This term I began studying Biblical Hebrew. Languages do not come easily to me. I devised a plan to motivate my study- rekindle my love of Judaism. I have been amazed by how much my heart sang within the richness of Jewish thought and the scriptural and life lessons that have filled my reading. The books have...
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I first read The Hole in our Gospel, by Richard E Stearns in the spring of 2011. It was highly recommended to me with the amazing promise of how it would change my perception of the scriptures and my place in the world. But it also came with the warning that it would make me angry and frustrated. Both of her predictions turned...
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Eternity, when put into proper perspective, is a most terrifying concept. As a child, my sister would occasionally suffer from late-night bouts of anxiety as her young, imaginative mind contemplated what we might refer to as “the eternities.” “I don’t want to go to Heaven!” she would sob desperately, tears streaming down...
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“Impossible is Nothing,” it said. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential....
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Growing up in the church I was taught that revelations and doctrines build upon one another in a linear upward path, “line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little”. Not only do doctrines build upon one another, but they also don’t contradict one another and have always been the same because they are...
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A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 By Patty Williams (mother) – “A Midwife’s Tale” does not read like a novel. It is a factual account of the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary. I was not immediately drawn into this book, but it won the Pulitzer Prize, so it...
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The first time I read “The Hero’s Journey of the Gay and Lesbian Mormon” by Carol Lynn Pearson, I was sitting in the chapel of my ward building, waiting for a meeting to start. I’d been in somewhat of a bad mood for most of the day and I started reading it to avoid talking to anyone. The book is a...
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A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to attend a baptism of a new convert to the LDS church. Adult baptisms almost always make me weepy, because it’s so beautiful to see an adult freely choose to take upon them the name of Jesus Christ and become a Christian. At this baptism, our bishop spoke to the woman who was...
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Goodbye, I Love You tells the true story of a wife and mother whose husband admits to a homosexual lifestyle that eventually dissolves their marriage. Though she doesn’t understand it, she finally accepts it and continues to love and support him. Carol Lynn Pearson is a fourth generation Mormon. She wanted an eternal marriage....
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Carol Lynn Pearson stated that it was her husband’s determination that laid the foundation of her career. He loved her poems, and took them to various publishers only to be told “poetry doesn’t sell.” Borrowing money, her husband Gerald published two thousand copies of the book titled “Beginnings”. The book buyer for...
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“For the Body is Not One Member, But Many” – 1 Corinthians 1:14
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