by Lindsay Hansen Park | Sep 4, 2015 | Compassion, Featured, Mormonism, Polygamy, Service |
Southern Utah is teetering on the brink of a human rights crisis as the towns of Hildale and Colorado City shed hundreds of refugees who have lost their homes and their families. As citizens on the border of our state suffer, the majority of Mormons are silent on this...
by J | Aug 24, 2015 | Charity, Compassion, Family, Featured, Homosexuality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Politics, Racism, Savior, scripture, Service, Truth, unity |
I believe that we all have an obligation to make sure our moral and ethical beliefs inform our politics. The Christian magazine Sojourners says it well: We envision a future in which Christians put their faith into action in the passionate pursuit of social justice,...
by Daniel Lewis | Jul 28, 2015 | Charity, Compassion, Featured, Mental Health, Service |
Authors note: This is a re-post of a previous article with updates and updated resources. “I have of late- but wherefore I know not- lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this...
by Michelle Wiener | Mar 30, 2015 | Agency, Apologetics, Atonement, Bible Scholarship, Charity, Compassion, Education, Faith, Faith Crisis, Family, Featured, Feminism, General Conference, Gospel Topics, Heavenly Mother, History, Honesty, Individuality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mormonism, Mother in Heaven, New Testament, Priesthood, Radical Compassion, Relief Society, Revelation, Sacrament, Savior, scripture, Service, Sexuality, Standard Works, Symbolism, Temple, The Holy ghost, Theology, Truth, unity, Why I Am Mormon |
“Symbolic language conceals certain doctrinal truths from the wicked and thereby protects sacred things from possible ridicule. At the same time, symbols reveal truth to the spiritually alert.” (1) Women are not allowed to preside over the Sacrament; yet the Sacred...
by Michelle Wiener | Mar 13, 2015 | Agency, Apologetics, Atonement, Bible Scholarship, Book Reviews, Education, Faith, Faith Crisis, Featured, Gospel Topics, Jesus, Jesus Christ, New Testament, Savior, scripture, Service, Sunday School, The Holy ghost, Theology, Why I Am Mormon |
While we are studying the New Testament in Gospel Doctrines; get ready! This is not your typical Gospel Doctrines lesson… While teaching a New Testament class last year at the community college where I work, I stumbled upon the following verse in Mark: “That...
by Daniel Lewis | Jan 27, 2015 | Featured, Mormon Humor, Priesthood, Service |
At a recent stake conference, I was asked to be a parking attendant. Actually, I wasn’t given a title, I wasn’t even told what to do or how to do it. The assignment came through my High Priest Group Leader, who informed us that Stake Leaders had asked for...
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