Category: agency

April 5, 2013

Homosexuality, Feminism, and the Intelligentsia

This is the sixth in a 7-part series, A Compound in One. Twenty years ago ...

April 5, 2013

Sex as a Sacrament

This is the fourth in a 7-part series, A Compound in One.  The gospel of ...

April 5, 2013

Gifts (Estates) Precede Callings

This is the third in a 7-part series, A Compound in One.  As I studied ...

April 5, 2013

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 ...

April 5, 2013

Dualism, Pythagoras, and Philosophical Curiosity

This is the first in a 7-part series, A Compound in One. In a former ...

April 1, 2013

Agency: Guns, Gays and Abortion

With all the tumult about same sex marriage, gun rights, and ...

March 22, 2013

Spiritual Education Through Sin

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

March 21, 2013

A Peek at LDS Un-Schooling

A growing number of LDS families choose to use home-based education, ...

March 20, 2013

With Mindful Consideration

Emily Spackman joins us as a guest writer today. We live in ...

March 11, 2013

Called to Fall

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

March 10, 2013

What Satisfies Hunger and Thirst?

I have been struck more than once by the way our ...

March 7, 2013

Humility and Forgiveness

Which one of us has had a stone lobbed at us, ...

March 7, 2013

Divine Motherhood, Earthly Realities

If you've ever been in a class of 9-year-old people reading ...

March 7, 2013

Viral Media

It's easy to pass on information very quickly. With the stroke ...

March 4, 2013

That for Which I Hunger and Thirst – and the Place of Blogging in My Pursuit

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

March 1, 2013

Do God and Satan Negotiate My Trials?

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

February 26, 2013

Why We Sometimes Shouldn’t Write

I have a long history of offending people with my writing. ...

February 26, 2013

When the Spirit Leaves

We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel ...

February 25, 2013

What is Influencing You?

Sheri Dew visited our area for a 3-Stake fireside Saturday night. ...

February 24, 2013

Healing

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

February 20, 2013

Understanding P0rnography Addiction

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

February 8, 2013

What Shall I Give in Exchange For My Soul?

I am drawn to simple, yet profound statements: one sentence sermons ...

February 4, 2013

Can I Do Good with a Bad Attitude?

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

January 30, 2013

On Losing Our Religion

NPR ran a series recently called Losing Our Religion.  Jen posted ...

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 25, 2013

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

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

January 16, 2013

Exact Obedience in an Imprecise World

One Sunday evening in November, I found myself in a little ...

January 13, 2013

The Paradox of Spiritual Debt

[Over the next few Sundays we are publishing a series from ...

January 12, 2013

Growing Sin

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

December 20, 2012

The Gift of Oneness

This is the eleventh in a series by our writers and ...

December 14, 2012

The Gift of Weeping

This is the sixth in a series by our writers and ...

December 7, 2012

Salvation in This Life

Those who crucified Jesus did so because they could not accept ...

November 27, 2012

The Big Fluffy Airport In The Sky

Please welcome Brenda Madore who is guest posting with us. One of ...

November 23, 2012

When the Road Veers to the Right

Have you ever experienced a point in your life when something ...

November 16, 2012

Handling the Glut

A few days ago my husband and I watched BYUTV’s collection ...

November 6, 2012

A Storm of Anger

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

October 30, 2012

Pool Covers and My Hurricane Husband

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

October 16, 2012

If Ye Do This, Ye Shall Always…

Months ago, I was preparing to teach the gospel doctrine lesson ...

October 15, 2012

Return and Bring Me Word

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

October 3, 2012

Messengers from my Father

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

September 30, 2012

Connection to the Divine

I helm a large ship.  In the deep waters in which ...

September 28, 2012

Ghazal

My grandfather, Gurcharan Singh Gill, is the kind of grounded, giving ...

September 27, 2012

Empty Nets

I’m pretty sure I’m on a List at church. It’s the ...

September 16, 2012

A Summer Cottage in Babylon

Merrily we roll along, roll along, roll along... Yup, that was me ...