Category: adversity

May 2, 2013

Your Life is So Easy

Some years ago I was Young Women President shepherding a group ...

April 19, 2013

Choose Higher Ground

My missionary son wrote his first p-day letter Monday. It was ...

April 11, 2013

Born That Way

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

March 31, 2013

It Is Finished: Death on Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday is the ultimate celebration of life - the glorious ...

March 27, 2013

Brad Wilcox, Continuous

In a delightful pair of books, popular LDS author and speaker ...

March 22, 2013

Spiritual Education Through Sin

We are often told that the only thing that we truly ...

March 12, 2013

God’s Greatest Hits: Moses v. Satan

Years ago I worked as an academic adviser at the University ...

March 11, 2013

Called to Fall

Half a year and most of a lifetime ago our world ...

March 9, 2013

Gospel Friendship

President Gordon B. Hinckley said that every convert needs three things: ...

March 1, 2013

Enjoying the View

Please welcome Brenda Madore, who has published with us as a ...

March 1, 2013

Do God and Satan Negotiate My Trials?

As a group of editors, we find there are questions that ...

February 24, 2013

Healing

This last essay in our Peculiar Minds series is by Michelle. A ...

February 23, 2013

My Path Down the Rabbit Hole

This essay in our Peculiar Minds series is anonymously contributed. My wife ...

February 23, 2013

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder

This essay in our Peculiar Minds series is from Melissa Horsley.  The ...

February 22, 2013

Understanding a Roommate with Schizophrenia

This essay in our Peculiar Minds series is written anonymously, with ...

February 22, 2013

Understanding Schizophrenia

This essay in our Peculiar Minds series is written by Judy ...

February 22, 2013

What is Schizophrenia?

This research essay is part of our Peculiar Minds series. From the ...

February 22, 2013

How Do We Embrace Those with Mental Illness?

We're learning so much about mental illness, let's see if we ...

February 21, 2013

Choosing Treatment through Revelation

This essay is part of our Peculiar Minds series. One of the ...

February 21, 2013

Understanding Bipolar II Disorder

This essay in the Peculiar Minds series is by Tresa Edmunds, ...

February 20, 2013

What is Real? Living Without Diagnosis

This essay in our Peculiar Minds series was anonymously contributed.  As a wife, ...

February 20, 2013

Understanding P0rnography Addiction

This essay in our Peculiar Minds series is by Dr. Kevin ...

February 19, 2013

Understanding Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, and OCD

This essay in the Peculiar Minds series is by author Robison ...

February 19, 2013

Panic, OCD, Grandma, and Me

This essay is a part of our Peculiar Minds series. I learned ...

February 18, 2013

The Well of Depression

This essay is a part of our Peculiar Minds series. The darkness ...

February 18, 2013

How To Help Someone Who Is Depressed: An LDS Perspective

This guest essay in our Peculiar Minds series is by Sarah ...

February 17, 2013

Asperger’s and Autism

This research essay is part of our Peculiar Minds series. Asperger's Disorder was ...

February 17, 2013

Different Issues for Children

This research essay is part of our Peculiar Minds series. Identifying mental disorders ...

February 17, 2013

Understanding Dementia

Today's guest essay in our Peculiar Minds series comes from Cassandra.  It’s ...

February 17, 2013

Understanding Asperger’s

Today's guest essay in our Peculiar Minds series is by Kathy ...

February 17, 2013

The Diagnosis

This guest essay in our Peculiar Minds series, is anonymous. I'm sitting ...

February 16, 2013

Understanding PTSD

This guest essay in our Peculiar Minds series is by Robin ...

February 15, 2013

Resources

This post is part of our Peculiar Minds series. Please read ...

February 15, 2013

Is Mental Illness a Latter-Day Plague?

This forum question is part of our Peculiar Minds series. Throughout preparing ...

February 15, 2013

Peculiar Minds

This is the first essay in our 10-day series, Peculiar Minds. When ...

February 13, 2013

Faith in Love

Valentine's Day is nearly here, in case you haven't seen the ...

February 4, 2013

Can I Do Good with a Bad Attitude?

I have a testimony of the gospel and of my Savior, ...

February 4, 2013

The Three Tests We Must Pass?

I have been having a great time digging through Avraham Gileadi's ...

January 31, 2013

The Road IS Long

Last month the Lord promised me help when I needed it, ...

January 27, 2013

Reflections on Meekness: Being Gentler With the Ones We Love

[On Sundays this year we are publishing a series from Ray ...

January 24, 2013

In the Tunnel

I have heard that those who suffer from depression often feel ...

January 23, 2013

Public Dissent and Private Responsibility

My oldest daughter couldn't find a building for her young mothers ...

January 15, 2013

I’m Being Tried?

I've been listening to NPR's Morning Edition series "Losing Our Religion" the ...

January 12, 2013

Growing Sin

I don’t like the word repent. Short and chopped at the ...

December 8, 2012

Praying for Charity

Please welcome Maria Farb, who is guest posting with us. “...pray unto ...

November 29, 2012

Motherhood – Service of the Highest Order

The most service I ever do is my day in and ...

November 25, 2012

A Fresh View of Repentance

The Bible Dictionary defines repentance as: "a change of mind, i.e., a ...

November 22, 2012

God is There. Somewhere.

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

November 14, 2012

Poem: and when that morning comes

when elijah abel raises brigham young from the dead he'll put his ...

November 6, 2012

A Storm of Anger

Lying here in the dark I hear the rumbling of a ...

November 2, 2012

Embracing Grace

I stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me - ...

October 30, 2012

Pool Covers and My Hurricane Husband

Please welcome Emily Christensen who is guest posting with us. I got ...

October 29, 2012

To Taste the Atonement

I never lamented about the vicissitudes of time or complained of ...

October 25, 2012

Too Proud to be Served?

We had a flood.  It was a little flood really, at ...

October 25, 2012

Carrying His Load

I had an interesting insight during a prayer one morning a ...

October 23, 2012

Sleep Is Over-Rated

No, this post is not about early-morning seminary.  Just thought I ...

October 22, 2012

Peoria Tree of Life

with Richard Shook, artist This year I’ve had the opportunity to watch my ...

October 21, 2012

Defining Faith

In my experience with grief I often read about how faith ...

October 20, 2012

Arriving Elsewhere

There is an ocean of ideas that flow through my writer’s ...

October 18, 2012

Faith Enough to be Healed

Over 15 years ago I had the privilege of visiting teaching ...

October 18, 2012

Digging Deep Wells

I sat in the evening session of Stake Conference last month ...

October 17, 2012

The Wonder of Warts

It is a basic medical truism that in order to be ...

October 15, 2012

Return and Bring Me Word

(Last week.) Once again, the supervisor has put off starting my son ...

October 14, 2012

On Being Forever Broken

I work very hard at trying to be positive.  I am intentional ...

October 9, 2012

If Jesus Wrote a book about the Garden of Gethsemane, would you read it?

Mark lived a dichotomous life. As an on again-off again drug ...

October 9, 2012

Judge Not, or In Other Words, What I Learned When I Was Hanging From a Rock

Awhile ago my husband and I broke out our rock climbing ...

October 8, 2012

The War of Animal Instincts

Recently, I remarked to my sister that I attract people with difficult ...

October 3, 2012

Messengers from my Father

I could use a revelation. An angel would be good. The other ...

October 2, 2012

“If God Only Knew…”

All people face trials or tests of the divinity that is ...

September 24, 2012

Is Faith Your Personal Story?

Everyone has a story. Not very many people record it, especially ...