Thomas Riskas

Thomas Riskas served for 20 years as a member in good standing in various teaching and leadership roles as an Elder, Seventy and High Priest in the Mormon priesthood; experiences that provided him, along with his own extensive personal study and experiences in the faith, with the needed grounding show more in Mormon history, doctrine, religious practice, and culture to author this work. Since his formal resignation from the Mormon Church in 2002, the author considers himself a naturalist and secular humanist, entirely without belief in any gods or the supernatural. His personal passions are the study and therapeutic practice of philosophy and psychoanalysis in both his personal life and professional work as a lecturer, writer and organizational psychologist and consultant. show less