Author Archives: Bonnie
Move Over – It’s The Law
I was driving home on the freeway from an appointment and ...
What Would Marjorie Do?
Published long ago in a galaxy far, far away... A week or ...
The Gift of Giving Life
For the next week we are sharing essays on motherhood in ...
Your Life is So Easy
Some years ago I was Young Women President shepherding a group ...
Follow the Money
I witnessed an exchange today that was unsettling. It was between ...
Choose Higher Ground
My missionary son wrote his first p-day letter Monday. It was ...
Hold Your Peace
This is the seventh of a 7-part series, A Compound in One. In March of ...
Homosexuality, Feminism, and the Intelligentsia
This is the sixth in a 7-part series, A Compound in One. Twenty years ago ...
Family is the Plan of Salvation
This is the fifth in a 7-part series, A Compound in One. Understanding that Satan's ...
Sex as a Sacrament
This is the fourth in a 7-part series, A Compound in One. The gospel of ...
- A Compound in One | baptism | blood | create | fragmentation | menstruation | priesthood | sacrament | save | sex | sexuality | sexualization | water
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Gifts (Estates) Precede Callings
This is the third in a 7-part series, A Compound in One. As I studied ...
Know Ye Not That Ye Are the Temple of God?
This is the second in a 7-part series, A Compound in One. Latter-day saints are ...
Dualism, Pythagoras, and Philosophical Curiosity
This is the first in a 7-part series, A Compound in One. In a former ...
Brad Wilcox, Continuous
In a delightful pair of books, popular LDS author and speaker ...
Called to Fall
Half a year and most of a lifetime ago our world ...
- atonement | Book of Job | Eve | Fall of Adam | grace | hope | sacrifice | suffering | suicide | wisdom
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Why We Sometimes Shouldn’t Write
I have a long history of offending people with my writing. ...
What is Influencing You?
Sheri Dew visited our area for a 3-Stake fireside Saturday night. ...
Choosing Treatment through Revelation
This essay is part of our Peculiar Minds series. One of the ...
Doctrine and Covenants Reference Companion
I don't buy many reference books anymore. Even knowing it's true, seeing ...
The Unspeakable Gift
I was buffeted by images of people recoiling in their living ...
The Road IS Long
Last month the Lord promised me help when I needed it, ...
Public Dissent and Private Responsibility
My oldest daughter couldn't find a building for her young mothers ...
Why I Think We’re Having the Wrong Conversation
Last year Neylan McBaine, founder of the Mormon Women Project, rocked ...
Our New Discussion Forum
Behind the scenes we've been discussing changes at Real Intent, based ...
The Gift of the Gospel
This is the twelfth and final in a series by our ...
The Gift of Oneness
This is the eleventh in a series by our writers and ...
The Gift of Weeping
This is the sixth in a series by our writers and ...
No Turning Back Now
While half of our nation is in a relative state of ...
- Book of Mormon | election | faith | freedom | Jesus Christ | LDS church | missionary | Mitt Romney | Mormons | politics | president | witness
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Does God Need Me?
I sat doubled over in the temple dressing room stall sobbing ...
Digging Deep Wells
I sat in the evening session of Stake Conference last month ...
- discouragement | hope | joy | Kal-toh | mud | order | persistence | revelation | wells
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Return and Bring Me Word
(Last week.) Once again, the supervisor has put off starting my son ...
With Willing Hands
"The meeting that unfolded has to be the worst meeting in ...
A Comfortable Dead Watch
My eyes darted across my dresser one last time as I ...
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On Commentary and Conduct
One of our core principles at Real Intent is to refrain ...