SCOUTS for Mormons: One More Door to the Real World Closing

 I was always a reluctant boy scout. Raised Mormon, it was expected of me that I become a scout. Perhaps it was because I grew up mostly with sisters (eventually 10 would fill my parents’ house), or perhaps it was because I was shy when it came to team sports, …

After the (Second) Fall: A Personal Journey Toward Ethnic Mormonism

This essay was originally a talk given at The Sunday Gathering, August 21, 1994 at the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City. It was later printed in Dialogue, A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring, 1998. WHEN MY FIRST MARRIAGE ENDED IN DIVORCE in 1991, what I describe as my …

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