by Robert Rees | May 20, 2015 | Featured, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mormonism, Why I Am Mormon |
Ever since reading David V. Mason’s “I’m a Mormon, Not a Christian” (Op-ed, NYT, 12 June 2012), I have thought about how my experience as a Mormon Christian differs from his. Mason, who sees himself “about as genuine a Mormon as you’ll find” and “emphatically not a...
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 Viliami | Mar 2, 2015 | Featured, Gospel Topics, Mormonism, Standard Works, unity, Why I Am Mormon |
I wrote a post not that long ago titled Why I Left. You can read it if you want but essentially I put the Church on blast for pretty much everything I think is wrong with it. I meant every word of it. Right away I received more than a few supportive messages which...
by James Patterson | Dec 31, 2014 | Featured, Mormonism, Why I Am Mormon |
Do you know how embarrassing it is to be caught crying during a kids movie? Let me tell you about it. Besides being one of the top movies of 2014, the LEGO Movie is—if you’re paying attention—kind of a deep philosophical examination of truth. (Warning: Spoilers ahead...
by Jerilyn | Aug 11, 2014 | Compassion, Featured, Mormonism, Radical Compassion, Why I Am Mormon |
In May of this year, Oregon became one of the avalanche of states to open up marriage to all couples. I had signed up for text alerts from a news service so I’d know right away and the message came at noon—gay couples who wanted to be married could go to the...
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