by Michelle Wiener | Jun 22, 2016 | Agency, Apologetics, Corporate Church, faith crisis, Faith Crisis, Featured, Mormonism, Why I Am Mormon |
For this post, I decided to ask myself a rather difficult question. So, why do I, as a convert, remain LDS despite my struggles with certain aspects of Mormonism? As it turns out, I have some good reasons, and the positive far outweighs the negative. Here are my...
by Jason L | Mar 11, 2016 | Family, Featured, ordinances, Priesthood, Sacrament, Why I Am Mormon |
The year my brother turned 12, my dad received permission to ordain him to the Aaronic priesthood while we were visiting family in Utah. As a sixteen year old priest, this was my first time participating in an ordination. This was also the first time that a member of...
by Michelle Wiener | Feb 24, 2016 | Activism, Agency, Apologetics, Atonement, Bible Scholarship, Book of Mormon, Charity, Church, Church History, Compassion, Corporate Church, covenants, decisions, Disagreement, Education, Faith, faith crisis, Faith Crisis, Family, Featured, Fellowship, Feminism, General authorities, Heavenly Mother, History, Honesty, Individuality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Leadership, Mormonism, Mother in Heaven, Old Testament, Policy, prophecy, Prophets, Relief Society, restoration, Revelation, Savior, scripture, spirituality, Symbolism, The Holy ghost, Theology, Truth, unity, Why I Am Mormon, Young Womens |
To Presidents Oscarson, McConkie, and Marriott of the General Young Women’s Presidency: Once a month, the Young Women join us at the beginning of Relief Society, as we all recite in unison the Young Women’s Theme; which begins, “We are daughters of our Heavenly...
by Jeremy Timothy | Jan 4, 2016 | Faith, Featured, Humanity, Mormonism, Natural Theology, Revelation, science, scripture, spirituality, Symbolism, Theology, Why I Am Mormon |
Whether its Moses parting the Red Sea, Jesus rising from the dead, Mohammed riding a winged horse of fire up into heaven, or the Angel Moroni appearing to Joseph Smith to lead him to an ancient record written by his own hand on gold plates, all the World’s great...
by Michelle Wiener | Dec 23, 2015 | Agency, Book Reviews, Charity, Christmas, decisions, Faith, faith crisis, Family, Featured, Forgiveness, General authorities, History, Humanity, Movie Reviews, Repentance, restoration, Revelation, Service, spirituality, Symbolism, The Holy ghost, the Spirit World, Theology, Why I Am Mormon |
“‘I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?’ said Scrooge. The Spirit answered not, but pointed onward with his hand,” – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol 1 I have always found this image from Charles Dickens’ A...
by Dr. LaShawn Williams | Dec 16, 2015 | Apostasy, Black Mormon History Month, decisions, Disagreement, Excommunication, faith crisis, Family, Featured, General Conference, History, Honesty, Humanity, Individuality, infallibility, Jesus Christ, LDS Missions, Racism, spirituality, Truth, Uncategorized, unity, Why I Am Mormon |
In October, I was on a panel about Black Women and Race in the LDS Church as part of the “Black White and Mormon” Conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah the week after General Conference. After the panel, an audience member approached me because he knew my writing...
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