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The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide

October 24, 2018

Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 1–24
The November 2015 LDS handbook policy change that identified mem- bers who participate in same-sex marriages as “apostates” and forbade children in their households from receiving baby blessings or baptisms sparked ongoing attention to the topic of LGBTQ Mormon well-being, mental health, and suicides.

LDS Prospects in Italy for the Twenty-first Century

August 26, 2018

When Apostle Lorenzo Snow was called in 1849 to “establish a mission in Italy and wherever the spirit should direct,”[1] he was initially optimistic that the Waldensians, a Protestant group in the Kingdom of Sardinia…