by Jason L | Aug 30, 2016 | Charity, Church History, Compassion, Excommunication, Featured |
In church lessons and talks, we often hold up the stories of Mormon expulsion – from New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Nauvoo – as moral lessons about brave pioneer ancestors following prophets, keeping covenants, and being preserved by the hand of the Lord....
by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Aug 16, 2016 | Church History, Featured, Immigration, LDS Church History |
Most of you are familiar with Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim proposal from December 2015: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going...
by Jared Mooney | Jul 7, 2016 | Church History, Corporate Church, decisions, Disagreement, faith crisis, Faith Crisis, Featured, Individuality, Mormonism, spirituality |
Those who have followed my posts here might know that I have had the benefit of a long and slow faith crisis… spread out over 20 years, since the beginning of High School to my recent decision to stop participating in the church for the foreseeable future....
by John Dinger | Jun 6, 2016 | Church History, Featured, Joseph Smith |
For decades historians, apologists, and anti-Mormons have been debating this very question: was Joseph Smith ever convicted of a crime? While there have been discussions on this topic since the beginnings of Mormonism, the debate really got started in the 1970s....
by Dr. Warner Woodworth | Apr 6, 2016 | Church History, Featured, Politics |
On Friday, March 18, 2016 I was up at This is the Place Heritage Park in the mountains above Salt Lake City, Utah attending the huge 14,000 person rally to hear Bernie Sanders speak. It was awesome, and a clear contrast to many Utah voters’ positions. Sanders, of...
by Benjamin Knoll | Apr 5, 2016 | Church, Church History, Featured, History, Theology |
If you haven’t read Diana Butler Bass, you should. Bass has a story that should resonate strongly with many in the Rational Faiths audience. She was raised in an active church-going Methodist family and converted to conservative Evangelical Protestantism in her teens....
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