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“To those who in their turn selectively handle Mormon history and discourage our probing it in a number of areas, one needs to say (or at least to ask): Haven鈥檛 we been, if anything, overly cautious, overly mistrustful, overly condescending to a membership and a public who are far more perceptive and discerning than we often give them credit for? Haven鈥檛 we, in our care not to offend a soul or cause anyone the least misunderstanding, too much deprived such individuals of needful occasions for personal growth and more in-depth life-probing experience? In our neurotic cautiousness, our fear of venturing, haven鈥檛 we often settled for an all-too-shallow and confining common denominator that insults the very Intelligence we presume to glorify and is also dishonest because, deep down, we all know better (to the extent that we do)? Isn鈥檛 our intervention often too arbitrary, reflecting the hasty, uninformed reaction of only one or a couple of influential objectors? Don鈥檛 we in the process too severely and needlessly test the loyalty and respect of and lose credibility with many more than we imagine? Isn鈥檛 there a tendency among us, bred by the fear of displeasing, to avoid healthy self-disclosure鈥攑ublic or private鈥攁nd to pretend about ourselves to ourselves and others? Doesn鈥檛 this in turn breed loneliness and make us, more than it should, strangers to each other? And when we are too calculating, too self-conscious, too mistrustful, too prescriptive, and too regimental about our roots and about one another鈥檚 aesthetic, intellectual, and spiritual life, aren鈥檛 we self-defeating?”
― Thomas F. Rogers, Let Your Hearts and Minds Expand: Reflections on Faith, Reason, Charity, and Beauty