may become chemically dependent …
Event: Salt Lake Symposium 2016
Mama Dragon Story Project
A message of unconditional love is the cause the Mama Dragons fight for. They seek to protect and defend their LGBT+ children against the onslaught of dogma inflicted by both religion and society. The Mama Dragons are predominantly Mormon or have a Mormon background, but the group does not limit itself to members of a …
Ex Mormons Online How Internet Communities Fuel The Exodus And Aid Faith Transition And Recovery
With growing access to the Internet, tens of thousands of Mormons are uncovering uncomfortable facts leading to a painful crisis of faith that can trigger phobias and internalized shame; cause them to be shunned by family and community; and destablize their identity, sense of reality, and moral framework. With so few professionals to guide them, …
Why We Stay
This perennially well-received session features the stories of those who have chosen to remain active, dedicated Latter-day Saints even in the face of challenges to traditional faith. Dan Wotherspoon, Sydnie Cazier Olsen, Bill Reel, Eric Samuelsen, Jerri A. Harwell
When Religion Creates Dragons Mama Dragon Panel
The LDS Church can claim to “love the sinner and hate the sin” all it wants, but if there were REAL love for LGBTQ people in Mormonism, there would be no need for the Mama Dragons—a group that started with seven women and is now almost 800 strong. Our hope is that one day there …
Battle For The Beginners An Argument Over How To Present Mormonism To Newbies
Christopher Bigelow and Stephen Carter have both authored guides for people new to Mormonism. Along the way, they encountered sticky questions. How do you decide what the “essentials” of Mormonism are in the first place? How do you talk about difficult aspects of Mormon history? How do you present the attractions of Mormonism without being …
Many Infants On Multiple Thrones What We Do Why We Do It And How We Think It Matters
Infants on Thrones (Heather, John, Glenn, Jake, Matt, Scott, and Tom) commemorates its fourth year of podcasting by reflecting on the highs and lows of irreverently ponderizing the philosophies of men, mingled with humor. Jake Frost, Tom Perry, Matt Long, John Hamer, Scott Rowley, Glenn Ostlund, Heather Craw
Adam And Eve Film The Series Screening
Repeat Screening of session 252 Davey Morrison Dillard, Bianca Morrison Dillard
Plural Marriage Our Story
Several members of the Fundamentalist community in Bountiful, Canada will discuss their experiences with plural marriage and what it means to them. Edith Barlow, Elise Barlow, Hanna Blackmore, Elsie Blackmore, Dollie Blackmore, Mary Blackmore
Play Reading Burn By Morag Shepherd
BURN is the story of a young Mormon mother working through a crisis of faith manifesting itself through an allergy to the sun. This is a new work by Morag Shepherd being produced this fall in Salt Lake City. Morag is the 2015 recipient of the a grant from the David Ross Fetzer Foundation for …