Finding Love, Unity, and Inclusion in Christ — June 25th, 2023, Sacrament Meeting Talk

The following is a sermon or "talk" which I delivered to the Longfellow Park YSA Latter-day Saint ward, located Boston, Massachusetts, on June 25th, 2023.

The Realities of Love

When we conflate the realities we live by with the larger reality which pervades any attempt to confine it within the subjective, we’ll ultimately reach a place where the actions of others appear as misguided, if not cruel, and misleading, if not also unloving. Here, love consists of more than just intent, but impact and relationship as well. What is offered in love by one will be but a partial love, at best, if it isn’t received as such. 

Coming Out to Elder Holland: The Testimony of a Bisexual Latter-day Saint

A letter sent to Elder Jeffrey R. Holland following his BYU Annual Conference address, "The Second Half of the Second Century", delivered on August 23rd, 2021. With some slight alterations, I have made the personal decision to share it here as well. The expressed views represent only my own.

Tabernacles, Temples, and Transgender Saints

The example of the Provo City Center Temple highlights the often unrecognized ways in which transgender individuals have been a wonderful blessing to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and are an essential part of the Body of Christ.

“Use a Little Craftiness and Seal All [We] Can”

Full-inclusion of our LGBTQ+ and gender-expansive siblings may be seen as a bridge too far; a place that we simply can't go given how entrenched and frequent teachings espousing a heteronormative Plan of Salvation have been from those we hold to be inspired Church leaders. Fortunately, we have established precedent in Church history for re-envisioning the cosmos in such a dramatic way.

I Accepted President Nelson’s BYU Devotional Challenge and Here’s What Happened…

I was on my mission when the November 5th Policy was reversed. I still remember what it felt like, mere minutes after it had been announced online. It was already dark in Armenia due to the time difference and my companion and I were just wrapping up some computer work. When I read the headline,...