Living life as a modern Mormon has many facets. These articles explore what it means to be a member of the Church today.
Recently, in a fourth Sunday lesson from a General Conference talk, we studied D. Todd Christofferson's talk on the Savior called, "Abide in My Love." The link to the talk is at the bottom of this article. It really struck [...]
For many of the men in the Church no topic is as dreaded as a lesson on home teaching. Think of it like yet another lecture by your in-laws on how you aren’t measuring up in how well you support [...]
I wrote a series of articles on service and was roundly chastised by someone for coming dangerously close to denying the grace of Christ by not categorically renouncing that works have any part in our salvation, which isn’t true. After [...]
We are an inquisitive lot. We spend our lives trying to answer questions for which no one currently has answers. Sometimes we get lucky and think we have stumbled upon the answer to a particular mystery. We rejoice in our [...]
Spoiler alert! If you haven't seen the movie Passengers then you may want to hold off on this post until you have seen it. My wife and I wanted to see the movie, so we waited until the theater had [...]
I was making something this morning and decided to check my work. I became confused when what I was making wasn't matching what I was reading in the pattern. I had to tear out a large section of it and [...]
This is a personal observation and musing on the differences between how we see and treat births and deaths in our culture. It is not so much doctrinal as it is a private perspective brought on by a recent funeral. [...]
I approach the subject of mothers from a different perspective today. I recommend that mothers, and by extension women, are types and shadows of the perfect Christlike love. First I would like to talk about what types and shadows are then [...]
When the Church clarified its position with regards to the spiritual status of those who enter into same-sex marriages or relationships, and then clarified the position of how the children of those relationships were to be handled, many in the [...]
I have an update to this article at It Pays to Have Faith in the Brethren. I have to admit it. When I read that the Church had put couples living in same-sex marriages in the same category as polygamists and that excommunication [...]