by Jared Mooney | Jan 2, 2014 | Agency, Charity, Faith, Faith Crisis, Featured, Feminism, Forgiveness, Gospel Topics, Infertility, LDS Church History, LDS Missions, Mormonism, Repentance, Revelation, Temple, Theology, Transhumanism |
Most of my Mormon friends aren’t actively involved with the church. More than half of my core group of friends from high school haven’t participated since college. A surprising number of the friends I made on my mission and at BYU are now disenfranchised...
by Corbin Volluz | Dec 18, 2013 | Featured, Gospel Topics, Mormonism, News, Priesthood, Racism, Revelation, Theology |
Observant Mormons are urged to speak no ill of the Lord’s anointed, which is generally understood to be the leadership of the Church. Elder Dallin H. Oaks expanded on this in the February 1987 Ensign where he taught that Latter-day Saints should not criticize Church...
by Merina Smith | Dec 18, 2013 | Featured, LDS Church History, Polygamy, Theology |
Joseph Smith and the Resacralization of Marriage By Dr. Merina Smith, author of, Revelation, Resistance, and Polygamy: The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle The religious movements that grew out of the Second Great Awakening, Mormonism...
by EOR | Dec 11, 2013 | Faith, Featured, Gospel Topics, Mormonism, Old Testament, Revelation, Theology |
I don’t know of anyone who is part of any religious community who sometimes doesn’t suffer from the phenomenon of Holy Envy. This can sometimes come from a practice or belief you wish your particular faith community embraced or it can come from something as simple as...
by Corbin Volluz | Dec 10, 2013 | Agency, Book of Mormon, Faith, Featured, Gospel Topics, Revelation, Standard Works, Theology |
The opening pages of the Book of Mormon confront us with the most problematic story in the entire book—the murder of a defenseless Laban by a sword-wielding Nephi. (1 Nephi 4) We all know the story. Nephi has been commanded by God (through his prophet-father Lehi)...
by Viliami | Dec 7, 2013 | Featured, LDS Church History, Priesthood, Racism, Revelation, Theology, Uncategorized |
Race and the Priesthood by Viliami Pauni December 6, 2013 a link to a Church web page appeared in my Facebook news feed that dealt with “Race and the Priesthood.”1 I stared at the link and hoped. As I read through it the first time I was deeply moved. As I read...
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