Sacred Music Sunday: O Christ Your Heart Compassionate
I ran across this hymn recently. The tune was familiar – it’s used for Let Zion in Her Beauty Rise in our hymnal – but I had never heard these words to it before....
Category: Belief
Visio Divina at Allegheny Pilgrims
“spiritual practices help me feel connected to my body and create in me a sense of groundedness through my physical senses, while other kinds of spiritual practices, like journal writing or blessing, help me find my wings by focusing my intention in ways that are both creative and reflective. And so the key to spiritual practices is that we pay attention”
Guest Post: Things I Wish I Knew As A Single Latter Day Saint
By: Ramona Morris I never wanted to get married. I never wanted to get married. I NEVER WANTED TO GET MARRIED! Before joining the church just before my twenty-fourth birthday, I had always stood...
An [almost perfect] Imperfect Roundness
I have been hungry for this book for as long as I’ve known Melody Newey Johnson. We met virtually as bloggers on the Exponent listserv, where we discuss blog business, swap stories, and create...
Christlike Attributes, Implicit Bias, and Loving Your BIPOC Neighbor as Yourself
By Michelle Franzoni Thorley In the October 2020 General Conference, I was struck by the address from Elder Scott D. Whiting, “Becoming Like Him.” In this talk he spoke about the process of attaining...
Quotation and Gender in General Conference
By Eliza Wells Introduction In her April 2020 General Conference address, Primary General President Joy Jones declared, “President Russell M. Nelson taught, ‘It would be impossible to measure the influence that … women...
Dance With Me: 2020 WHO Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
Guest Post by Melody Melody’s thirty-plus year nursing practice includes clinical management, epidemiology, cardiology, nephrology, oncology, and behavioral medicine. She currently works part time at Huntsman Cancer Hospital and University of Utah Hospital as...
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