Sacred Music Sunday: Abide With Me
The story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus sticks with me. It takes place a short time after the resurrection of Jesus and is recounted in Luke 24. Two unnamed disciples were...
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How the Patriarchy Makes My Job Harder
I’m a lawyer in solo practice in the southwestern United States. I cover a large state and parts of surrounding states, representing disability claimants before the Social Security Administration. And the patriarchy makes my...
Young Women Lesson: Why Do I Need the Atonement of Jesus Christ?
The lesson plan focuses on the Fall, which is certainly a valid approach. However, my plan isn’t going to focus on that for two reasons. 1) I find the story of the Fall to...
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...
Sacred Music Sunday: When the Roll Is Called up Yonder
When I joined the church in the mid-1990s, there seemed to be an unspoken (and sometimes spoken) consensus that the Second Coming was right around the corner. We were living in the last days,...
To Be a Witness
By: Risa Easter has always been my favorite religious holiday. I relish the messages of re-birth, renewal, and hope that Easter brings. I love the reminder that my redeemer lives. “What comfort this sweet...
Relief Society Lesson: The Sabbath is a day to remember what God has done for us
Today we’re going to talk about a few of the grand, mighty, magnificent events that the scriptures tell us God associates with the sabbath. Let’s start, as I often like to, in the beginning....
Relief Society Lesson 6: The Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Opening Hymn: Where can I turn for peace? Closing Hymn: I need thee every hour I love this topic and I wish it were broken down into many different lessons to be enjoyed throughout the year....
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