Category: faith

May 22, 2013

Doubt, the Devourer

It has been declared anciently that in these latter-days, among the ...

May 12, 2013

The Power of Mothers and Babies

When I was a little girl I just knew that I ...

May 9, 2013

Relating To God and All People

One of the most often-quoted scriptures in the Church is Moses ...

May 7, 2013

What’s A Slacker Mom To Do?

Someone, I won't name any names, submitted this question which is ...

May 1, 2013

Follow the Money

I witnessed an exchange today that was unsettling. It was between ...

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 26, 2013

How Will Governs the Cosmos

I like to understand how things work. I do this by ...

April 22, 2013

Jane’s Story

Jane was abused as a child and in that horror she ...

April 19, 2013

Choose Higher Ground

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

April 16, 2013

The Words We Speak

Today's post in our General Conference Discussion comes from Angie. She ...

April 14, 2013

This Is My Work and Glory

Today's post in our General Conference Discussion comes from Paul and ...

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 10, 2013

Seeing Good Men

There is a line from Avatar which has become a silly ...

April 8, 2013

Reader Led General Conference Discussions

Wasn’t that a wonderful General Conference? As usual, a spiritual and ...

April 6, 2013

Pondering General Conference

  We're kind of quiet here at Real Intent on General Conference ...

April 5, 2013

Hold Your Peace

This is the seventh of a 7-part series, A Compound in One. In March of ...

April 5, 2013

Family is the Plan of Salvation

This is the fifth in a 7-part series, A Compound in One.  Understanding that Satan's ...

April 5, 2013

Gifts (Estates) Precede Callings

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

March 29, 2013

Not Pertinent to My Eternal Salvation

A few weeks ago I overheard a comment that has become ...

March 27, 2013

Brad Wilcox, Continuous

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

March 23, 2013

Be Ye Therefore Perfect

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

March 22, 2013

Why We Chose a Charter School

Crystal Dever joins us a guest writer for the education mini-series. When ...

March 18, 2013

What Should I Expect?

In the Lorenzo Snow manual there is a sub-heading (on page ...

March 18, 2013

The Highest Education We Can Achieve

This is the first in a mini-series on education running this ...

March 16, 2013

Loving Pope Francis

This morning I heard, “I will pray for him and for ...

March 14, 2013

Redeemed

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

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 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

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 27, 2013

Standing Still

The clock whispered its allure, tick, tick, tick. Like a marble ...

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 25, 2013

The Day I Lied to My Bishop

I was reading a thread on a bishop’s power of discernment ...

February 24, 2013

Healing

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

February 23, 2013

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder

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

February 22, 2013

Understanding Schizophrenia

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

February 21, 2013

Overcoming Anxiety and Depression without Medication

This essay is a part of our Peculiar Minds series. Editor's Note: ...

February 21, 2013

What is Bipolar Disorder?

From the National Institute of Mental Health: Bipolar disorder, also known as ...

February 20, 2013

A Reader’s Story of Hope

One of our faithful readers read Free at Last in our Peculiar ...

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

Free at Last

This guest essay in our Peculiar Minds series was submitted anonymously. The ...

February 19, 2013

Understanding Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, and OCD

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

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 18, 2013

Simply Depression

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

February 17, 2013

Understanding Dementia

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

February 17, 2013

The Diagnosis

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

February 15, 2013

Resources for Help with Mental Illness

This essay is part of our Peculiar Minds series. A Personal Perspective I ...

February 12, 2013

The Unspeakable Gift

I was buffeted by images of people recoiling in their living ...

February 11, 2013

What Will I Regret?

When I heard President Uchtdorf's talk in October, I liked it. ...

February 9, 2013

Questions about Joseph Smith

This question came to us and we want to talk about ...

February 7, 2013

Gospel Protection in a Poisonous Culture

I came to conference this time hoping for real answers to ...

February 6, 2013

Life Infusions from Lives Lived Well

When we are young, it seems that we will live forever. ...

January 31, 2013

The Road IS Long

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

January 29, 2013

Spiritual ADD

Too often I find myself going through the following cycle: I discover ...

January 28, 2013

Invitations for Our Readers

We are passionate about what we do at Real Intent, and ...

January 25, 2013

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

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

January 23, 2013

Public Dissent and Private Responsibility

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

January 18, 2013

Vision of Hope

“Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we ...

January 16, 2013

Exact Obedience in an Imprecise World

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

January 15, 2013

I’m Being Tried?

