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For six and a half years, an entire generation of young women went unnamed.

To the unnamed girls

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The Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association (JMSSA) is accepting submissions for a special issue exploring the intersection of Mormon traditions and digital platforms.

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The Church, Sexual Abuse, and Insurance To be completely transparent, I'm struggling to figure out how to open this blog post. Basically, on Tuesday, the Tenth Circuit published an opinion in a lawsuit the Church filed.... https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/07/31/the-church-sexual-abuse-and-insurance/

The Church, Sexual Abuse, and Insurance

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Review of Natalie Brown’s After Happiness If we believe the ancient Greek historian Herodotus (and there is good reason to be skeptical), King Croesus of Lydia once asked the Athenian lawgiver, Solon, to name the happiest person in the world.... https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/07/29/review-of-natalie-browns-after-happiness/

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Hot Take: We Need to Avoid Christolatry “Christolatry” is not a term used very often in the Church. So, let’s start with a definition.... https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/07/28/hot-take-we-need-to-avoid-christolatry/

Hot Take: We Need to Avoid Christolatry

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Biblical History Through the Lens of Deuteronomy and Chronicles To start, this isn’t going to be a post history, or about Deuteronomy, or about Chronicles. This is a post about storytelling.... https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/07/25/biblicalhistorydeuteronomychronicles/

Biblical History Through the Lens of Deuteronomy and Chronicles

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Pioneer Day Stories as an Act of Mythmaking Today is Pioneer Day. In some parts of the Intermountain West, Pioneer Day is an actual holiday.... https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/07/24/pioneer-day-stories-as-an-act-of-mythmaking/

Pioneer Day Stories as an Act of Mythmaking

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Hymn Practice On April 16, 1830---10 days after the Church was formally organized---Joseph Smith received a revelation directed to his wife Emma.... https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/07/23/hymn-practice/

Hymn Practice

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LDS Terms of Venery (Just For fun) I think collective nouns (also called “terms of venery”) are really fun. There are some that are commonly used: a herd of cows, a gaggle of geese, a flock of birds, a school of fish, or a deck of cards.... https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/07/21/lds-terms-of-venery-just-for-fun/

LDS Terms of Venery (Just For fun)

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Tilting at Windmills For the first time, I’m making my way through Cervantes’ Don Quixote (for the book nerds out there, I’m reading the Edith Grossman translation).... https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/07/19/tilting-at-windmills/

Tilting at Windmills

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Temple Changes, Covenant Changes? I've delayed this post for a while, mostly because I was worried that people would think I was being either flippant or disrespectful (or both).... https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/07/13/temple-changes-covenant-changes/

Temple Changes, Covenant Changes?

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Hope and the Unfulfilled Promise of America From the Obama Presidential Center Today marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the beginning of the American experiment.... https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/07/04/hope-and-the-unfulfilled-promise-of-america/

Hope and the Unfulfilled Promise of America

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On (Not) Losing Our (Civil) Religion On April 3, 1890, in Lehi, Utah, my maternal great-great-grandmother, Martha Mercer Kirkham, joined with other women to form a local chapter of the…... https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/07/04/on-not-losing-our-civil-religion/

On (Not) Losing Our (Civil) Religion

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Ancient Vs. Modern Temples There is no doubt that LDS folks see themselves as ‘temple builders.’ It’s a core part of LDS identity.... https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/06/25/ancient-vs-modern-temples/

Ancient Vs. Modern Temples

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The Church and Its Much-Needed Apology The Church needs to apologize for its history of discrimination against Black people. Full stop. There's explanation and strategy, and I'll get into those in a minute....

The Church and Its Much-Needed Apology

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Let’s settle this LDS grammar problem once and for all… Is it “return missionary” or “returned missionary”? Show your work. https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/06/09/lets-settle-this-lds-grammar-problem-once-and-for-all/

Let’s settle this LDS grammar problem once and for all…

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Funeral Plans? Perhaps because I’m getting older, I’ve started to think about what my “end of life” celebration/service might look like.... https://bycommonconsent.com/2026/06/07/funeral-plans/

Funeral Plans?