Category: parenting

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 7, 2013

The Mother Well

Our friend and frequent guest author Stephanie Dibb Sorensen joins us ...

May 6, 2013

The Gift of Giving Life

For the next week we are sharing essays on motherhood in ...

May 4, 2013

Adult Parenting

My oldest daughter graduates from high school in less than a ...

April 10, 2013

Seeing Good Men

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

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

Sex as a Sacrament

This is the fourth in a 7-part series, A Compound in One.  The gospel of ...

April 5, 2013

Gifts (Estates) Precede Callings

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

April 1, 2013

Agency: Guns, Gays and Abortion

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

March 28, 2013

General Conference Notes Worksheet

Click here to watch general conference online I made this worksheet with ...

March 25, 2013

The Unequal Burden of Women

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

March 22, 2013

Is College Education for Naught When You Just Stay Home?

A while ago I was talking to a BYU student in ...

March 20, 2013

With Mindful Consideration

Emily Spackman joins us as a guest writer today. We live in ...

March 19, 2013

A House of Learning

... Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; ...

March 18, 2013

The Highest Education We Can Achieve

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

March 15, 2013

Covenant Motherhood: A Review

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

March 13, 2013

Easter Beyond the Basket

I sometimes hesitate to admit a few things about myself, because ...

March 8, 2013

An Interview with the Author of “Covenant Motherhood”

Today we're publishing an interview with author Stephanie Dibb Sorensen, whose ...

March 6, 2013

Enough with the Finger Pointing, Let Me Love My Kids!

This is a post from Jen's personal blog, June 2012 that ...

February 28, 2013

Part 6: In Which I Finally Get to Gay Marriage

This essay is the sixth and final in a series about Gay ...

February 28, 2013

Part 5: What is Marriage?

This essay is the fifth in a series about Gay Marriage and ...

February 28, 2013

Part 4: Why Does a Word Matter?

This essay is the fourth in a series about Gay Marriage and ...

February 28, 2013

Part 3: Gay Rights in Our Time and Place

This essay is the third in a series about Gay Marriage and ...

February 28, 2013

Part 2: American Assumptions about Orientation and Identity

This essay is the second in a series about Gay Marriage ...

February 28, 2013

Gay Marriage and Proposition 8, Part 1

Next month, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about the ...

February 25, 2013

The Day I Lied to My Bishop

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

February 23, 2013

My Path Down the Rabbit Hole

This essay in our Peculiar Minds series is anonymously contributed. My wife ...

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 20, 2013

No One Wants to Hear They’re Wrong

I was having a conversation this morning with my son, and ...

February 19, 2013

Panic, OCD, Grandma, and Me

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

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 12, 2013

The Unspeakable Gift

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

February 7, 2013

Gospel Protection in a Poisonous Culture

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

January 31, 2013

The Road IS Long

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

January 30, 2013

On Losing Our Religion

NPR ran a series recently called Losing Our Religion.  Jen posted ...

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 3, 2013

A Stream of Testimony

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

December 6, 2012

Forgetting What It Means To Be a Kid

There was a television show a few years back entitled Kids ...

October 31, 2012

Dia de Los Muertos

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

October 27, 2012

Our Matriarch

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

October 23, 2012

Sleep Is Over-Rated

No, this post is not about early-morning seminary.  Just thought I ...

October 22, 2012

Venus & Mars and the Empty Bucket

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

October 15, 2012

Living Imperfectly

The second time I was called as bishop, my oldest son ...

October 8, 2012

The Driving Force of Parenting

My sixteen year old son is learning to drive.  He’s number ...

September 30, 2012

Connection to the Divine

I helm a large ship.  In the deep waters in which ...

September 29, 2012

Helping the World

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

September 22, 2012

Kids and Communication

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

September 20, 2012

On Parental Controls

First, my credentials:  I’ve been a parent for over 31 years, ...