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No offense, but…

Jun 19, 13 No offense, but…

Posted by in Agency, Charity, Featured, Gospel Topics, Mormonism

I know the topic of giving and receiving offense has been thoroughly combed over in other forums, but it is such an important topic that I believe a great deal of the major points bear repeating. I want to particularly address judgment, hypocrisy, and the fauxpology. I believe that these three things (separately or combined) are...

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Big Announcement SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!

Jun 18, 13 Big Announcement SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!

Posted by in Featured, News

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!! (Using my monster truck voice) Everyone ready for the big announcement this Sunday? Have you started guessing what the meeting will be about? Is it going to be service missions? Is it going to be about lowering the sister missionary age? Will it be announced that the sister missionaries can serve for 2 years?...

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Our Own Tent: Girls’ Camp, Losing my Pants, and Finding my Truth

Jun 18, 13 Our Own Tent: Girls’ Camp, Losing my Pants, and Finding my Truth

Posted by in Featured, Mormonism

It sounds so zen: losing my pants helped me find myself. I felt guilty, zipped snug inside my tent wearing a short thin nightgown, with the lack of covering for my bottom half bringing such a reprieve. You see, due to a forgotten suitcase and an incident with the lake and a zip-line, the one pair of jeans I’d brought to girls’...

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Our Eternal Parents – A belief statement in the vein of The Living Christ

From time to time, the LDS church has issued belief statements on various topics, most notably in recent memory, The Family: A Proclamation to the World and The Living Christ. A couple of years ago, I realized that a belief statement on the nature and attributes of God was conspicuously missing from the line-up and I began to...

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The Inclusivity of Mormon Weddings: A Prayer for Change

Jun 16, 13 The Inclusivity of Mormon Weddings:  A Prayer for Change

Posted by in Featured, Temple

The Inclusivity of Mormon Weddings: A Prayer for Change by Michael Barker I consider myself well-read in regards to Mormon thought, theology, and history. Yet, as embarrassed as I am to say, it was not until last year that I realized that the majority of the countries where our Church is established, the temple sealing is a separate...

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Disability and Human Potential

Jun 14, 13 Disability and Human Potential

Posted by in Disability, Featured, Mental Health

I work up close and personal with disability every day. When people found I was going into child neurology their first question was often, “why?” I often hear about how it’s too sad or too depressing. Fellow physicians struggle with the fact that there often isn’t anything we can do to fix many disorders of...

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25 Things You’re Doing Wrong

Jun 13, 13 25 Things You’re Doing Wrong

Posted by in Agency, Faith Crisis, Featured

I have family and friends that are either in the midst of a faith crisis or have passed through their crisis and now find themselves outside of the Church.   As I have spoken with them and listened to others’ stories about their faith transitions, I have taken mental notes of what seems to help and what doesn’t  help....

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Letter from a Doubter to a Believer

Jun 12, 13 Letter from a Doubter to a Believer

Posted by in Faith, Faith Crisis, Featured, Mormonism

Before we get to the letter: And it came to pass that the internet was born, and over time, blogs sprung forth. Without these blogs, one could feel very alone in their Mormon struggle and desire for acceptance. I suppose the “fish out of water” analogy would apply here. Blogs like Rational Faiths provide a fishbowl for the...

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The Messy History of Joseph Smith’s Bible Revision

The “Joseph Smith Bible Revision” (JSBR) — generally known as the “Joseph Smith Translation” (JST) in the Utah Mormon tradition and the “Inspired Version” (IV) in the RLDS/Community of Christ tradition — has a somewhat messy history.[1] The work was considered a top priority of Joseph...

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The Grown-up Modesty Line

Jun 10, 13 The Grown-up Modesty Line

Posted by in Featured, Modesty

After I read this fantastic post I started thinking again about modesty in the context of our lives as Latter-day Saints. Heaven knows, the Mormon blogosphere has been fascinated with the subject for some time now, but for the sake of the conversation, and partly to underscore how absurd it seems to be to focus on tank tops or...

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Temple Weddings – The Heart of the Matter.

Jun 09, 13 Temple Weddings – The Heart of the Matter.

Posted by in Featured, Mormonism, Temple

In 1968 I immigrated to Canada from England where I had joined the LDS Church the previous year. I was 24 years old and so completely enamored by the idea of being with the Saints in North America that I left my parents and family, taking my two little boys I joined my husband in Ontario. I thought that I could learn how to be a...

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The Monopoly on Righteousness

Jun 07, 13 The Monopoly on Righteousness

Posted by in Featured, Mormonism

  There seems to be a pervasive theme among the Mormon culture.  It is not overtly outspoken (I think because there is no way to say it without really sounding like a jerk), but it is there in the underbelly of many Gospel Doctrine classes.  The idea is that Mormons have the monopoly on righteousness, on truth, on access to...

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