Author Archive: shawn

I need your help to figure out something. It’s been on my mind for a long time. In recent months, in random moments, while staring at the floor, hearing the song of a bird or looking or into the eyes…
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One of the most difficult aspects of leaving religious belief is confronting the reality of death and figuring out what exactly it is. If there’s no God, does that mean there’s no afterlife? If there’s no afterlife, what’s the point…
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Approximately mid March 2018 I was approached by an investigative reporter Ben Schneiders from The Age who said he was potentially working on a piece about Mormonism and the one-on-one worthiness interviews that involve sexually explicit questions as part of a larger project about…
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In the first article in this series I shared my story about confession to so-called “priesthood leaders” and other topics. Today, let’s turn to speaking about sexual values directly. The need for a moral framework It’s impossible to properly reason…
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Most of this blog has been quite focused on what “the truth” is, and the nature of religious experiences. However, after a recent gathering of secular “ex-Mormons” that I attended in Canberra, and several other discussions with various people over…
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