by Lesley A. Butterfield | Dec 13, 2018 | Activism, Belief, Body of Christ, Charity, Christmas, Church History, Compassion, decisions, Empowerment, exclusion-policy, Exculion-policy, faith crisis, Featured, Fellowship, Goodness, History, Humanity, Individuality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Judgement, LGBTQ, Mental Health, ordinances, Policy, racism, Radical Compassion, Righteousness, Savior, Service, spiritual abuse, spirituality, unity, Word of Wisdom, Word of Wisdom |
My arms ached. My back would feel it tomorrow. My fingers frozen from the nip of the wind. Tears welled in my eyes as I began to feel sorry for myself and the pathetic situation I was in. Again. As a single mother, snowfall doesn’t mean hot cocoa, snowmen, and...
by Jacob Baker | Mar 12, 2018 | Body of Christ, Church, harmony, heterosexism, Homosexuality, Humanity, Individuality, LGBTQ, unity |
If you’re reading this, it’s likely that your Mormon church community experience has become or has always been a place where it feels like you have to battle for who you are against people and teachings that insist on what you should be instead. In one...
by Jacob Baker | Jul 5, 2016 | Compassion, exclusion-policy, Family, Featured, Fellowship, Homosexuality, Humanity, LGBTQ, Poetry |
A poem that observes the limits of communities and institutions in being willing or able to include the suffering and even the existence of those who find themselves on the margins of their borders. Dedicated in particular to those who are grieving in the wake of...
by Jeremy Timothy | Jan 15, 2015 | Agency, Atonement, Charity, Compassion, Faith, Faith Crisis, Featured, Forgiveness, Humanity, Jesus Christ, Mormonism, Pearl of Great Price, Radical Compassion, Savior, Theology |
I have been told in the past that I am something of an empath. I think that may be part of what drove me to my career. A lot of empathetic people go into medicine. A lot of them have it stamped and squashed right out of them by the pressures of the job for which...
by Jacob Baker | Dec 28, 2014 | Featured |
Someone else has left. Friend, family member, fellow guardian of once shared sacred truths. He’s found another path. Time will tell if she was called to this other path or if he was simply called away from our community, anywhere but here. He’s still here. God...
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