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Under the Banner of Heaven is a Fascinating Examination of Ex-Mormon Issues

Robbie Pierce, April 30, 2022April 30, 2022

Under the Banner of Heaven, the new true crime series on Hulu, delves deep into the story of Brenda Lafferty (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a Mormon woman who was murdered along with her baby in 1984 in a Utah suburb. The case is portrayed through fictional detective Jeb Pyre (Andrew Garfield), and…

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The Dangerous Myth of Big-Tent Mormonism

Robbie Pierce, April 4, 2022April 11, 2022

About a year after I excised Mormonism from my life, I received a Facebook invitation from someone I hadn’t thought about in all that time. It was for an event called “Sit With Me Sunday,” organized by a group of self-proclaimed LDS allies to LGBTQ people as an attempt to…

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    I imagine anyone who has tried to change the church from within will identify with Kitchen's story. I especially like…

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    This was a painful review to read. For many years, I held the same hope, that the LDS church would…

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