by Lesley A. Butterfield | Apr 12, 2020 | Activism, Atonement, Body of Christ, Compassion, decisions, Empowerment, Faith, faith crisis, Featured, Fellowship, Forgiveness, forgiveness, abuse, trauma, boundaries, safety, healing, peace, Goodness, Humanity, Individuality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Potential, Savior, scripture, spiritual abuse, spirituality, Theology, Truth, Worthiness |
“How beautiful you are he said a tapestry of scars.” -Atticus When I was in college, I flew home for the summer. I packed up everything I owned into my luggage and when I arrived at the airport, my bag was over the weight requirements, forcing me to remove...
by Lesley A. Butterfield | Dec 25, 2019 | Agency, Authority, Belief, Body of Christ, Christmas, decisions, Empowerment, Featured, gender, Goddess, Heavenly Mother, Humanity, Individuality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Leadership, Marriage, parenting, Politics, Savior, sexism, Sexual Abuse, spiritual abuse, Symbolism, Truth, unity |
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and heart of little children.” -W.M. Thackeray Mary. Her story triggering to me year after year. Lack of consent in the name of a man’s will is triggering for any survivor of assault and abuse. You see, to survivors, it...
by Lesley A. Butterfield | Apr 7, 2019 | Activism, Agency, Apostasy, Authority, Belief, Body of Christ, Charity, Church, Compassion, covenants, decisions, Empowerment, eternal progression, faith crisis, Family, Featured, Fellowship, General authorities, General Conference, God, Goddess, Goodness, Humanity, Individuality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mormonism, Ordain Women, ordinances, parenting, Policy, Prophets, Radical Compassion, Religion, Righteousness, Savior, scripture, spiritual abuse, Spiritual Experiences, spirituality, the Spirit World, Theology, Theology, Truth, Why I Am Mormon, Youth |
I have a family. We are a family. I bore these children, made from my own flesh and blood. I labor for them. I love them. I nursed them. I nourish them. But, when I listened to President’s Nelson’s talk on the Sunday Morning Session of General Conference,...
by Benjamin Knoll | Jan 21, 2019 | Featured, Jesus, Jesus Christ |
I recently read Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary by the late Marcus Borg as part of my effort to learn more about “historical Jesus” scholarship. This book is Borg’s attempt to summarize the conclusions of this body of...
by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Dec 18, 2018 | Featured, Jesus, Jesus Christ, The Weird and Wild Old Testament |
https://media.blubrry.com/rationalfaiths/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/tcs37l/338_WWOT_Kukuk.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS This past Sunday I went to my wife’s church, where Reverend Kukuk preached from the Advent...
by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Dec 17, 2018 | Featured, Goddess, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Religion |
Three weeks ago, the woman in charge of our English classes was going over dates in which there would be no class. December 26, for example, no class. She then asked about December 12. I looked at my four Mexican students. “12 de Deciembre?...
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