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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleWomen 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...
View ArticleGay 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...
View ArticlePart 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...
View ArticlePart 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...
View ArticlePart 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...
View ArticlePart 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...
View ArticlePart 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...
View ArticleMormon 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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