Bradley R. Wilcox

They need it.

That's a [laughs] one last example is, um, oh, Brad Wilcox.

That guy will not...

Like, he detests, like, he detests when people just have their head- earbuds in, just walking at their phone, walking across the streets.

Uh, it's people skateboarding on scooters.

You would be amazed y- where people just locked into their technology.

And he just said, "When you're walking around, just smile and look up." And I, I, I remember hearing that, and then the next day, I'm on my phone, literally preparing for the podcast, listening to the Hank and John's podcast, and somebody says hi to me, and I kinda spaced it, and it was Brad Wilcox.

It was Br- literally the day before, I was listening to one of his firesides, and I did the very thing that he told me not to do.

So when we promote... unchristian behavior, and you get more unchristian behavior, then we turn around and say, wait, why did we get all this unchristian behavior? Because you promoted it, because you were constantly promoting it, and because there are people who, and just maybe, maybe, just maybe, and this is going to sound crazy, a real thought crime, scalding hot thought crime here, flaming hot take, what if the Christian standards were in place because they work? What if Christianity is real and the reason that it worked for 2,000 years is because those standards actually set up a better and more successful society?

So this is from Brad Wilcox, my latest for The Atlantic.

Religion frequently gets a bad rap in our public conversation about sex, yet in an atomized, individualistic age, faith has turned out to be one of the few institutions still nurturing one of the most powerful expressions of human intimacy.

Throw up 27.

And that is when I first realized who I was and who I wanted to be and what I wanted to stand up for and whose I was.

And I love that quote from Brad Wilcox.

It's not enough to know who you are, but whose you are.

I'm like, oh, I am a daughter of God.

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General Authority Kyle McKay and Brad Wilcox over racist remarks in a 2023 BYU study of ongoing discrimination, and notes that Latter-day Saints show the highest support among Christma- Christian groups, 60%, for the idea that diversity strengthens America.

But when it comes down to it, we aren't doing anything about it.

And you wanna know why? I know why.

Uh, thank you so much for sharing that.

I, um, stood with another guest of yours, Dr. Brad Wilcox, a couple of months ago-

Mm-hmm

... at a place called the Johnson Home, which was-

Thank you, uh, again for having me on, and, uh, see you soon.

Sounds good.

I'm so grateful for all the people who are willing to help us as Rabbi Grover has and all of our other guests this, this week in this episode.

Now let's join Dr. John Howell as we talk about Isaiah 54.

Hey, Outer Snarkness.

A question: Would you rather do Mormon Stories intoxicated but speak truth, or bear your testimony in one ward that you support everything Brad Wilcox has ever said? Megan, I'll let you go first.

Oh, I c- I could not attest to Brad Wilcox.

I would have to do Mormon Stories intoxicated.

[laughs]

But just not making assumptions is a huge one and asking questions.

One quote that I wanted to share with you, because I couldn't find quotes from our church leaders specifically, but I had a conversation with Brad Wilcox a few years ago when I was helping them pray in Avenue for Charlotte and others with disabilities.

And something that he said stood out to me.

He apologized and said, I'm not experienced with special needs.

Hmm.

And then you had, we have Brad Wilcox today, has a really famous talk called His Grace is Sufficient, and they're really trying to undo and undermine this very rich LDS prophetic tradition of teaching that salvation is, in the most robust sense, a merit system, that we're earning, qualifying for, being worthy of the s- the celestial kingdom, you know, the exaltation.

The neo-orthodoxy movement or the accommodationism stream really is trying to say it's not about merit.

There's still, there's still a works-based system there structurally, but they're really trying to go heavy into evangelical grace rhetoric.

And this is why I wanted to share this.

Brad Wilcox is the one who shared this at his Twitter.

And it says, this is from an article written at The Atlantic.

It's Brad Wilcox and someone else wrote this at The Atlantic.

And here's a quote from it.

No group of Americans seems to be having more sex and more satisfying sex than married men and women