Recently, I went to the temple with a friend. Since I am excommunicated, I obviously can’t enter the temple proper. But I love the feeling I get when I am close to the temple. In the St. Paul Temple, there’s…
Category: Faith/Practice
The Ministry of Homosexuality: Exploring the Heart of the Matter
A speech given at the PFLAG Open House in September of 2012 at Snow College by Dr. James Birrell, a retired professor at BYU and presently an adjunct professor at UVU, who teaches Multicultural Studies has supported the values and…
Salt Lake: We Have a Problem
I’m gonna tell God how you treat me I’m gonna tell God how you treat me I’m gonna tell God how you treat me ` One of these days –Hollis Watkins, “I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table/One of These…
We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout
We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout: Thoughts after Conference I recently read a poem by the poet Rumi that I found quite profound. The poem is an invitation, titled “Come, Come, Whoever you are.” Its message, I feel, is the same…
Missionary Work Within Our Own Wards
By Doree Burt I hesitate to share this because I don’t want it to sound braggy, please know that is not my intention. But maybe it will help us all find our feet again and remember that there is still…
Who We Really Are–How I Learned About Love And Acceptance By Failing To Follow The Spirit And Supporting Yes On 8
By Ana Nelson Shaw Intended for cross-post at mitchmayne.blogspot.com and nomorestrangers.org I’m the oldest of six children, born in Utah and brought up moving all over the country. Two of my three brothers are gay. Jake, almost four years…
The Heart of the Matter: Capstone Address at the Compassionate Care Conference
The Heart of the Matter: Capstone Address at the Compassionate Care Conference (Seattle, 17 August 2013) Over the past day and a half, we have had the opportunity to listen to and consider a wide range of opinions, beliefs, thoughts, arguments…
Good Samaritans and God’s Confirmation
By Vicki Wimmer Johnson Nearly 4 months ago I was on the side of the I-10 highway about 100 miles from Phoenix in a destroyed Nissan Armada; we had been hit from behind by an 18 wheeler. I was terrified…
God’s Strategy
By Matt Mosman (also posted at http://mitchmayne.blogspot.com/) . Good morning, brothers and sisters. Always a pleasure to see so many of my friends here in the El Camino Ward. A few months ago one of our other high councilmen, Rob Hansen, cornered…
An Increase of Love
By Bryan Hendrickson I know many of us felt a fair amount of emotion over this past conference weekend. I myself went through a range of it, all the while trying to keep it all inside so that no one…