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When I was a younger the phrase “burning in the bosom” always made me giggle. I mean, it was hard to say the word ‘bosom’ without thinking of large-breasted great aunts with names like “Deloris.” As I got older and realized the difficulty of using language to describe my own spiritual experiences into [...]
In the most recent Sunstone there’s an interesting little story in Jeff Burton’s Borderlands column. It’s about a husband and wife who are finding their way back into activity in the Church. They talk about going on a pioneer trek reenactment with their daughter:
“The feeling of the Spirit was tangible at that trek. It occurred [...]
A blog post about Levi Peterson’s recent autobiography over at The Cultural Hall reminded me that I had intended to post Peterson’s classic 1988 Sunstone symposium speech (and later Sunstone magazine article) “A Christian by Yearning” shortly after posting my own blog post on the subject. Peterson borrows the name of his 1988 address [...]
I like reading Oprah Magazine better than I like reading the scriptures.
There, I said it. I find a lot of inspiration, motivation and truth in…..Oprah Magazine. My husband makes fun of me for it (lovingly, of course) and I’m sometimes a bit embarrassed at the confession of being a die-hard Oprah fan, but I guess [...]
A rather random comment from my not-Mormon brother-in-law was a catalyst in changing my feelings about raising my children in the church. He said something to the effect of: “I would never allow my daughter to participate in an organization or an institution that discriminated against her because she’s a girl.” What [...]
Some time ago I visited a web site for Mormon misfits (www.misfitmormon.com). As I read through the posts there, I wondered to myself, “What kind of eldritch creatures might these ‘Morms Out of the Norm’ be?”
There have been a few exchanges about Sunstone on one of my email discussion groups in the past several days that have given voice to a sentiment I hear from time to time: that Sunstone seems to have gone “soft.” The main protagonist in that online conversation claimed that it “seems the era of challenging [...]
In the thirtieth chapter of Alma we are treated to the story of Korihor. While reading this account recently I found myself quite sympathetic to him. It’s rather disturbing to sit in Sacrament meeting reading Alma and identifying with an antichrist, but identify I did.
In the current issue of Sunstone, Jody England Hansen describes faith as “…knowing that anything is possible in life. And that what I do makes a difference.” She describes the first condition for creating this kind of faith as choice. She had a powerful learning experience when a leader pointed out that there are three [...]
In a recent series of interviews with John Dehlin at Mormon Stories, Richard Bushman made some comments about Sunstone and the Sunstone Symposium that strike at a number of challenges those of us in this community face. I don’t want this post to overshadow the significance of the content of these interviews, as the comments [...]
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