by Michelle Wiener | Apr 27, 2016 | Agency, Church, Compassion, decisions, Disagreement, Education, Faith, faith crisis, Faith Crisis, Family, Featured, Feminism, Heavenly Mother, Honesty, Humanity, Individuality, Interviews, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Modesty, Obedience, parenting, Priesthood, Relief Society, Savior, scripture, spirituality, Temple, Truth, Worthiness, Young Womens |
Imagine having to submit yourself to a form of Christian Patriarchy minus “the Priesthood,” and you have the beginnings of Vyckie Garrison’s story. “I am not really good at submission,” Garrison explained to the Charlotte Atheists and Agnostics group at the Concord...
by Brian D. | Apr 7, 2016 | Book Reviews, Charity, Compassion, Featured, Forgiveness, Honesty, Radical Compassion, Reviews, Truth |
I love AMC’s The Walking Dead, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (the inspiration for Blade Runner). Why do I love these really quite bleak views of what the world could, or perhaps will, eventually...
by Cup o'JoSmith | Mar 23, 2016 | Atonement, covenants, decisions, faith crisis, Faith Crisis, Featured, Honesty, Joseph Smith, lies, Lying, Mormon Humor, Obedience, Repentance, spirituality, Temple, Word of Wisdom, Word of Wisdom, Worthiness |
I have a confession to make…. I’m a Mormon convert and I drink coffee. Lots of it. I guess that makes me the worst sinner on the face of the planet because I don’t keep “the commandments” – or rather one of the commandments. Other than that I’m a pretty good person....
by Azul Uribe | Mar 14, 2016 | Featured, Honesty, Individuality |
There is a young woman in my ward who has been suspended. She has been suspended for a few weeks, for nothing more than texting a few boys some flirty texts. How do I know this? I am part of the my wards Young Women’s presidency, the same one the bishop told her to...
by Michelle Wiener | Feb 24, 2016 | Activism, Agency, Apologetics, Atonement, Bible Scholarship, Book of Mormon, Charity, Church, Church History, Compassion, Corporate Church, covenants, decisions, Disagreement, Education, Faith, faith crisis, Faith Crisis, Family, Featured, Fellowship, Feminism, General authorities, Heavenly Mother, History, Honesty, Individuality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Leadership, Mormonism, Mother in Heaven, Old Testament, Policy, prophecy, Prophets, Relief Society, restoration, Revelation, Savior, scripture, spirituality, Symbolism, The Holy ghost, Theology, Truth, unity, Why I Am Mormon, Young Womens |
To Presidents Oscarson, McConkie, and Marriott of the General Young Women’s Presidency: Once a month, the Young Women join us at the beginning of Relief Society, as we all recite in unison the Young Women’s Theme; which begins, “We are daughters of our Heavenly...
by Carrie Marsh | Jan 28, 2016 | Agency, Compassion, Family, Featured, History, Honesty, Immigration |
For Christmas this year, we got a Christmas picture book, which was set in Norway, called The Reindeer Wish, from my parents. In the back of the book they included the story of my great-great-grandfather, Peter and his immigration from Norway to Utah after he joined...
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