The Spiritual Dilemma of the LDS Church’s Overblown Wealth

October 21, 2016, 9:11 pm

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I’ve tried and tried over the years  to figure out why the LDS church needs so much money.  Estimates are that LDS Inc. owns about USD$375B, debt free.  That makes them a Fortune 5 company.  It feels  sketchy and inexplicably off to me.  I know, I know – I’ve heard all about the church’s rainy [Read More...]

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Hurray! It may or may not be fine if you are Mormon and Gay!

October 25, 2016, 6:05 pm

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The re-vamped Mormon and Gay website  went live today. If I had discovered the website as a newbie I might give a wee yip of approval. But I’m not new to the Mormon church’s misguided and historically painful past on the matter,  and anyone who has paid attention might be all too aware that the Church has made [Read More...]

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Dear God, Please keep America a Foreign Land

November 9, 2016, 1:36 pm

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The best thing I heard on National Radio this morning was; “This is a wake-up call for the rest of the world. America is foreign. They may talk like us and look like us, but it’s foreign.” Except if you are New Zealand Mormon where America is present everywhere.  From our services to our dress, to [Read More...]

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Me and The Book of Mormon: It’s Complicated

March 17, 2017, 4:41 pm

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My mother insisted I read The Book of Mormon before my baptism.  It was a slow grind, but every morning I would jump into bed with her and snuggle up against her soft, warm body,  and we’d make our way through eight verses at a time until it was done.  Thinking about it now still [Read More...]

Leaving the Church to Lead the Nation

October 19, 2017, 1:57 am

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For the last month, New Zealand has been in the grim, dim shadow space between a general election, vote counting and coalition deals.   Tonight it was confirmed that New Zealand First has chosen a deal with the New Zealand Labour Party.   This means that after nine long years of dudebros in suits;  a rising tide of […]

Dear First Presidency: We are not your flavours

January 16, 2018, 1:26 pm

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  Dear First Presidency,   I refer you to just one of the many conclusions from the many years of research done on culture and identity.   “Cultural identity is an important contributor to people’s wellbeing. Identifying with a particular culture gives people feelings of belonging and security. It also provides people with access to […]

When the Soul Needs a New Home

April 19, 2018, 3:38 am

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I think I’ve always been a God girl.   I knew I loved Jesus when at seven years old I heard the story of the Good Samaritan.   I remember staring intently at the sepia picture of religious leaders passing by a broken man on the side of the road.  I listened enthralled as Sister Faifai […]

When Church Leaders are More Important than Church Children

September 16, 2018, 3:21 pm

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“Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.” – Eckhart Tolle When I was 11, the first man entitled to ask me if I kept the law of […]

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When the LDS Church Disciplines a Woman

December 8, 2018, 11:24 am

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Whatever you may think about the soteriology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it offers big, audacious blessings.   I  went to the temple to be sealed to my first husband when I was 19.   That marriage didn’t last,  but that was OK because when it came time to marry  Nathan, President […]

An Open Letter to the Christchurch Stake on the Day of My Church Discipline

December 19, 2018, 3:04 am

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Dear Sisters and Brothers of Christchurch Stake, I recall several years ago talking with a former Stake President about the reasons for church disaffiliation.  He’d just been to a regional meeting and inactivity was a discussion point. He recounted several explantaions offered at the meeting; a) People had been offended. b) They weren’t faithful enough […]