A Few Thoughts About Mormon Marriage

A Few Thoughts About Mormon Marriage bob mccue October 22, 2005 http://mccue.cc/bob/spirituality.htm Table of Contents Introduction 2 Two’s Company; Three’s A Crowd 2 Fear and Desire 3 The Man’s On Top 4 Where’s The Love? 5 Mormonism Takes Undue Credit 5 Temple Building As An Investment Strategy 6 Divorce 6 Marriage In Traditional Societies v.…

The Problem With Mormon Authority

What follows is a copy of a lightly edited letter I sent earlier today to a respected, liberal Mormon academic. Best regards, bob Dr. *: I have appreciated much of your work, and have not listened to your interview on *. I do, however, have a few things to add to what ** said to…

A Few Therapy Ideas For Recovering Mormons

We may define therapy as a search for value. Abraham Maslow Abstract See http://www.virtualcs.com/blackboard/l… and http://www.spiritualcompetency.com/jh… for a summary of information related to recovery from the kind of spiritual crisis many of us pass through as we leave Mormonism. This is based on the DSM – IV, the manual psychiatrists use to diagnose mental dysfunction. The type…

A Summary Of How Denial Works

I am pulling together my notes on this topic, and am trying to synthesize them into a set of working principles that is short and simple enough for me to remember. I would be grateful to anyone who cares to read this and tell me if they can think of any areas of research that…

The Mormon Shipwreck

A non-Mormon friend asked me the other day how I had found the time I have spent during the past three years to do all of the reading and writing I have done about Mormonism. I explained that people are affected differently by the kind of religious belief transition I have made, but for many…

Michael Quinn’s Mormon Testimony

I recently had the chance to spend some time chatting with Michael Quinn and thought some here might be interested in a brief report. I did not hear anything from him in private that he has not indicated in public, so I can tell you exactly what he said. And, by the way, the first…

Comparative Apologetics

One of the last barriers I had to jump on my way out of Mormonism might be called the “Smart Mormon” hurdle. As one approaches it, the hurdle looks like this: There are so many really smart Mormons who believe Mormonism is “true”. The smart Mormons are much smarter and better educated than I am.…