by Jason L | Jul 20, 2017 | Featured, ordinances, Priesthood, Service |
There’s a new party line emerging in the Church about the priesthood. It is this: “No one blesses themselves through the priesthood, so everyone is equally blessed by the priesthood.” This is becoming the neat little response to concerns about the men-only nature of...
by J | Aug 22, 2016 | Featured, Politics, Radical Compassion |
When people talk about “privilege” — as in “white privilege” or “male privilege” or “straight privilege” — it can be easy for some people to tune out. Here’s another social justice warrior telling me I...
by Jason L | Jan 16, 2015 | Featured, Obedience, Politics |
I overheard a conversation the other day about the connection between wealth and righteousness. The consensus was that people could be wealthy or poor regardless of whether they were good or bad. But then someone brought up the Book of Mormon promise that “inasmuch as...
by Jason L | Sep 30, 2014 | Featured, Feminism, Priesthood |
I have been actively participating in the conversation about gender in the LDS Church for quite sometime now. I have listened carefully to a range of ideas about why LDS women are not now ordained to the priesthood, what that tells us about gender and about the...
by L Thomas | Feb 4, 2014 | Faith Crisis, Featured, Revelation |
After my son was born I had a dilemma: how do I give a baby blessing while knowing that faith is much more complicated now than before? It’s not that I hadn’t given any blessings, or that I hadn’t given any in the recent past. I had given blessings of healing or...
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