by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Feb 2, 2015 | Featured, Homosexuality, Repentance |
Dear Queer Mormons, We are So So Sorry. We realize that it is not within our stewardship to apologize for or in behalf of the institution that is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, however institutions are cold things bogged down in bureaucracy. Our...
by Jessica Finnigan | Jan 30, 2015 | Agency, Bible Scholarship, Charity, Faith, Featured, Forgiveness, General authorities, Honesty, Humanity, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Lying, Mormonism, New Testament, Old Testament, parenting, Savior, scripture, Truth |
I normally have multiple people edit the tone of my blog posts, but today I am going raw. This is the uncut, uncensored version straight out of my aching heart. I wrote a blog post titled: Christ is Not Leading a Petty Church. And I want to expand on those ideas, by...
by James Patterson | Jan 28, 2015 | Featured, Uncategorized |
The other day my 6-year-old son came to me in tears, recounting the story of how he was – for the first time in his short time in the public education system – called a nasty name by a schoolmate. That wasn’t the thing that bothered me. Kids are going to call him...
by Daniel Lewis | Jan 27, 2015 | Featured, Mormon Humor, Priesthood, Service |
At a recent stake conference, I was asked to be a parking attendant. Actually, I wasn’t given a title, I wasn’t even told what to do or how to do it. The assignment came through my High Priest Group Leader, who informed us that Stake Leaders had asked for...
by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Jan 26, 2015 | Compassion, Featured, Homosexuality, Humanity, Theology |
The other day my wife asked me to do some, um, manly things around the house. First on the list was to tighten up the p-trap under the utility sink in the garage. I loosened up the p-trap, lined up the threads of the tightening nut, and hand tightened it. To make...
by Brian D. | Jan 23, 2015 | Book Reviews, Featured, Humanity, Theology |
The LDS apostasy narrative, of the truth being lost and priesthood authority being taken from the earth after the death of the New Testament apostles, has been a fundamental part of the Mormon story. For some investigators and many chapel Mormons the narrative makes...
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