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Sharing Christ

Please welcome Ardis E. Parshall (Keepapitchinin) who is guest posting with us.  This is a kind of post I seldom write. Actually, I think I have never written a post like this, but I’m entering my...

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“Remember” as a Missionary Principle

My mind is prone to wandering to and fro trying to understand everything I read and hear a little better as I go about my daily life. I am an explorer by nature – not a physical explorer, but rather a...

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Women Giving Blessings in the Early LDS Church

This is the second in a series by our writers and guests regarding spiritual gifts. We hope you enjoy our take on giving and receiving spiritually this Christmas season. On the first Sunday of the...

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Gay Marriage and Proposition 8, Part 1

Next month, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8. Today was the deadline for outside groups to file briefs with the court offering their...

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Part 2: American Assumptions about Orientation and Identity

This essay is the second in a series about Gay Marriage and Proposition 8. In Part One, I discussed how same-sex affection, though varying in intensity from individual to individual, is an inherent...

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Part 3: Gay Rights in Our Time and Place

This essay is the third in a series about Gay Marriage and Proposition 8. Gay rights are difficult to talk about because we don’t have a clear line between talking about same-gender sexual activity and...

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Part 4: Why Does a Word Matter?

This essay is the fourth in a series about Gay Marriage and Proposition 8. It is difficult to estimate just how much human energy, in the forms of volunteer man hours and donated money, went into the...

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Part 5: What is Marriage?

This essay is the fifth in a series about Gay Marriage and Proposition 8. Is the institution of marriage just about recognizing couples “who have chosen to share one another’s lives in an intimate and...

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Part 6: In Which I Finally Get to Gay Marriage

This essay is the sixth and final in a series about Gay Marriage and Proposition 8. Marriage evolved early to protect the vertical relationships between generations and only more recently to protect...

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Mormon Women’s Involvement with the Sacred: Reflections on Kris Wright’s...

Some Mormon women: Driggs sisters, photograph in possession of the author On Thursday, September 12th I had the opportunity to hear Kris Wright, co-author of Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism with J....

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