Easter for Doubters
Christian holidays after a faith transition can be tricky. Two years ago, I wrote about speaking to my congregation on Easter Sunday. I finally answered my own question about the Resurrection on my short...
Category: Belief
Letter From a Doubter
Dear Church Leader, Allow me to introduce myself: I’m a millennial, part-time-work-at-home mom of 3 young kids, married in the temple to a returned missionary. Based on the outpouring of messages and firesides directed...
Climate Change Denial is a Prophecy Fulfilled
Biblical prophets predicted troubling times in the future. “For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven,” said Malachi of the Old Testament. (Malachi 4:1) “For when they shall say, ‘Peace and...
Guest Post — A Separate Spirituality: Planting Seeds of Faith After Leaving the Church
by Sara Katherine Staheli Hanks This post is offered in conjunction with a new online course for post-Mormon womxn*. You can learn more here. I’ve started dozens of journals in my life, but I...
Guest Post: Moon Child–Redefining Myself
By Marcela I recently experienced an epiphany moment in my life. But let me start a couple of days before this event. I was grabbing lunch with a friend whom I had really lost...
Guest Post: Meet Me in Almost Heaven
by Vandalia Empty chairs. Heaven will be full of empty chairs. All that loneliness, just waiting for us beyond the veil. Well, no. Not us, exactly. Our more righteous, diligent, never-wavering family members and...
Guest Post: When God is Love, there is no Sad Heaven
By Jody England Hansen My life as a Mormon does not include a fear of Sad Heaven. It does include hearing from many who struggle with seeing something that is beyond their own...
Memories, Prayers, and a Healing Blessing
In November 2015, the church issued an exclusion policy regarding LGBTQ+ families and their children. You may remember the perspectives of queer women, women in mixed-orientation-marriages, women who are daughters of queer parents, and...
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