Category: atonement

May 19, 2013

Seeing God Among and Within Us

The Book of Mormon includes the following statement from Alma, the ...

April 30, 2013

Walking the Path to Charity through the Atonement

From a workshop presented at my stake’s women’s conference. Because we are ...

April 12, 2013

When is Your Appointment?

Over a blissfully free-from-work-and-school holiday break this winter, my eight-year-old daughter ...

April 11, 2013

Born That Way

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

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

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 1, 2013

Agency: Guns, Gays and Abortion

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

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 24, 2013

Mercy: “Judge Not, that Ye Be Not Judged”

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

March 23, 2013

Be Ye Therefore Perfect

Matthew 5:48 quotes Jesus Christ as saying, "Be ye therefore perfect, ...

March 22, 2013

Spiritual Education Through Sin

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

March 17, 2013

Becoming More Merciful

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

March 15, 2013

Covenant Motherhood: A Review

Our friend Stephanie has written a beautiful, accessible treatise on the ...

March 14, 2013

Redeemed

I am not a poetry person. Oh, I enjoy reading it, ...

March 11, 2013

Called to Fall

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

March 8, 2013

An Interview with the Author of “Covenant Motherhood”

Today we're publishing an interview with author Stephanie Dibb Sorensen, whose ...

March 7, 2013

Humility and Forgiveness

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

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 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 9, 2013

What’s So Great About Water?

During my first year of college at Cal State University, Northridge ...

January 31, 2013

The Road IS Long

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

January 30, 2013

On Losing Our Religion

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

January 24, 2013

In the Tunnel

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

January 21, 2013

Lies That Separate Us From God

There are many lies that can keep us away from God.  ...

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 ...

January 6, 2013

Thoughts on Spiritual Poverty

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

January 3, 2013

A Stream of Testimony

As the old year ends and the new begins, the editors ...

December 23, 2012

Greater Love Hath No Man than This

I have thought a lot in the past about the idea ...

December 22, 2012

Mary and Christmas

It's getting cold outside, where I live. The nights are getting ...

December 7, 2012

Salvation in This Life

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

December 3, 2012

Seeing God in the Caterpillars Among Us

I was struck by something a while ago that I have ...

November 25, 2012

A Fresh View of Repentance

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

November 18, 2012

The Map: Imagine If

My second daughter is a senior in high school.  She wrote ...

November 11, 2012

“Remember” as a Missionary Principle

My mind is prone to wandering to and fro trying to ...

November 2, 2012

Embracing Grace

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

November 1, 2012

Are Things What They Are, or What We Are?

All is quiet. Sitting, body aching, part of me crying for ...

October 29, 2012

To Taste the Atonement

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

October 26, 2012

Appraising Souls

One of my favorite talks from the October 2012 General Conference ...

October 25, 2012

Carrying His Load

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

October 18, 2012

Faith Enough to be Healed

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

October 15, 2012

Living Imperfectly

The second time I was called as bishop, my oldest son ...

October 14, 2012

On Being Forever Broken

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

October 10, 2012

Enough

As a woman, a Mormon, a mother, a human - I ...

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 ...

September 30, 2012

With Willing Hands

"The meeting that unfolded has to be the worst meeting in ...