Category: God

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 ...

April 11, 2013

Being Accepted of the Lord

Today's post in our General Conference Discussion comes from Michaela. If ...

April 5, 2013

Gifts (Estates) Precede Callings

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

March 26, 2013

Equal Opportunity Prayer, For only $5!!

I am not sure how many of you have heard of ...

March 15, 2013

Covenant Motherhood: A Review

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

March 11, 2013

Called to Fall

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

March 9, 2013

Gospel Friendship

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

February 26, 2013

When the Spirit Leaves

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

February 24, 2013

Healing

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

February 13, 2013

Why the Basics Are Not Always So “Basic”

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

February 9, 2013

What’s So Great About Water?

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

January 17, 2013

Does Exaltation Mean Polygamy?

Does Mormon doctrine teach that in order to obtain exaltation, men must ...

January 15, 2013

I’m Being Tried?

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

January 10, 2013

Why I Think We’re Having the Wrong Conversation

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

December 31, 2012

Three Pillars 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 14, 2012

The Gift of Weeping

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

December 3, 2012

Seeing God in the Caterpillars Among Us

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

November 24, 2012

How Readest Thou?

Many quote and study the parable of the Good Samaritan as ...

November 11, 2012

“Remember” as a Missionary Principle

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

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 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 29, 2012

Receiving God’s Image in Our Countenances Does Not Destroy Individuality

I saw a very profound, short statement on the wall of ...

September 28, 2012

Ghazal

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