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Suffering and Lamentation

Suffering and Lamentation

by Jacob Baker | Dec 18, 2017 | Book of Mormon, Compassion, Featured, Hell, Jesus, Religion, Theology, Truth | 0 comments

Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. Father Mulcahy: How do you figure, Hawkeye? Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell? Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe. Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent...
We Thought Love Would Be Enough

We Thought Love Would Be Enough

by Jacob Baker | Jul 5, 2016 | Compassion, exclusion-policy, Family, Featured, Fellowship, Homosexuality, Humanity, LGBTQ, Poetry | 2 comments

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...
When Religion Treats Its Adherents Like Children

When Religion Treats Its Adherents Like Children

by Jacob Baker | May 12, 2016 | Education, Faith, Faith Crisis, Featured, infallibility, Theology | 4 comments

In James Smith’s How (Not) to Be Secular–his interpretive summary of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age–he notes that, while the causes and reasons for a loss of faith or belief are numerous, most people who embrace scientific materialism over religion do so because of...
Hyphenated Faith 1: Mormon-Buddhists

Hyphenated Faith 1: Mormon-Buddhists

by Kyle Anderson | Dec 9, 2015 | Featured, spirituality | 5 comments

As a people, Mormons aren’t particularly concerned with being like everyone else.   Our history is one of actively seeking “set-apart” status–sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Maintaining a trench between ourselves and the...
Moses, The Sound of Music, and Storm Troopers

Moses, The Sound of Music, and Storm Troopers

by Miguel Barker-Valdez | Apr 29, 2015 | art, Family, Featured, Heavenly Mother, Old Testament, parenting, prayer, scripture, Theology | 8 comments

As the lights dimmed in North Medford High School’s Sjolund Auditorium, my nine year daughter put her little hand in mine and with my other I held my wife’s hand. Captain von Trapp blew his whistle for the youngest to step forward. “I’m...
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