Polygamy is one of the main aspects of Mormon history and theology that sends previously true-believing Mormons spinning into a faith crisis. If you spend any time on the Bloggernacle, you’ll see it happening over and over again. As I’ve watched people go through this kind of crisis, I’ve noticed that it partakes in Elisabeth …
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Experiences of a Missionary Borderlander
By D. Jeff Burton I exchanged the following edited emails with Jeremy Jones (all names and details have been changed), a young man who is currently serving a mission in Ireland. Elder Jones: I thought you might find my situation interesting. I have always considered myself a Borderlander, but, as you’ve probably noticed by my …
The Faith Crisis: A Step in the Right Direction?
By Miguel Barker-Valdez Miguel Barker-Valdez is a proprietor of the Rational Faiths blog. I have read online a number of people writing something to the effect of, “The Gospel Topics Essays are what led to my faith crisis.” What they had once seen as anti-Mormon literature is now being admitted as historical truth …
How to Fix Your Sunday School Class Using These Three Easy Tricks
By Stephen Carter A friend of mine who works in the Church History Department once said that for every person who leaves the Church because of its history, two leave because of boredom. His estimate is probably conservative. I’m sure the Church has put time and resources into figuring out how to unbore its …
Questing and Questioning
By Philip L. Barlow I have before me a series of letters a private elementary school teacher reportedly assigned her students to address to God. The letters pose questions. They are often “cute”—after the order of Art Linkletter or Bill Cosby interviewing children on an old-fashioned television program. Here is one by a girl …
SLC 2013 Symposium/ Session 201: Faith-challenged marriages: The Dynamics of the Relationship of a Believer and a Non-Believer
Michael Vinson and Curtis Penfold present their topic on August 2, 2013. [powerpress]
Sharing Vulnerability after a Change in Beliefs
By Adam Fisher and Mary Fisher Or, right-click here to download the audio file: Sharing Vulnerability after a Change in Belief In this life the heart is going to be injured.1 Robert Hass ROBERT FROST ONCE said that love is an “irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”2 Psychologist Kent Hoffman added …