Tag Archives: Guilt

Dear Bishop Blog #4 – Confessions of a Liar

There’s nothing like finishing out the year on a post-repentance high! Time to confess my sins. My skill and proclivity for lying are my focus today. I’m sorry, Bishop, that I’m a lair.  The gravest of my lies were told … Continue reading

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Dear Bishop Blog # 3 – Random Confessions

Time for some random confessions.  I’m jonesing for that fix that can only come from a post-repentance high. Dear Bishop: Am I racist, Bishop?  I’m really attracted to Caucasians with Asian-looking eyes, but to Asians with more rounded eyes. I … Continue reading

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Sexual Unhappiness is a Religiously Transmitted Disease

I was right! Well, let me rephrase that… What I suspected regarding sex, porn and masturbation (and previously posted here, here and here) has been confirmed in several respects by a recent study by Dr. Darrel W. Ray, director of … Continue reading

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Divorce Guilt

Anyone who is divorced with children knows exactly what I’m talking about. For those of you more fortunate among us who have never been tormented so, let me explain… Divorce Guilt doesn’t refer to feeling bad about what you may … Continue reading

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Dear Bishop Blog #2 – 10 Random Confessions

Six months ago I posted my first confessional of all my terribly grave gay post-Mormon Dad sins. It seems about twice a year I have my own Spooky Mormon Hell Dream and I need to bow my head in shame … Continue reading

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Dear Bishop Blog

Dear Bishop, I wrote earlier about the shame and guilt I felt growing up in Mormonism.  But there was a plus side to it too:  Repentance!  I don’t mean the actual process of repentance but the feeling that came afterward;  … Continue reading

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