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People Who Helped Me Stay Mormon Part I: Jeff Burton


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Before John Dehlin, there was Jeff Burton. Continue reading…

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Reconstruction Part 1: Like a Wave, Driven and Tossed


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Not so long ago I thought I knew certain things were true and wavering was a self-inflicted condition. I also really thought I was an independent thinker who had chosen to be a conservative Republican, and to believe that homosexuality was an illness, and that the priesthood ban was imposed by God for some reason we just couldn’t understand, and that polygamy was a holy practice when it was sanctioned, and that church leaders past and present were inspired in all things and represented the will of the Lord. I thought I chose those positions because they were simply the right, or true, things and I felt that it was of paramount importance to be right with God.

Something changed. Continue reading…

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