by Jacob Baker | Mar 12, 2018 | Body of Christ, Church, harmony, heterosexism, Homosexuality, Humanity, Individuality, LGBTQ, unity |
If you’re reading this, it’s likely that your Mormon church community experience has become or has always been a place where it feels like you have to battle for who you are against people and teachings that insist on what you should be instead. In one...
by Jacob Baker | Feb 1, 2018 | Activism, Charity, Empowerment, Fellowship, Feminism, gender, harmony, Individuality, Modesty, Mormon Humor, Porn Shoulders, Righteousness, Sexuality, unity |
It’s sad how the female immodesty issue–constantly a topic of discontent in social media–has unnecessarily divided us. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We should treat all inappropriately dressed women with courtesy and respect. They are...
by Michelle Wiener | Jul 26, 2017 | Agency, Apologetics, Church History, Education, Faith, faith crisis, Featured, harmony, Heavenly Mother, History, Honesty, Humanity, Mother in Heaven, Natural Theology, Potential, Theology |
Sometimes in your studies, you run across pleasant surprises. Recently this happened to me. As I was studying medieval church history, I ran across the name Boethius. I learned that Boethius was a powerful influence on the scholastic movement with writers like Thomas...
by Michelle Wiener | Aug 24, 2016 | art, Featured, Feminism, harmony, Heavenly Mother, Humanity, Hymns, Interviews, Mother in Heaven, Music, Natural Theology, restoration, Symbolism, Theology |
er Restless Weaver by Ola Harrison It seems everyone in the LDS world is familiar with the hymn “Oh, My Father” by Eliza R. Snow. For Mormons, this hymn is unique in the sense that it both mentions Heavenly Mother and functions as a prayer in its own right: In the...
by L Thomas | Nov 11, 2015 | art, Featured, harmony, Music, spirituality |
My earliest memories are of my mother singing. She is an excellent pianist and vocalist, and she loves playing and singing. She sang a wide range of songs, but many of them were church-related. She sang Primary songs, she sang hymns, and various solo arrangements for...
by Michelle Wiener | Oct 26, 2015 | Agency, Apostasy, Charity, Compassion, Faith, Faith Crisis, faith crisis, Family, Featured, Feminism, harmony, Heavenly Mother, Honesty, Individuality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, lies, Mother in Heaven, parenting, prayer, Priesthood, prophecy, Radical Compassion, Relief Society, Revelation, Savior, scripture, spirituality, Symbolism, The Holy ghost, Theology, Truth, unity, Why I Am Mormon |
As I was reviewing the 1991 Ensign article “Daughters of God” by Gordon B. Hinckley, then First Counselor in the First Presidency, I began to see a correlation between Hinckley’s prohibition against praying to our Mother in Heaven and the later call...
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