• About
    • About RationalFaiths
    • Blog Calendar
    • Blog With Us
    • PermaBloggers
    • The Podcast
  • Buy a Bumper Sticker
  • Contact Us
  • Recommended Reads
Rational Faiths | Mormon Blog
  • Podcast
    • Ask a Mormon Lesbian
    • Ask The Mormon Sex Therapist
    • Racism 101
    • The CES Podcast (For The Rest of Us)
  • Poetry
  • News
  • Mormon Humor
  • Reviews
    • Book Reviews
    • TV Reviews
  • Why I Am Mormon
  • Standard Works
    • Old Testament
    • New Testament
    • Book of Mormon
    • Doctrine and Covenants
    • Pearl of Great Price
  • Mormonism
    • Mother in Heaven
    • Temple
    • Faith Crisis
    • LDS Missions
    • Feminism
    • Gay Sunday
    • Infertility
    • Blogs about Blogs
    • Sexuality
    • Polygamy
    • Homosexuality
    • LDS Church History
  • Gospel Topics
    • Priesthood
    • Modesty
    • Natural Theology
    • Charity
    • Forgiveness
    • Heavenly Mother
    • Transhumanism
    • Mental Health
    • Disability
    • Sacrament
    • Repentance
    • Sunday School
    • Revelation
    • Faith
    • Agency
    • Theology
Select Page
Atonement Theory

Atonement Theory

by Viliami | Sep 1, 2014 | Atonement, Charity, Featured, Forgiveness, Repentance, Theology | 17 comments

For years I’ve struggled to understand what the atonement is and how it works. This post is the byproduct of those mental and spiritual struggles. The short length of this post is intentional and took an incredible amount of humility and restraint. What...
The Prodigal Son

The Prodigal Son

by Carrie Marsh | Mar 27, 2014 | Agency, Atonement, Compassion, Featured, Forgiveness, Mother in Heaven, New Testament, Repentance | 2 comments

Our ward recently had stake conference and in Relief Society we were given a lesson on The Prodigal Son by our stake president.  It was a wonderful lesson and I was touched by the words and thoughts that were shared by my wonderful stake president and members of my...
The Stranger Started From Disguise: Circumstance and Divine Identity

The Stranger Started From Disguise: Circumstance and Divine Identity

by Emily Spencer | Mar 15, 2014 | Agency, Charity, Compassion, Disability, Faith, Featured, Mental Health, Repentance, Service | 6 comments

Based on actual events. Shared with permission. I’ll never forget the morning I got that surprise knock at my door. I wondered who it would be, since the clock hadn’t even yet chimed nine o’clock. I opened the door, and there she stood on my porch, her hair wrapped up...
The Dangerous Doctrine of Christ

The Dangerous Doctrine of Christ

by Jared Mooney | Mar 6, 2014 | Atonement, Charity, Faith, Featured, Gospel Topics, Mormonism, New Testament, Obedience, Repentance, Revelation, Theology | 2 comments

Saul of Tarsus was a devout Pharisaic Jew who was born a citizen of the Roman Empire. He spoke fluent Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic. He was educated at the feet of Gamaliel, a revered doctor of the Law and the Prophets. Upon his conversion to Christianity, Saul,...
So you say you want a Revolution

So you say you want a Revolution

by Jeremy Timothy | Feb 20, 2014 | Black Mormon History Month, Doctrine and Covenants, Featured, Feminism, Forgiveness, Mormonism, Racism, Repentance | 34 comments

“ We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.” Doctrine & Covenants 121:39 Few things in life...
Paradise Within

Paradise Within

by Jessica Finnigan | Feb 10, 2014 | Agency, Atonement, Charity, Faith, Featured, Forgiveness, Mormonism, Obedience, Repentance, Revelation, Sacrament, Standard Works, Sunday School, Theology | 11 comments

Guest Post: Emily Dyson Why are we righteous?  Why do we keep God’s commandments?  To what end? A while ago, I was in a Gospel Doctrine class that was discussing the view of the afterlife laid out in Doctrine and Covenants Section 76.  “The Vision” appeared to...
« Older Entries
Next Entries »

Search RationalFaiths

Make a monthly donation

Payment Options (Alma 11:1-19)

Make a one-time donation

LGBTQ Mormon Crisis


Two Printable handout for bishops and stake presidents that talks empirically about LGBTQ suicides:

The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide

Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis

The Barker Brothers’ Projects

 


These videos were created for Latter-day Saint parents and allies to voice their love for their LGBT brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. They want to give a message of comfort and support to other parents who are navigating the difficult conflicts that can arise in families around this issue.


“Cogito!” (“I think!”) follows the intellectual adventures of a recovering academic outside the walls of academia.

Quote of the Month

"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt." (Fyodor Dostoevsky)


Tweets by @rationalfaiths

Recent Comments

  • Ryan on Rules For Men Who Want To Be Decent Humans
  • Anonymous on When it comes to equality, which side of history are you on?
  • VALSA GEORGE on No Soup for You! Why Women Can’t Have the Priesthood
  • Amanda on Mormon Women Speak: Uncovering The Truth About Ritual Abuse (episode 9; 289)
  • Ryan Jones on We Like Our Heaven Better

Follow Us!

Follow Us on FacebookFollow Us on Google+Follow Us on TwitterFollow Us on RSSFollow Us on iTunes Podcast

Tags

Ask a Mormon Lesbian Ask a Mormon Lesbian Podcast Book of Mormon CES charity Dr. Sheldon Greaves EOR Faith faith crisis feminism Feminist gay general conference Gospel Doctrine Heavenly Mother Historical Jesus homosexuality Institute Jesus Jesus Christ Joseph Smith Laura Root LGBT LGBTQ love modesty Mormon Mormonism Mother in Heaven New Testament Old Testament Ordain Women podcast Polygamy Priesthood racism Racism 101 Revelation Seminary temple The CES Podcast Theology The Weird and Wild Old Testament The Weird and Wild Old Testament Podcast Truth
  • Facebook
  • X
  • RSS

Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress