by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Jul 20, 2016 | Family, Featured, Marriage |
Twenty years ago today, the only grown woman to ever see my grown, naked body saw it for the first time and she didn’t run away (I’m a hairy dude). There is evidence that this occurred at least two other times as we now have two brilliant daughters....
by Jacob Baker | Jul 5, 2016 | Compassion, exclusion-policy, Family, Featured, Fellowship, Homosexuality, Humanity, LGBTQ, Poetry |
A poem that observes the limits of communities and institutions in being willing or able to include the suffering and even the existence of those who find themselves on the margins of their borders. Dedicated in particular to those who are grieving in the wake of...
by Jonathan Cannon | Jun 20, 2016 | Book of Mormon, Family, Featured, scripture |
Sharing the Book of Mormon with my kids I read a lot to my kids. But it can be really hard to share the scriptures with them. The LDS church released picture books of the scriptures are ok, but the style of the pictures is very uniform and the action uninteresting,...
by Azul Uribe | Jun 13, 2016 | Church, decisions, Family, Featured, Homosexuality, Immigration, LGBTQ, Racism, Radical Compassion |
I have avoided social media for most of my day. Originally I had written an entire post about the Church’s push for legislation here in Mexico- Enrique Peña Nieto decided to make gay marriage legal in the entire country. The way it currently works here (in Mexico) is...
by David Bokovoy | Apr 30, 2016 | Family, Featured, Homosexuality, LGBTQ |
I have four children–three girls and one boy. Last week our family enjoyed a beautiful experience. My oldest daughter, a returned LDS missionary who served in Chile, married a wonderful young man in the temple. As a father, I cannot express how much joy I felt...
by Michelle Wiener | Apr 27, 2016 | Agency, Church, Compassion, decisions, Disagreement, Education, Faith, faith crisis, Faith Crisis, Family, Featured, Feminism, Heavenly Mother, Honesty, Humanity, Individuality, Interviews, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Modesty, Obedience, parenting, Priesthood, Relief Society, Savior, scripture, spirituality, Temple, Truth, Worthiness, Young Womens |
Imagine having to submit yourself to a form of Christian Patriarchy minus “the Priesthood,” and you have the beginnings of Vyckie Garrison’s story. “I am not really good at submission,” Garrison explained to the Charlotte Atheists and Agnostics group at the Concord...
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