My Creed: Writing One’s Personal Articles Of Faith For millennia, Christians have distilled their beliefs into short statements, similar to Joseph Smith’s Articles of Faith. While the practice of a committee imposing a creedal statement of belief on members is anathema to Mormons, the use of the literary form of the creed by individuals is …
Speaker: Kenny Kemp
Reading. Oki’s Island: A Hero’s Journey
Reading. Oki’s Island: A Hero’s Journey “Eternal progression” sounds self-explanatory, but for many Latter-day Saints, the search for truth is considered accomplished when the seeker becomes a Mormon, following baptism, all that remains is to endure to the end. Kenny Kemp’s newest book, Oki’s Island, challenges such easy salvation. The book elucidates the classic hero’s …
STAGES OF FAITH: MORMON ENCOUNTERS
The model of faith development presented by James W. Fowler in his classic study, The Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning, has helped many people from a wide variety of religious traditions better understand their own faith journey. It has been embraced especially by many who feel they …