PinnedJon OgdeninThoughts And Ideas11 Wise Books to Read Before You DieWhat would you add?·10 min read·Sep 5, 2021--8--8
Jon Ogden“Keep Sweet” Unveils the Hidden Horror of PolitenessUtah still has a “keep sweet” problem·4 min read·Jul 3, 2022--1--1
Jon OgdenMLK’s Faith Crisis Sparked His Fight For Justice“More and more I could see a gap between what I had learned in Sunday school and what I was learning in college.”·4 min read·Jan 17, 2022----
Jon OgdeninInterfaith Now“Spiritual But Not Religious” Is Not EnoughToo many are falling prey to conspirituality·5 min read·Jan 4, 2022--23--23
Jon OgdenAn Open Letter to Charles Eisenstein About Covid and VaccinesDear Charles — Here are two things that could persuade me.5 min read·Nov 12, 2021--7--7
Jon OgdeninAge of AwarenessOne to Zero: What Capitalism Ignores, and How to Build the FutureIn his book Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Facebook investor Peter Thiel argues that founders should build…5 min read·Oct 14, 2021--3--3
Jon OgdeninBackyard ChurchBelief in Sad Christian Heaven Hurts Your RelationshipsForget a future “solemn separation.” Choose each other now.·4 min read·Sep 23, 2021--1--1
Jon OgdenMy family has been LDS for 200 years. That’s 1/1000 of my human past.A Meditation on Evolution and Purpose8 min read·Feb 4, 2021--3--3
Jon OgdenA Response to Latter-day Saint Trump ApologistsTwo weeks ago, I wrote a letter that got far more attention than I expected. The response was almost uniformly positive, but I also…12 min read·Oct 29, 2020----
Jon OgdenA Letter to Trump-supporting Latter-day SaintsGrowing up in Utah County during the nineties, I couldn’t hear the end of Bill Clinton’s sex scandal in the White House. It was one of the…13 min read·Oct 13, 2020--18--18