Category: Touchstones

A View from the East

For some reason, I always seem to come in on the end of a trend, so I had never read anything by Deepak Chopra until his 2008 book, The Third Jesus. As a lifelong Mormon, I’ve endured many Gospel Doctrine classes where time was spent speculating on how a few fish and a couple of …

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The Truth Inside

This time last year, I lost my lovely mother. While this event caused a very big door in my life to close, it also opened a window. I come from a very strong LDS family. Every discussion at every meal was about something Church-related. Everything I did or thought in my life was processed through …

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Even if It is Chilly

When we think of “opening a window,” most of us think of viewing some aspect of the outside world we know little about. We glimpse what it is like to be an American Muslim or how an itinerant fruit-picking family lives. We peek in on a Mormon in Nigeria or a highly paid fashion model …

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A Mission—Really?!

This article features Tom Kimball who is in violation of our code of conduct. For more info on Tom Kimball and his history, click here for the January 14, 2023 statement. As the chaos of the remodel drew to a close and the last of the carpet was laid, our two oldest children settled into …

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