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Love One Another A Panel On Mormon Families And Congregations Experiencing A Crisis Of Faith
Many Latter-day Saint families and congregations experience conflict and even division when one or more members experience a crisis of faith or actually separate from the faith. The authors of a new approach for helping families negotiate this challenging territory discuss the reality of family divisions over faith and offer helpful strategies based on love …
Dialogue Jubilee Celebrating Fifty Years Of Mormonism S Leading Journal
Beginning with its first issue, which showed two people sitting under a tree engaged in conversation, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought has encouraged dialogue by publishing leading-edge scholarly articles, personal essays, fiction, poetry, sermons and other writing that have engaged Latter-day Saints on vital subjects within Mormonism and in its interface with the world. …
A Quest For Holiness A Devotional
A quest for holiness is one of the more challenging dimensions of discipleship. Holiness is not something God can give but rather something we must desire and then pursue through conscious effort and unconscious yearning. Because holiness requires an ultimate commitment and a total surrender, few achieve it—or, achieving it, are able to sustain it. …
New Directions And New Opportunities For Addressing Malnutrition Among Lds Children
Severe, acute malnutrition affects tens of thousands of Latter-day Saint children in the developing world. Currently, the Liahona Children’s Foundation is addressing the critical needs of more than 11,000 children in over 180 stakes in 17 countries, from Africa to Mongolia. Through its Adopt-a-Stake program and other efforts, the Foundation seeks to expand its work …
Misreading Scripture The Abrahamic Sacrifice Reconsidered
Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of his son, Isaac, is often seen as the great paradigm for absolute faith and unquestioning obedience. Blind obedience has become the ultimate obedience—whether it is women acquiescing to polygamy, blacks accepting priesthood limitations, gays practicing celibacy, and, most recently, LDS Church members accepting the official account of the Church’s policy change …
The Lds Church S Policy Changes On Lgbt Parents And Their Children
This panel will discuss the implications of the LDS Church’s most recent policy regarding LGBT couples and their families. Carol Lynn Pearson, Caitlyn Ryan, Mitch Mayne, Robert A. Rees
Why The Heart Is As Important As The Brain Combining New Science With Ancient Wisdom
Jesus said, “As a person thinks in her heart, so is she.” Long thought to be just a metaphor, the idea of a thinking heart is now supported by scientific findings revealing that the heart has its own nervous system with an electrical field 60 times greater in amplitude than that of the brain. It …
The Environment A Moral Issue For The Saints
Climate change and other environmental issues are threatening the long-term survival of our planet. It is a moral issue for all Christians, yet in the United States and many of the rest of the world’s governmental bodies seem incapable of coming up with solutions, mostly because there is money that can be made by exploiting …
Sunday School Psychotherapy Mormon Poets On Vulnerability And Madness Healing And Hope
Brigham Young once called Joseph Smith a poetÑand poets, Brigham continued, “are not like other [people]; their gaze is deeper, and reaches the roots of the soul” Such vision, he said, is akin to having “the searching eyes of angels” with which poets can “catch the swift thought of God and reveal it to us, …