By Ted Lee Recently, my elders quorum had a lesson on “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.” Most Mormons are intimately familiar with it: a document released by the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles outlining a fairly direct summary of current lds beliefs regarding the nuclear family. First released …
Category: Mormon Thought
Productivity and the Mormon Busyness Ethic
By Roger Terry Or right-click here to download the audio file: Productivity and the Mormon Busyness Ethic Work is an important aspect of what it means to be Mormon. When we talk about the early Saints, we talk about how they wore out their lives helping to build the Kingdom. For …
Blood and Horror on this Earth
By Gina Colvin (An earlier version of this article was posted 9 September 2013 at Patheos.) THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS of Mormons all over the world attend temple services on a daily basis, all of them watching a metaphorical reenactment of the creation story. Included in this drama is an exchange between God and Satan. …
Mormonism and an Aesthetic Sense of Life
By Robert C. Hunsaker HOW TO LIVE—and live well—is a perennial problem. Our personal style of living—our sense of life—corresponds directly to general life satisfaction, or the lack thereof. As Carlisle Hunsaker puts it: A sense of life is either one of our most precious possessions, or the source of our private hell. …
Mormonism and a Tragic Sense of Life
By U. Carlisle Hunsaker Or, right-click here to download the audio file: Mormonism and a Tragic Sense of Life A SENSE OF life is either one of our most precious possessions, or the source of our private hell. It is the emotional corollary of our personal philosophy of life, or the …
Arrayed in Silence, I Gave Him Nothing: An Apologue of an Encounter with the Almighty God
By Jacob Baker Art by Galen Dara I am an instrument already rotten. I am too worn out. And even if I believed in the possibility of God’s consenting to repair the mutilations of my nature, I could not bring myself to ask it of him. Such a request would seem to me an offense …
Exploring Meditation and Awareness Practices in the Context of the Restored Gospel: One Mormon’s Story
By John T. Kesler Or, right-click here to download the audio file: Exploring Meditation and Awareness Practices in the Context of the Restored Gospel: One Mormon’s Story I believe that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has the potential to engender the most profound and comprehensive meditative tradition in the …
Arriving Where I Started: Disassembling and Reassembling a Testimony
By Boyd J. Petersen Art by Galen Dara We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. —T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” The Four Quartets Even with my MTC-level French and greenie cluelessness, when my …
Theologizing in the Presence of Burning Children: From Theodicy to Lament
By Jacob Baker The attempt to justify the Christian (or Mormon) God in the face of overwhelming evil and suffering is known among philosophers and theologians as the problem of evil. Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus formulated an early version of the problem: “Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does …
Sunstone’s Motherhood issue on KRCL
If you missed the live discussion of Sunstone’s special issue on Motherhood, the recording is now available. RadioActive host Troy Williams interviews guest editor Holly Welker, artist Galen Dara, contributing author Rachel Mabey Whipple, and Sunstone executive director Mary Ellen Robertson. Check it out here: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/krcl/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1930379/RadioActive/RadioActive!.May.11.Heavenly.Mother%27s.Daypodcast