Author Archives: Becca

About Becca

Becca is just a woman, mother, daughter of God, trying to figure things out. She blogs at My Soul Delighteth and Real Intent.

May 13, 2013

Truth Eternal Tells Me I’ve a Mother There

From our Separating Culture from Doctrine series, an ongoing series addressing ...

BYU Studies | culture | doctrine | Eliza Snow | feminism | Heavenly Mother | mother | Paulsen | Pulido | Q&I
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April 25, 2013

Separating Culture from Doctrine

This series is part of our Questions and Insight section. We ...

activism | all other things are appendages | Brigham Young | casseroles | church | culture | doctrine | Gospel | letter writing | Plan of Salvation | policy | separating culture and doctrine
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April 17, 2013

Questions: Indication of Doubt or Display of Faith?

Sometimes we act as if an honest declaration of doubt is ...

belief | experiment | faith | General Conference | help thou mine unbelief | imperfections | let him ask of god | Patience | progression | prophets | questions | revelation | science
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April 11, 2013

Born That Way

For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has ...

atonement | born again | born that way | childbearing | homosexuality | infertility | Natural Man | opposition | Plan of Salvation | resurrection | sin | spiritual growth | the fall
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January 26, 2013

Equality without Unity?

“I am a feminist.” What does that mean? Apparently no one really knows. At ...

equality | feminism | God | Heavenly Mother | marriage | Mormon feminists | Unity
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January 25, 2013

You’ve Got Questions? We’ve Got Insight.

As part of our attempt to foster an area where we ...

ask with faith | asking questions | even by study and also by faith | growth | insight | Joseph Smith | lacking wisdom | President Uchtdorf | question asking people | questioning | questions | searching for truth | truth
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January 17, 2013

Does Exaltation Mean Polygamy?

Does Mormon doctrine teach that in order to obtain exaltation, men must ...

celestial marriage | Eugene England | exaltation | fidelity | godhood | Heavenly Mother | marriage | polygamy | polygyny | temple marriage
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November 22, 2012

God is There. Somewhere.

The interesting thing about trials is that the ones we think ...

abandoned by God | able to bear it | agency | confusion | curve balls | earned trials | endure to the end | faith | loneliness | pain | peace | suffering
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November 7, 2012

More Questions than Answers

For most of my life I have lived the gospel. Not ...

Answers | crisis | diligence | discouragement | faith | joy | Patience | peace | questions
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October 3, 2012

The Contradictions of the Adversary

If I were to fall off a cliff, it would be ...

adversary | aim | archery | contradictions | God's law | looking beyond the mark | Missing the Mark | parenting
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September 20, 2012

Cognitive Dissonance For a More Perfect Understanding

Parenting doesn’t make people happier, according to a fairly recent study ...

cognitive dissonance | doctrine | happiness | Josh Weed | joy | Psychology | questions | spiritual progress | testimony | understanding
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