Finding the miraculous in everyday life
Jeremy Timothy, MD ponders the wonders and miracles found in religion, science and everyday life.
MY DAUGHTERS DESERVE BETTER: GIVING AND GETTING
Yesterday was one of those rare days where my wife, Cathy, and I were able to meet for lunch. When we sat down, she said, "Mike, take a look at this. It's from the New Era1." She showed me the above picture which she had on her phone. I could tell she was...
The Brother of the Prodigal Son
I grew up with three older brothers. Two of them were out of the house and in college before I have any real memories of them. I grew up sharing everything with the brother just older than me, however. Everything. I have so many memories of us running around in the...
PAUL, ME, AND STAR WARS
One of my earliest childhood memories is sitting in a movie theater at the age of four with my little two-year-old brother, Paul, asleep in the chair next to me. We were watching Star Wars, Episode IV. By that time, our parents would have been separated, maybe even...
88: Top Ten Books in Mormon History – The Rise of Modern Mormonism
Mormon History in the 20th century can be a bit tougher to do since much of the data (journals, meeting minutes) are often kept in some safe place (like a church safe or family holdings) until the person or people of interest are long dead and beyond concern of...
Peace on Earth
Enjoy Geoff’s favorite Christmas movie, Peace on Earth.
How do children’s books have such wonderful life messages?
I have three living children. My younger two are six and three and every night we all squish onto the upholstered rocking chair and they each pick out a book to read. Last week we decided we'd had enough Blue's Clue's stories from the three year old and decided a...
A Glimpse into the Spirit World
"'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 Christmas Carol - whether the George...
Christmas Chaos
Between the fall equinox and the winter solstice there is a period of grand capitalism called “The Christmas Season”. You may have also heard it referred to as “The Holiday Season” which is accurate since it may include such holidays as Halloween, Ramidan, Chanukah,...
My Jesus
I don't know what I think about Jesus, sometimes. I'm clearly a believer--a believer in his life, in the resurrection, in the atonement, in salvation and exaltation, in his hard moral teachings. But sometimes the ways I believe in these things seem so different from...
OxyMormons #7
A weekly ‘political cartoon’ about Mormonism (or bi-weekly…or monthly…). Click on comic to see it in full size.
87: Christmas 2015
As the Christmas season was starting this year I found myself reading reading Jan Shipps' Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition. This book is not so much a history book as it is a theoretical analysis of Mormonism that ultimately argues that Mormonism is a...
A Card Carrying Mormon’s Case for Fighting the Policy Change
Note: This is a cross post. To visit where the post was originally published, click here. By now, all of us have heard of the policy change by the LDS church. Reactions varied widely. I cannot explain exactly why I’m writing, but I can tell you what I hope for. I...
The Miracle of Christmas through My Son’s Eyes
It began with my nativity set, given to me a few pieces at a time by my mother-in-law. The reason for that gift goes back to my childhood. Our Christmas Eve tradition centered around a ceramic nativity set. While my father read the story from the New Testament, my...
“Come, Follow Me” v. “Follow the Prophet”
In his October 2013 General Conference address, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf declared, [T]o be perfectly frank, there have been times when members or leaders in the Church have simply made mistakes. There may have been things said or done that were not in harmony with...
Be a Member Missionary to the Church
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...
LGBTQ Mormon Crisis
Two Printable handout for bishops and stake presidents that talks empirically about LGBTQ suicides:
The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide
Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis
The Barker Brothers’ Projects
These videos were created for Latter-day Saint parents and allies to voice their love for their LGBT brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. They want to give a message of comfort and support to other parents who are navigating the difficult conflicts that can arise in families around this issue.
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