by Michelle Wiener | Sep 23, 2015 | Agency, Compassion, Faith, Featured, Feminism, Forgiveness, Heavenly Mother, Individuality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Mormonism, Mother in Heaven, New Testament, Priesthood, Relief Society, Revelation, Savior, spirituality, Symbolism, The Holy ghost, Theology, Truth, Why I Am Mormon |
With today being Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in the Hebrew calendar, I would like to reflect on a very sacred experience that I had, and one that is very unique within Mormonism, although I was actually not yet a member of the Church when I had this...
by Michelle Wiener | Jul 22, 2015 | Agency, Apostasy, Compassion, Excommunication, Faith, Faith Crisis, Featured, Feminism, General authorities, Heavenly Mother, History, Honesty, Jesus Christ, Mormonism, Mother in Heaven, Priesthood, Relief Society, Revelation, Savior, scripture, spirituality, Theology, Truth |
Imagine how Mary Magdalene must have felt on the morning of the Resurrection, being the first person to see the risen Christ. Imagine too how she must have felt later on when she would be forever silenced for her testimony: “I have seen the Lord: such is the story of...
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 Miguel Barker-Valdez | Jan 29, 2015 | Featured, Mother in Heaven |
How Can I Learn to See Heavenly Father’s Our Heavenly Parents’ Hands in All Things? Note: First, I want to acknowledge that I totally ripped-off my post’s title from Kevin Barney’s amazing Dialogue article entitled, “How to Worship Our...
by Michelle Wiener | Jan 6, 2015 | Agency, Apologetics, Atonement, Bible Scholarship, Compassion, Faith, Faith Crisis, Family, Featured, Feminism, General authorities, Gospel Topics, Heavenly Mother, Honesty, Jesus Christ, Mormonism, Mother in Heaven, New Testament, Obedience, Old Testament, Priesthood, Radical Compassion, Relief Society, Revelation, scripture, Symbolism, Temple, The Holy ghost, Theology, Truth, Uncategorized |
by Michelle Wiener Hosea 4:6 says, “My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge: because thou has rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” In...
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