by Benjamin Knoll | Jul 6, 2017 | Book Reviews, Empowerment, Faith, Featured, spirituality, Theology |
Many Rational Faiths readers are likely already familiar with Marcus Borg. For those aren’t, I highly recommend getting to know him. Marcus Borg (1942-2015) was a highly-respected and renowned academic who specialized in religious studies, with a specific focus on the...
by Blaire Ostler | Jun 20, 2017 | Authority, Body of Christ, Featured, General authorities, LGBTQ, Ordain Women, Theology |
(Photography Art by Seb Janiak) My closest friends know I dream. I dream a lot. I have dreams about fantasy worlds that don’t exist, and dreams that are so closely aligned with memories that I question if they really happened. I have beautiful dreams,...
by Michelle Wiener | May 24, 2017 | Agency, Apologetics, Apostasy, Atonement, Bible Scholarship, Church, Church History, Corporate Church, Faith, faith crisis, Featured, History, Jesus, Jesus Christ, New Testament, Savior, scripture, Theology, Why I Am Mormon |
Recently in my doctoral work, I have been studying what Mormons consider part of the Great Apostasy- the first four ecumenical councils- which include the Council of Nicaea (325CE), the Council of Constantinople (381CE), the Council of Ephesus (431 CE), and the...
by Benjamin Knoll | Feb 7, 2017 | Featured, Theology |
Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach. Hebrews 10:1 (NRSV) “Creatures which God has...
by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Dec 10, 2016 | Family, Featured, Temple, Theology |
Commentary by Hannah Lillis We have a cross stich that my mother-in-law made when Matthew and I got married. It says “Families are Forever,” and honestly every time I see it now I think “well, I hope not!” Don’t get me wrong—I love my husband and my children. I...
by Jeremy Timothy | Oct 3, 2016 | Agency, Faith, Featured, Humanity, Mental Health, Mormonism, Theology |
There exists in the LDS culture an idea that we are meant to be happy and to have the gospel is to be happy. It is not uncommon to imagine the afterlife as a state of unending happiness. So much of or rhetoric is based on how we are the happiest people on Earth...
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