Yes I am a Liberal Mormon - I Just Didn't Know There Was a Name For It
Meridian Magazine published a post from Joni Hilton that created such a commotion that it caused Meridian to take it down. I wish I could share that article with you but copywrite laws prevent me from...
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Book Review: Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
“When Elder Packer interviewed me as a prospective member of Brigham Young University’s faculty in 1976, he explained: ‘I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is...
View ArticleThe List
There is an informal list that as LDS people we are given to do to reach the highest level of exaltation. It's not written down anywhere (well, except where I wrote it) but it is understood.Here is...
View ArticleThe Polygamy Issue Part 3: The LDS Church's 2013 Statement on Polygamy and My...
The church has planned 13 different statements (I don't know what else to call them so I'll refer to them as statements which is probably wrong) relating to problems within church doctrine that members...
View ArticleCarol Lynn Pearson`s A Walk in Pink Moccasins
Fabulous post on Feminist Mormon Housewives by Carol Lynn Pearson.A Walk in Pink MoccasinsI have lived 33 years in the church and have often had these feelings only to be slapped down by some well...
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Why I Have a Problem With This City Creek Center Ad
This is the ad for City Creek Center, a mall in downtown Salt Lake City. A mall which the LDS church built for billions.But I'm not going to talk about the morality of a church building a multi...
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Book Review: Leaving the Saints by Martha Beck
Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faithby Martha BeckAs “Mormon royalty” within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the...
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My Shelf Fell Down
Now that I've told my kids...The shelf for the uninitiated refers to the one that gets put up and you place all your doubts about the church onto it. You don't examine what's on the shelf. You take...
View ArticleWhere Do I Go From Here
Someone very dear and whom I love very much accused me of having an anti-Mormon blog. He asked me to take it down.I am sure there are some posts that would be labeled by some devout members as...
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Gospel Medicine: Chapter 1 - Gospel Medicine
This blog series is based on the book "Gospel Medicine" by Barbara Brown Taylor, an Episcopal minister who has written several books based on her own life and her sermons. "Gospel Medicine" is a book...
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The Things I Choose to Keep: Heavenly Mother
Mother Nature's Garden by jesus-at-artWhen my shelf fell down, there was a whole lot of stuff that I had to sift through. I knew I wanted to keep some of it. Many people choose to throw everything...
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Gospel Medicine: Chapter 2 - Arthritis of the Spirit
This blog series is based on the book "Gospel Medicine" by Barbara Brown Taylor, an Episcopal minister who has written several books based on her own life and her sermons. "Gospel Medicine" is a book...
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Gospel Medicine: Chapter 3 - Family Values
This blog series is based on the book "Gospel Medicine" by Barbara Brown Taylor, an Episcopal minister who has written several books based on her own life and her sermons. "Gospel Medicine" is a book...
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Watershed
Watershed: an event or period marking a turning point in a course of action or state of affairsI went to the United Church today. I had been doing so much at the United Church lately that I figured it...
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Gospel Medicine: Chapter 4 - Blessed Brokenness
This blog series is based on the book "Gospel Medicine" by Barbara Brown Taylor, an Episcopal minister who has written several books based on her own life and her sermons. "Gospel Medicine" is a book...
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The Straw
Through the years there were things about the church that I had joined at seventeen that I didn't like and because I didn't understand it, I would put it "on the shelf" or "on the back burner" or "in...
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Gospel Medicine: Chapter 5 - Refreshing God's Memory
This blog series is based on the book "Gospel Medicine" by Barbara Brown Taylor, an Episcopal minister who has written several books based on her own life and her sermons. "Gospel Medicine" is a book...
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Book Review: Leaving Church - Barbara Brown Taylor
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith by Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor is an Episcopal Priest, first as an associate priest in large city parish in Atlanta and then as the minister in a small...
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Gospel Medicine: Chapter 6 - Late Bloomer
This blog series is based on the book "Gospel Medicine" by Barbara Brown Taylor, an Episcopal minister who has written several books based on her own life and her sermons. "Gospel Medicine" is a book...
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VT Message April 2014: The Divine Mission of Jesus Christ Savior and Redeemer
One of the things I have hung onto is visiting teaching.It doesn't always work. But right now I love my companion who has been my friend for the past 15 years, and I love the women I visit teach.And...
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