by Leah Marie | May 2, 2014 | Faith Crisis, Featured, News |
A hot button issue in religious dialogue lately has been the hemorrhaging of millennials from their institutional religions. The general hypothesis for the reasons why center around social issues. I don’t qualify as a millennial, but this prevailing progressive...
by Corbin Volluz | Apr 8, 2014 | Featured, Gospel Topics, Honesty, LDS Church History, Lying, Mormonism, News, Theology |
The LDS Church is currently engaged in a systematic and officially endorsed effort to misrepresent some of its teachings to the outside world. This is not a new phenomenon. As far back as the Nauvoo period, “Joseph [Smith] publicly and repeatedly denied he was...
by Geoff Nelson | Mar 28, 2014 | Apologetics, Doctrine and Covenants, Featured, Feminism, Gospel Topics, LDS Church History, Mormonism, News, Priesthood, Sacrament, Standard Works |
If you are looking at the length of this post and thinking tl;dr then please just click here to jump to the heart of the post. Mormon gender roles and the Ordain Women movement have been in the news recently. Most arguments I’ve seen used to denounce the...
by Laurel Sandberg-Armstrong | Mar 18, 2014 | Featured, Feminism, Mormonism, News |
OK, so I had a different post planned today. It was super-duper smart and stuff. But I’ve been struggling with a chronic illness all week that makes my brain fuzzy, my thoughts loopy, and I can’t think much very well clearly. But then a great thing...
by Carson Calderwood | Feb 1, 2014 | Featured, News |
The church is quietly releasing articles on difficult subjects via their LDS.org website under the Gospel Topics section. The latest is titled, “Book of Mormon and DNA studies.” Similar to other subject specific articles, it acknowledges some modern viewpoints of LDS...
by Viliami | Jan 20, 2014 | Black Mormon History Month, Featured, Gospel Topics, Mormonism, News, Priesthood, Racism |
There is a stark contrast between Dr. King’s “Dream” speech and his letter from Birmingham. In the former he spoke of unification; in the latter he spoke of shattered dreams. From Birmingham he wrote, “In spite of my shattered dreams of the...
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