SALT LAKE CITY, UT (WGHP) The man whose anti-human trafficking work was dramatized in a surprise hit film is now being hit from all sides with allegations and controversy. Tim Ballard, whose work with the group “Operation Underground Railroad” was turned into the film “The Sound of Freedom,” has been accused of sexual misconduct […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has removed articles promoting Tim Ballard and the nonprofit he founded, Operation Underground Railroad (OUR).
When therapist Bonnie Young was a teen, the subject of sexuality was for her, “drenched in fear.” And many of us can probably relate. For many Latter-day Saints growing up in a sexually conservative culture and with a strict law of chastity for all of the goods those things can bring feelings of anxiety, fear, and shame around sexuality may be more the rule rather than the exception. Bonnie’s on a mission to change that, and we think she’s done really important work to do so with her new book, Sex Educated: Letters from a Latter-day Saint Therapist to Her Younger Self. As the title implies, the book is structured as a series of letters, from Bonnie, to herself at various ages, starting as young as ten. It serves as a really useful retrospective, to get into our own minds at various stages of development, and helped remind us that there are really good, constructive, healthy ways to talk about sexuality to kids of any age. That “talk” the one that can produce so much a