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: Gospel
What Good Is a Prophet?
“Claiming to speak for God is a tricky business — especially when God changes his mind, often, on hot-button political issues after receiving immense public backlash.” – Lauren Jackson, writing for CNN about the...
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...
Personal Revelation and My Future Self
One of the things I love about the church is its emphasis on personal revelation. The theology of having the Holy Ghost, a member of the Godhead, as a constant companion is beautiful to...
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...
A Recap of General Conference
This isn’t going to be a summary of general conference – more of a reaction. I saw several people in my social media feeds in the weeks leading up to conference expressing simultaneous excitement...
Sacred Music Sunday: God So Loved the World
We hear a lot at church about “The World”. The World is used as a bogeyman – a shorthand for anything bad. We’re told not to be like the world, as if the world...
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