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

January 14, 2013

I Am a Sheep

I am a sheep. Like the fluffy blobs of wool sprinkled ...

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 10, 2013

Why I Think We’re Having the Wrong Conversation

Last year Neylan McBaine, founder of the Mormon Women Project, rocked ...

January 6, 2013

Thoughts on Spiritual Poverty

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

January 5, 2013

My Gift to Jesus

While I am a goal-setter, I've never been one for New ...

January 3, 2013

A Stream of Testimony

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

January 2, 2013

Miracles, Not Just Resolutions

I don't really like making New Year resolutions. Unless they are ...

December 22, 2012

Mary and Christmas

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

December 20, 2012

The Gift of Oneness

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

December 18, 2012

Foundational Thoughts about Spiritual Gifts

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

December 17, 2012

Something Useful, Something Meaningful, Something Joyful

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

December 16, 2012

To Believe on Their Words

This is the seventh 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 14, 2012

The Gift of Faith

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

December 13, 2012

Tangible Gifts

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

December 12, 2012

The Gift of Tongues

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

December 8, 2012

Praying for Charity

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

December 7, 2012

Salvation in This Life

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

December 1, 2012

Keeping Christmas

Karen Austin at Segullah has a post up about her celebration ...

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 23, 2012

When the Road Veers to the Right

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

November 22, 2012

God is There. Somewhere.

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

November 20, 2012

In Which I Am a Church Lady

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

November 18, 2012

The Map: Imagine If

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

November 17, 2012

Candy to My Soul

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

November 15, 2012

Eucharisteo

For a little over a year I have been on a ...

November 10, 2012

Count Your Blessings

My son has been counting the days until his birthday. For ...

November 7, 2012

More Questions than Answers

For most of my life I have lived the gospel. Not ...

November 6, 2012

A Storm of Anger

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

November 5, 2012

Questions? You’ve got questions??

A number of years ago when I taught a stake institute ...

November 4, 2012

Light and Darkness

"What is that?" I asked. "It's one of those sun lamps. ...

November 2, 2012

Embracing Grace

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

October 31, 2012

Dia de Los Muertos

Halloween coincides with the Mexican festival Dia de Los Muertos (Nov ...

October 30, 2012

Pool Covers and My Hurricane Husband

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

October 27, 2012

Our Matriarch

My maternal grandmother is 90 years old. She has been a ...

October 25, 2012

Carrying His Load

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

October 24, 2012

A poem

When we first saw the dust they'd use to make our ...

October 22, 2012

Venus & Mars and the Empty Bucket

I can never remember if I’m from Mars or my wife ...

October 22, 2012

Peoria Tree of Life

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

October 19, 2012

Sacred Silence and the Mysteries of God

Occasionally I will hear the subject of mysteries brought up in ...

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

Reconciling the Conflicts between Science and Religion

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

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 14, 2012

On Being Forever Broken

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

October 13, 2012

In Elder Oaks’ Office

Fifteen years ago my father-in-law was called to be a mission ...

October 12, 2012

Learning About the Protestant Reformation

Quick, what is October 31st known for? Halloween is not an acceptable ...

October 11, 2012

My Pavilions

President Eyring's words from Sunday morning General Conference hit me right ...

October 11, 2012

Celebrating Repentance

One of the themes of this past conference washed over me ...

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 6, 2012

Conference is Here! And How Was It?

It's finally here! (We're not waiting until Sunday to listen, by ...

October 5, 2012

Four Good Reasons to Attend Church with Hypocrites

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

October 4, 2012

The Problem with the Popular Perception of Perfection

OK, the title is intentionally over-the-top alliteration, but I believe ...

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 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 26, 2012

A Comfortable Dead Watch

My eyes darted across my dresser one last time as I ...

September 24, 2012

Is Faith Your Personal Story?

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

September 24, 2012

The Bright Night of My Soul

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

September 24, 2012

From Faith to Conviction

I love writing and I really love being a Mormon blogger. ...

September 23, 2012

Faith and Belief

A few Sundays past we had the discussion about Samuel the ...

September 20, 2012

Cognitive Dissonance For a More Perfect Understanding

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

September 20, 2012

Mites

Our ward is noisy. We are a young ward, with a ...

September 19, 2012

Letting Go

I am a quitter. Over the course of my life, I have ...

September 18, 2012

Living Faith in an Age of Like

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

September 16, 2012

A Summer Cottage in Babylon

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