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...
by Azul Uribe | Sep 13, 2016 | Activism, Compassion, Corporate Church, exclusion-policy, Family, Featured, Humanity, Jesus, LGBTQ, Policy, Politics, Polygamy, Youth |
The above picture was taken this past weekend in Mexico- in one of the 100 marches that took place across the country to defend “traditional families.” This (approximately) 12-year-old boy went and stood there against an entire cavalcade and personification of this...
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 Carrie Marsh | Jul 28, 2016 | Featured, Goodness, Humanity, Radical Compassion, unity |
On my mind tonight: Grief. After an emotionally difficult day at work today, my mind turned to loss and grief as I drove home. I thought about the grief I have experienced personally in losing our twin sons at 20 weeks. My mind drifted to my friends who have also lost...
by Azul Uribe | Jul 11, 2016 | Church, Compassion, Featured, Goodness, Humanity, Jesus Christ, prayer, unity |
I have checked out from the world, as much as one can in this day and age. This past month I have learned that you can have worst events in life that lead to hard days, and then you can have a list of days so horrendous that they amount to worst weeks. Mine was the...
by Jacob Baker | Jul 5, 2016 | Compassion, exclusion-policy, Family, Featured, Fellowship, Homosexuality, Humanity, LGBTQ, Poetry |
A poem that observes the limits of communities and institutions in being willing or able to include the suffering and even the existence of those who find themselves on the margins of their borders. Dedicated in particular to those who are grieving in the wake of...
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