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I avoided this talk on purpose but I have at least partially read some articles in relation to it. I avoided it and any articles. :P It's a shame that so much of the Mormon identity is centered around procreation through sexual reproduction. So much so that the highest conceptualization of heaven, ...

That doesn't exactly build trust with the membership. It really doesn't. Leaders should be on an apology tour kissing people's butts but all we're going to get is indignant excuses. On one hand the church requires big sacrifices in time and money, but on the other hand, is unwilling to be transpare...

I can't speak for general Buddhism but I can speak to the Buddhism that I invented for myself. :P For me the trick isn't to learn to not want things, the trick is more in line with that idea of radical acceptance that was mentioned above. I also probably overemphasize duality in my flavor of Buddhis...

So-called whistleblower. :roll: What's the church culture's fascination with applying the "so-called" label to everything? "So-called" appears in that article twice. I really wish our culture would move away from saying that. It's my understanding that Ensign Peak investments hav...

I don't remember the church asserting that. What I think you may be remembering is that specific projects (like the mall) were not funded by tithing contributions. I think this is largely correct. Let's say that half of the money is direct from tithing contributions and the other half is growth on ...

There was a baffling news release. https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/statement-issued-following-cbs-60-minutes-report The Church believes in being financially responsible by carefully ensuring it has adequate resources available to fulfill its divinely appointed responsibilities. To C...

Sharyn Alfonsi: But don't you agree this would be a non-issue if there was more transparency? Christopher Waddell: No, because then everyone would be telling us what they wanted us to do with the money. People already do that when there's no transparency. The money managers are also free to ignore ...

I believe the church has recently gotten better with giving access to information in its archives, the Joseph Smith Papers project and opening up the information in Handbook 1 to the public a few years ago as examples. I also believe there are things that are in the archives that have extremely tigh...

I'll admit, my first thought when he posed that question was, "He didn't." ;) Most of the other reasons I could come up with or other reasons I've heard in the past are really only answers because of limitations introduced by other beliefs. I don't know that any of them would make much sen...

I've seen a few PBs and one common theme appears to be reassuring members that they'll be able to check all the boxes that church culture has laid out for them. You'll serve a mission, you'll get married in the temple, you'll have children. I'd love to hear of some that gave people the blessing to b...