Broken Things
Guest Post By Amelia Christensen. Amelia likes podcasts, ripping up gardens, and whale watching. She has two beautiful, curious, and emotional boys with her husband, and aspires to work in the mental health sector. Her heroines...
Category: Belief
Changes in General Conference: some big, some small, some not at all
Is your head spinning from all of the changes and announcements made at General Conference last weekend? Elder Holland’s joke about how “some of us have weak hearts!” got a big roar of laughter...
The Shape of My Lenten Journey
The early process Involved the identification of A problem A deficit Strategies to resolve it Embracing a particular goal. I made a big effort at the beginning Some early success Mixed with Reward Benefit...
An Interview with Womanist Ethicist Emilie M. Townes
When I entered graduate school to do women’s studies in religion, womanist theology and ethics were revelations. I entered the program somewhat familiar with feminist theology, but I was totally ignorant about womanism. Womanist...
Guest Post: My Articles of Faith
By Eleanor Rose The Articles of Faith were originally written as a letter to a Chicago newspaper editor. After Joseph Smith’s death, enthusiastic saints found the document and voted to canonize it. I may...
Suffer the Children
Article of Faith #2 has always been my favorite. Even with my recurring doubts that “men” really means “human beings” in this case. The obvious inequity in the reproductive zone aside, I clung to...
Welcome to the Sinners’ Club
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin… For all have sinned, and come short of...
Reading Scripture After a Faith Transition: The Transfiguration
I gave this sermon at the Las Vegas Community of Christ congregation on February 11, 2018. I have spent a good share of my life immersed in scripture. For most of my teenage...
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