Category: conflict

April 1, 2013

Agency: Guns, Gays and Abortion

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

March 24, 2013

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

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

March 17, 2013

Becoming More Merciful

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

March 7, 2013

On Commentary and Conduct

One of our core principles at Real Intent is to refrain ...

February 25, 2013

What is Influencing You?

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

February 20, 2013

What is Real? Living Without Diagnosis

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

February 17, 2013

Understanding Asperger’s

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

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 21, 2013

Three questions from the 1964 Freedom Summer

A few days ago, my brother made the observation that Americans ...

January 20, 2013

Blessed are the Meek: Defining Meekness as a Personal Quest

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

November 6, 2012

A Storm of Anger

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

October 21, 2012

Defining Faith

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

October 17, 2012

The Wonder of Warts

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

October 17, 2012

Reconciling the Conflicts between Science and Religion

I grew up with a father who loved science, religion, and ...

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 8, 2012

The War of Animal Instincts

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

October 5, 2012

Four Good Reasons to Attend Church with Hypocrites

At church today I witnessed one of my fellow citizens in ...

October 2, 2012

“If God Only Knew…”

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

September 24, 2012

The Bright Night of My Soul

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

September 22, 2012

Kids and Communication

After some familial communication mishaps recently, we wanted to teach our ...

September 20, 2012

Cognitive Dissonance For a More Perfect Understanding

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