Earth Day: Creator and Creation
Guest Post by: Jay Griffith As I was running with my dog Echo along a trail on the east bench the other morning I saw the sun ignite a patch of the Oquirrh mountains to …
043: A Conversation with Emma Lou Thayne
“I get impatient with dogma and dictum, but somewhere way inside me and way beyond impatience or indifference there is that insistent, infernal, so help me, sacred singing — All is well, All is well. …
Limping in Faith
If you’re reading this, then you’ve probably experienced religious doubt at some point in your life. Perhaps you’re currently in full-blown faith-crisis mode. Perhaps you’re just teetering, pushed to the edge of your spiritual convictions …
Reconstruction as a Way of Life
When I was a college freshman I took Intro to Modern Western Philosophy. The first book we read was René Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy. You might not expect a 400 year old philosophy tome …
Wisdom in Doubt
How much anxiety, discomfort and uncertainty can you tolerate? I think this is an important question with regard to faith and faith crises. So many of us seek for certainty, truth and a life free …
041-042: Dan McDonald and Gethsemanesia
Dan McDonald is a husband, father, lawyer, author. His book, Gethsemamnesia: Forgotten Lessons From Gethsemane, Golgotha and Beyond, chronicles the lessons he learned while dealing with a life threatening disease. The evolution of his faith has been shaped …
Are you LDS?
I was recently asked by a coworker if I am LDS. I’m no stranger to this question; after all, I live in Utah. Mormons are thick on the ground here, so inquiry about my membership …
Un-testimony
When I first joined the Church as a high school junior, fast and testimony meetings were my favorite. I loved the stream of affirmation that flowed down from the pulpit, assuring me that the tiny …
Losing Shelf Control
I don’t know if there is a God, but I used to. I was born and raised a Mormon, and from a young age, I was taught that if I did all the right things—searching …
039-040: Adam Miller on Grace
While preparing for this interview with Adam Miller, whom Richard Bushman described as “the most original and provocative Latter-day Saint theologian practicing today,” I was delighted to have my paradigm yanked out from under me …