faith-transitions
Why people leave, treatment of former members, faith crisis research, testimony/spiritual experiences, mixed-faith relationships, communication with family.
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- Asking: What is the complete list of books held in the the vault?
- Never love your wives one hair's breadth further than they adorn the Gospel
- Careful the Compassionate and the Dragon over the Mountain
- Consequences of leaving the group tend to be proportional to the level of totalism
- Former members discuss their anger
- Spencer W. Kimball on the effects of Excommunication
- No-fail responses to critical comments
- Former members treated differently than members at BYU
- How Latter-day Saints are viewed by former Mormons
- How those who leave the LDS Church are viewed
- Discussion and Conclusions: How those who leave the LDS Church are viewed
- Attitude towards those who do not believe but stay
- Example Letter from Grandma: 'so much you could accomplish for good
- Stories of Acceptance
- Stories of Traumatic Faith Transitions
- The Shunning Key: Whom Latter-day Saints shun and why
- Why former members are angry
- Why do people leave the LDS Church?
- The demand for certainty
- Difference between faith and knowledge
- Faith, the conversation stopper
- Confidence faith vs. religious faith: personal reflections on faith, hope, and love
- The efficacy of LDS Priesthood Blessings
- Report, chronicles, and presentation on LDS faith crises
- Most LDS service inwardly focused
- Resources related to the helps and harms of the LDS Church
- LDS Church wrong on moral issues of the day
- Hermetically Sealed Systems in LDS Thought
- Mennonite apology for treatment of LGBTQ people
- “‘God made them that way’—It is blasphemy”: LDS Statements on the causes and cure for homosexuality
- Resources related to non gender-binary
- Key principles to building bridges of understanding
- What NOT to say to your LDS believing family members
- Morality is an emergent principle
- Morality Transcends Religious Belief
- Motivation to resign from the LDS Church
- Beliefs in Resonance
- Major sources of beliefs, light and knowledge
- Outline of my beliefs
- Summary of my beliefs relative to core LDS doctrine
- The Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto
- Brief Sketch of Events Surrounding My Resignation
- Familiarity with LDS scholarship
- Indicators of my dedication and spiritual development
- My Family's Dedication to the Gospel
- Proposed survey on divine manifestations
- Why be skeptical of reports of LDS Apostles seeing Jesus?
- 2019 Divine Visitation Survey
- The Divine Visitor Problem: Objectivity, intersubjective identity, and identification
- The LDS Church ban on oral sex
- Example of masturbation shame
- Why is sex linked to morality?
- Elder Bednar: “you don't have to recognize that you are receiving revelation in the moment that you are receiving revelation”
- Kyle S. McKay letter excerpt on spiritual experiences
- President Nelson on “the principle of revelation”: “write the thoughts that come to your mind... record your feelings”
- 5 Questions about spiritual experiences and real intent
- Spiritual confirmations received since leaving the LDS Church
- The parts of an LDS spiritual experience
- Resources on faith, spiritual witnesses, and epistemology
- Surprise as a rubric for deciding communication from the Holy Ghost
- Testimony, spiritual experiences, and truth: A careful examination
- "A Different Way of Knowing": The uses of irrationality ... and its limitations
- Types of Latter-day Saint Spiritual Experiences
- Are members breaking promises when they leave the LDS Church?
- The 50/50 Scenario
- The 6 Sources of Revelation
- Perhaps asking whether the Church is a cult is not the best question?
- Luna Lindsey on polarization of cultic studies
- Pressure against expression of beliefs counter to LDS position - Wally's Mom
- Most members don't seem to care about Church issues
- Example of totalistic attitude: accomplishments only important if building kingdom
- Example of invasive interview: facebook stalking
- Listen to a recording of your testimony
- Pinegar deals with unhappy missionary
- Example of totalistic attitude: The worst sin
- Savannah's testimony
- The three-fold nature of the LDS Church: corporate, totalistic, and individual-growth
- Individuals in the past 100 years who claim to have seen Jesus Christ
- On the existence of ghosts
- Test for disembodied consciousness
- Simple 14 word test for prophetic ability
- Vetting (Potentially) Divine Visitors: An Information-Theoretic and Cognitive Framework
- Vetting (potentially) divine visitors
- What I've taught my older children about LDS truth claims
- Why does it matter?
- Beit-Hallahmi on mystical experiences
- Lamport on homeophathic automobile repair shops
- Beit-Hallahmi on developing a moral compass
- Beit-Hallahmi on religiously inspired altruism
- Beit-Hallahmi on religious biases
- Subtle discrimination as harmful as overt
- Beit-Hallahmi on the lessons of history argument
- Beit-Hallahmi on the religious engagement paradox
- LDS Retentive Socialization