Category: charity

May 7, 2013

Learning to Be Okay With (and Maybe Love) Mother’s Day

"I hate Mother's Day." I did not say this, but I have ...

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 24, 2013

See The Spirit Before The Life-Worn Face

I recently attended a Church-sponsored class on how to help the ...

April 1, 2013

Agency: Guns, Gays and Abortion

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

March 25, 2013

The Unequal Burden of Women

Economic disparity between men and women has been well-documented.  Equal pay ...

March 9, 2013

Gospel Friendship

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

February 22, 2013

Understanding a Roommate with Schizophrenia

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

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 19, 2013

Understanding Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, and OCD

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

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

Understanding Dementia

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

February 13, 2013

Why the Basics Are Not Always So “Basic”

Language is a fluid concept. An english dictionary from two hundred ...

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 20, 2013

Blessed are the Meek: Defining Meekness as a Personal Quest

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

December 23, 2012

Greater Love Hath No Man than This

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

December 18, 2012

Foundational Thoughts about Spiritual Gifts

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

November 20, 2012

In Which I Am a Church Lady

I was twelve when I first knew I would grow up ...

November 17, 2012

Candy to My Soul

It’s that time of year where sweet temptations are constantly at ...

November 9, 2012

In Prison and Ye Came

This is the story of why I go to prison every ...

November 6, 2012

A Storm of Anger

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

October 25, 2012

Too Proud to be Served?

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

October 22, 2012

Peoria Tree of Life

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

October 17, 2012

The Wonder of Warts

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

October 16, 2012

If Ye Do This, Ye Shall Always…

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

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 5, 2012

We cannot say, “I have no need of you”

21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no ...

September 29, 2012

Helping the World

I never feel I can do much for the world. I ...

September 24, 2012

The Bright Night of My Soul

I wrote the following on Mormon Matters a while ago, but ...

September 20, 2012

The Child Behind the Diagnosis

Later in life than is usual, I’m a college student studying ...

September 18, 2012

Living Faith in an Age of Like

My friends Like (according to a website I visit at least ...