Sacred Music Sunday: Come, We That Love the Lord
Come, We That Love the Lord is a short hymn by Isaac Watts. I rarely hear it sung in LDS services, but it’s lovely and I wish we would sing it more often. The...
Category: Gospel
#hearLDSwomen: When I Asked a General Authority About the Temple Changes, He Told Me it Wasn’t Important and That It’s Dangerous to Doubt the Prophet
I had a general authority (70) come to my Young Single Adult ward just this past February. I was the Relief Society president in my ward and was invited to the stake leadership training....
A blessing for those who lost a loved one to suicide
We tend to name GodWith easy labelsCreatorFather MotherGod is also a God of ExitsA witness to injusticeA divine companion in sufferingGod-who-weepsGod-who-sits-with-us-in-our-griefGod who holds us in our life-and-deathGod of messy complicationGod of unyielding sadness.Yes, I...
As Thyself
I’ve written previously about the commandment to “love thy neighbor as thyself”, though, like most people who write about it, I’ve focused on the “love thy neighbor” part. It occurred to me recently that...
Sacred Music Sunday: Cast Thy Burden upon the Lord
When I was in college, I would often take time to go into the gardens behind the chapel. There was a statue of Jesus with open arms in the center of the garden. Inscribed...
Shades of Becoming: Poems of Faith Transition
From the Introduction, Shades of Becoming: Poems of Transition, ed. by Nancy Ross and Kristen R. Shill. For sale at Amazon. When I experienced the most painful part of my faith transition and started...
Guest Post: Yes, I Want You Back at Church
This post is a response to Chiaroscuro’s post “So You Want Me Back At Church“ by Rowena Dear Chiaroscuro (Or any of my several favorite friends who have left), I do want you to...
Reflections on 10 Years of the Mormon Women Project
By Meredith Marshall Nelson A decade after Neylan McBaine founded the Mormon Women Project, we have collected 265 long form interviews of Latter-day Saint women from 47 different countries around the globe. These...
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