022-025 Nicki and Lance Miles’ Epic Mormon Transition and their Meeting with Elder Marlin K. Jensen
As part of our series on meetings with Mormon General Authorities, we interview Lance and Nicki Miles. Lance and Nicki’s story four-part story has so many compelling (and epic!) components, including: The death of Nicki’s dad at 13 years old, bonding her to the church. Sexual shame in the teenage years and into their missions. Lance’s
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The Importance of Anger in a Mormon Transition
One of the most predictable ways that believing Mormons attempt to invalidate that path of transitioning and post-Mormons is to dismiss them as being “angry.” Put aside for a second the fact that both God and Jesus experienced anger (e.g., “And the Lord was angry with Solomon…” 1 Kings, 11:9; “And [Jesus] looked around at them with
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The Song of Spring
Create art in order for yourself to become yourself and let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story. Let your very identity be your book. Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody. So go create. Take photographs in the wood, run alone in the rain and sing
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Finding God Again, For the First Time
A reader recently posted a comment that really resonated with me, so much so that I had to write a post about it. The comment was in response to John’s post asking readers what have been the most difficult aspects of transitioning away from Mormonism. Here’s what reader “itscomplicated” had to say: “Feeling I’ve been ‘Catfished’
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