Guest Post: Peace during Tribulation
By Miriam Miriam is a PhD candidate in Prevention Science at the University of Oregon, mother of 3 girls, and striving to teach her girls that their voices matter. This post was originally delivered...
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Sacred Music Sunday: Dona Nobis Pacem
I had planned to write a Lenten music post because Ash Wednesday is coming up this week. However, with the recent Russian attack on Ukraine, I felt the need to choose a different piece...
Returning to Lament
I am on the leadership team of an online ministry with Community of Christ that supports those in the middle of faith transitions. This is the text of a talk I was recently asked...
Come Follow Me: Doctrine and Covenants 102-105: “After Much Tribulation … Cometh the Blessing”
Conflict in Missouri The Jackson County lands near Independence, Missouri that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly referred to as Mormons at the time) and other white Missourians were...
Sacred Music Sunday: In that Great Gettin’up Morning
I was a late teenager on Y2K, and I was a college junior on 9/11. Suffice it to say, my teenage and early adulthood years were full of apocalyptic rhetoric. Most people were expecting...
The Courage to Create Peace
The courage to create peace is the willingness to hear that the community that is a comfortable place for me is not a comfortable place for my neighbor, because peace isn’t about silencing voices we do not like, it is about hearing them fully.
This is Life Eternal
The search for eternal life has been a concern of many religions and philosophical traditions throughout human history. This is especially poignant in our own tradition – Adam and Eve were immortal, ate the...
The Heavenly Host’s Challenge: Peace on Earth
When the ancient prophet Isaiah prophesied of our Savior, his words were beautiful, but also, as Isaiah tends to be, somewhat confusing. He described Christ’s birth this way: For unto us a child is...
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