A PARENT’S PERSPECTIVE: MAKING IT BETTER FOR OUR LGBT FAMILY MEMBERS

By Bryce Cook Address given at ALL Are Alike Unto God Conference, April 27, 2013 It’s my pleasure now to address you and express some of my feelings which are very tender here today as I look out and see so…

A Mother’s Wish

By Meg Abhau (also posted to their family blog http://theabhaus.blogspot.ca/) Do you remember your first stake dance? You are now 14 years old and you can go to your first stake dance. FINALLY! I remember mine. I could not wait to…

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…

A Grandmother Demonstrates Her Family Values

By Scott Van Tussenbrook Some of my favorite childhood memories are of times spent at Grandpa Tuss & Grandma Carol’s.  They lived in a little two-bedroom house on a third of an acre of property in Bountiful, Utah.  Their gigantic…

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…

Pride (In the Name of Love)

By Michael Cannon Originally Published at http://zelophehadsdaughters.com 10/17/2013 One man caught on a barbed wire fence One man he resist One man washed on an empty beach One man betrayed with a kiss In the name of love! What more in…