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The Coming Crackdown on Mormon Liberals

Posted on January 19, 2015 · Add Comment

New story at the Daily Beast:

A difficult year for progressive members of the Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS) got harder this week. On Jan. 15, two Mormon dissidents, John Dehlin and April Young Bennett, both members of a critical minority that challenges the church’s positions on issues like women’s ordination or LGBT [...]

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Report: Bob Jones University Responded to Rape Claims with Woeful Ignorance of the Law, Often Blaming Victims

Posted on December 12, 2014 · Add Comment

New story at The American Prospect:

With multiple publications still gleefully dissecting the failures of a recentRolling Stone exposé on campus rape, granting rape skeptics an unusually warm national spotlight, a new report from an unlikely corner of American culture confirms just how real the problems with reporting sex abuse in American [...]

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Home Care in Crisis

Posted on October 9, 2014 · Add Comment

New story at In These Times:

In most industries, it’s not catastrophic when an employee doesn’t show up to work. But last December, a few weeks before Christmas, my mother’s long-time home health aide announced that she had to go on indefinite leave, which left my family reeling. That’s becoming an [...]

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The Rise of Biblical Counseling

Posted on September 2, 2014 · Add Comment

New feature at Pacific Standard:

In March 1979, a 24-year-old Californian named Kenneth Nally took an overdose of his antidepressant medication, Elavil, and waited to die. Unconscious, he was found by his parents and rushed to a San Fernando Valley hospital, where he had his stomach pumped. [...]

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Why Is the Mormon Church Getting Out of the Adoption Business?

Posted on June 23, 2014 · Add Comment

New story at the Daily Beast:

LDS Family Services, a Mormon Church-owned counseling center and adoption agency with nearly 70 offices worldwide, has announced that it is getting out of the adoption business. Not enough young women, they said, are willing to relinquish babies for adoption anymore, and the [...]

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By Grace Alone: The Next Christian Sex-Abuse Scandal

Posted on May 5, 2014 · Add Comment

I have a new investigative story up at The Prospect, profiling the pioneering work of the evangelical organization GRACE:

…The idea that Bob Jones would reach outside itself for help was stunning—especially considering to whom it was reaching out. GRACE was founded by a member of evangelical royalty: Boz Tchividjian (“rhymes [...]

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Livingston Award finalists

Posted on May 1, 2014 · Add Comment

I’m thrilled and deeply honored to have been selected as a finalist for the 2013 Livingston Awards for my November Slate investigation, “Hana’s Story.”

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The Adoption Crusade Targets Indian Country

Posted on February 25, 2014 · Add Comment

New story in The Public Eye: 

On September 23, 2013, a child-custody battle that was nearly five years in the making came to its conclusion in Oklahoma when an Army veteran from the Cherokee Nation, Dusten Brown, handed over his daughter, Veronica, to Matt and Melanie Capobianco, a White couple from [...]

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LGBT Christian College Students Fight For a Voice

Posted on February 14, 2014 · Add Comment

New story at the Daily Beast:

This week, while international LGBT rights advocates continue to spotlight repressive anti-gay policies and violence in Russia, some are focusing their protests closer to home.

Friday morning in Los Angeles, a new LGBT support coalition for Christian college students and alumni, Safety Net, is launching publicly with [...]

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‘Philomena’ Reminds Us That the ‘Baby Scoop Era’ Affected Millions

Posted on February 3, 2014 · Add Comment

New story at RH Reality Check:

“We all knew what it meant when a big car arrived,” says Philomena Lee, the namesake character of the Oscar-nominated film Philomena(starring Judi Dench), which tells the tale of an Irish Catholic mother separated from her son by one of Ireland’s infamous 20th century Magdalene Laundries. The laundries were [...]

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