by Jacob Baker | May 12, 2016 | Education, Faith, Faith Crisis, Featured, infallibility, Theology |
In James Smith’s How (Not) to Be Secular–his interpretive summary of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age–he notes that, while the causes and reasons for a loss of faith or belief are numerous, most people who embrace scientific materialism over religion do so because of...
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...
by Daniel Lewis | Apr 26, 2016 | Atonement, Church, Faith, Featured, Forgiveness, Leadership, Priesthood, prophecy, Repentance, Revelation, scripture, Wentworth letter |
In 1842 Joseph Smith wrote a letter to John Wentworth who was the editor of the “Chicago Democrat”, the first newspaper in Chicago. In addition to a condensed history of the Church, Joseph answers Mr. Wentworth’s Question about the beliefs of the Mormons. His answer...
by Jeremy Timothy | Mar 7, 2016 | Activism, Church, Compassion, exclusion-policy, Faith, Featured, Homosexuality, Humanity, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Mormonism, Policy, Service, spirituality |
Depression and suicide have made their rounds in the Mormon blogosphere of late, particularly in regard to the issue of homosexuality in Mormonism. For me, this is a subject that hits home because, you see, I suffer from depression. It’s taken me a while to...
by Michelle Wiener | Feb 24, 2016 | Activism, Agency, Apologetics, Atonement, Bible Scholarship, Book of Mormon, Charity, Church, Church History, Compassion, Corporate Church, covenants, decisions, Disagreement, Education, Faith, faith crisis, Faith Crisis, Family, Featured, Fellowship, Feminism, General authorities, Heavenly Mother, History, Honesty, Individuality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Leadership, Mormonism, Mother in Heaven, Old Testament, Policy, prophecy, Prophets, Relief Society, restoration, Revelation, Savior, scripture, spirituality, Symbolism, The Holy ghost, Theology, Truth, unity, Why I Am Mormon, Young Womens |
To Presidents Oscarson, McConkie, and Marriott of the General Young Women’s Presidency: Once a month, the Young Women join us at the beginning of Relief Society, as we all recite in unison the Young Women’s Theme; which begins, “We are daughters of our Heavenly...
by Janan Graham-Russell | Jan 6, 2016 | Faith, Featured, Jesus Christ, Theology |
I admittedly took my sweet time to sit down and watch Ex Machina. I had heard mixed reviews, but I was interested in the science fiction aspect of the story. In one of the film’s more memorable scenes, the character Ava asks Caleb: “Are you a good person?” Caleb...
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