Anguished Musings on a Frayed Testimony
What is the Atonement? I asked my elder foster brother Jeff. I was 16. During the preceding six years I had been on an enforced hiatus from church activity. I had been trapped, the child and stepchild...
View ArticleMormon Internet Trolls, Cyberbullies and Doxing
I’ve been in the blogging game for three years now. I’m used to trolls and comment preachers who call me to repentance for my wickedly evil ways, blah blah blah. I don’t really mind if they name...
View ArticleGloriavale and the Mormons: What New Zealand’s latest religious drama has to...
Nestled against the Western range of the Southern Alps in New Zealand is a Christian commune known as Gloriavale. It has always attracted attention largely due to its inauspicious beginnings...
View ArticlePolygamy – It’s in our bones
Ganesh Cherian, a former bishop from Wellington, New Zealand joins KiwiMormon once again as a guest blogger. Any good sculptor will tell you that if you want to replicate the human form you have to...
View ArticleThe Next Women in Jesus’ Life
In the summer of my 12th year my woman’s body began to take shape. In that space between childhood and adolescence I was largely oblivious to my physical maturation preferring the usual business of...
View ArticleGospel Doctrine Commentary: The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith
Guest post by Ganesh Cherian. Wellington, New Zealand One of the greatest murder mysteries of the 19th Century is the martyrdom of Joseph Smith: Joseph and his brother Hyrum died at Carthage Joseph...
View ArticleLeaving the Church to Lead the Nation
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...
View ArticleCheating LDS Young Women – Again
When I was a Laurels’ class president I was invited to a conversation with the General Young Women Presidency who were touring New Zealand. I was free to come with my questions. So I said to them:...
View ArticleDear First Presidency: We are not your flavours
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...
View ArticleWhen the LDS Church Disciplines a Woman
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...
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