LDS Gospel Topics Faith

Of Pride and Prophets

by J | May 25, 2015 | Blogs about Blogs, Faith, Featured, General authorities, Individuality, Obedience, Revelation, Truth, unity | 8 comments

People like me get called prideful all the time by our fellow Mormons. It gets old, to say the least. This accusation came up again in the discussion of a blog post titled “How to stay Mormon when you’re tired of Mormons,” which has been making the rounds on the...

Missing Grace

by Corbin Volluz | May 12, 2015 | Atonement, Book of Mormon, Faith, Featured, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Savior | 75 comments

Salvation by grace is all over the Book of Mormon like white on rice. And by grace, I don’t mean the modern Mormon misconception of a little dollop doled out by God after we have done everything we can possibly do. I mean the superabundance of grace God gives us to be...

Fairytale Life

by Carrie Marsh | Apr 23, 2015 | Faith, Featured, Mormonism | 1 comment

I write to you after spending three very magical and tiring days in Disneyland. We’ve done princesses and rollercoasters and traumatized our children (the older ones on Tower of Terror, the youngest one on the ladybugs in the Bug’s Life area). Hopefully,...

Wandering and Choosing

by Azul Uribe | Apr 13, 2015 | Faith, Featured, Humanity, Individuality, Jesus Christ | 0 comments

I lost my best friend in Mexico. My best friend who makes a yearly pilgrimage to visit in my exile landed in a plane four hours away from me and I had no way to get a hold of her. Her American cellphone would not work in Mexican soil, and I was a mess. I called the...

Spoken of for a Memorial of Her

by Michelle Wiener | Mar 30, 2015 | Agency, Apologetics, Atonement, Bible Scholarship, Charity, Compassion, Education, Faith, Faith Crisis, Family, Featured, Feminism, General Conference, Gospel Topics, Heavenly Mother, History, Honesty, Individuality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mormonism, Mother in Heaven, New Testament, Priesthood, Radical Compassion, Relief Society, Revelation, Sacrament, Savior, scripture, Service, Sexuality, Standard Works, Symbolism, Temple, The Holy ghost, Theology, Truth, unity, Why I Am Mormon | 4 comments

“Symbolic language conceals certain doctrinal truths from the wicked and thereby protects sacred things from possible ridicule. At the same time, symbols reveal truth to the spiritually alert.” (1) Women are not allowed to preside over the Sacrament; yet the Sacred...

A March Madness Metaphor

by J | Mar 23, 2015 | Faith, Faith Crisis, Featured, General authorities, Obedience, Priesthood, unity | 3 comments

A certain woman was a big fan of her Alma Mater’s basketball team. The team had many winning seasons and were regularly invited to participate in the post season. The woman loved the coach. She trusted him completely and supported him, even through the lost...

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