Petitioning Heavenly Mother and the Call to Faithful Agitation

Petitioning Heavenly Mother and the Call to Faithful Agitation

by | 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 | 0 comments

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...
Response to “Joseph Smith’s Teachings about Priesthood, Temple, and Women”

Response to “Joseph Smith’s Teachings about Priesthood, Temple, and Women”

by | Oct 24, 2015 | Church History, Featured, Feminism, Heavenly Mother, History, Joseph Smith, Mormonism, Relief Society | 8 comments

Any conversation that opens up space for honest discussion of women within Mormonism is good, and the church’s newest essay “Joseph Smith’s Teachings about Priesthood, Temple, and Women” brings the topic of women and priesthood authority into that space. The gospel...
The Untouchables

The Untouchables

by | Oct 2, 2015 | Featured, Homosexuality, Jesus Christ | 1 comment

There was a message behind these healings, and it sounded throughout all of Galilee, Judea, and the known parts of the world: When God became human, when he wrapped himself in our blood and skin and bones, his first order of business was to touch the ones that we...