What is Prayer?

What is Prayer?

I’m not arrogant enough to believe that I’m the first person to ask this kind of question. I’m sure everyone reading this has had these same thoughts. So, help me out here. Help me pin this practice down. I don’t understand why we claim there is power in prayer when...
A Prayer

A Prayer

Dear Lord and God above, My heart is groaning for the world even at it groans now in sin.  More and more we are becoming a world divided.  I pray that we can remember that which you taught us.  At this time, as violence comes upon our shores, with those gunned down in...
Petitioning Heavenly Mother and the Call to Faithful Agitation

Petitioning Heavenly Mother and the Call to Faithful Agitation

As I was reviewing the 1991 Ensign article “Daughters of God” by Gordon B. Hinckley, then First Counselor in the First Presidency, I began to see a correlation between Hinckley’s prohibition against praying to our Mother in Heaven and the later call...