Category: hope

June 4, 2013

Hiking and Life

This was written on September 4, 2012 and originally posted at ...

May 30, 2013

Hope Not Fear, The Lord Is In Charge

This guest essay is from Carolyn Grover, and is based on ...

April 22, 2013

Jane’s Story

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

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 ...

March 31, 2013

It Is Finished: Death on Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday is the ultimate celebration of life - the glorious ...

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 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 ...

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 20, 2013

Understanding P0rnography Addiction

This essay in our Peculiar Minds series is by Dr. Kevin ...

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 Asperger’s

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

February 17, 2013

The Diagnosis

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

February 13, 2013

Why the Basics Are Not Always So “Basic”

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

January 21, 2013

Lies That Separate Us From God

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

January 18, 2013

Vision of Hope

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

January 12, 2013

Growing Sin

I don’t like the word repent. Short and chopped at the ...

January 3, 2013

A Stream of Testimony

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

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 18, 2012

The Map: Imagine If

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

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 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 31, 2012

Dia de Los Muertos

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

October 29, 2012

To Taste the Atonement

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

October 20, 2012

Arriving Elsewhere

There is an ocean of ideas that flow through my writer’s ...

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 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 4, 2012

The Problem with the Popular Perception of Perfection

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

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 ...