Category: trials

May 7, 2013

Learning to Be Okay With (and Maybe Love) Mother’s Day

"I hate Mother's Day." I did not say this, but I have ...

May 2, 2013

Your Life is So Easy

Some years ago I was Young Women President shepherding a group ...

April 12, 2013

When is Your Appointment?

Over a blissfully free-from-work-and-school holiday break this winter, my eight-year-old daughter ...

March 11, 2013

Called to Fall

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

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 24, 2013

Healing

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

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 22, 2013

What is Schizophrenia?

This research essay is part of our Peculiar Minds series. From the ...

February 20, 2013

A Reader’s Story of Hope

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

February 20, 2013

Understanding P0rnography Addiction

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

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 19, 2013

Panic, OCD, Grandma, and Me

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

February 18, 2013

Does Committing Suicide Consign Someone to Hell?

This forum question is a part of our Peculiar Minds series. Many ...

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

Different Issues for Children

This research essay is part of our Peculiar Minds series. Identifying mental disorders ...

February 17, 2013

Understanding Dementia

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

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 16, 2013

Anxiety Disorders, including PTSD

This research essay is part of our Peculiar Minds series. Anxiety Disorders are broadly ...

February 15, 2013

Peculiar Minds

This is the first essay in our 10-day series, Peculiar Minds. When ...

February 8, 2013

What Shall I Give in Exchange For My Soul?

I am drawn to simple, yet profound statements: one sentence sermons ...

February 7, 2013

Gospel Protection in a Poisonous Culture

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

February 4, 2013

The Three Tests We Must Pass?

I have been having a great time digging through Avraham Gileadi's ...

February 3, 2013

Hungering and Thirsting after Righteousness

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

January 15, 2013

I’m Being Tried?

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

January 12, 2013

Growing Sin

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

December 14, 2012

The Gift of Weeping

This is the sixth 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 ...

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 14, 2012

Poem: and when that morning comes

when elijah abel raises brigham young from the dead he'll put his ...

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 ...

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 25, 2012

Carrying His Load

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

October 17, 2012

Reconciling the Conflicts between Science and Religion

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

October 11, 2012

My Pavilions

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

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 24, 2012

Is Faith Your Personal Story?

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