Tag: Proclamation on the Family

Fallen Bodies, Eternal Genders

By Ted Lee Ted Lee blogs at The Religiously Sanctioned Co-Habitation Chronicles, raises a family, and is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia studying archives and records management.     Or download the audio here: “Fallen Bodies, Eternal Genders”     Recently, my elders quorum had a lesson on “The Family: A …

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Fallen Bodies, Eternal Genders

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 …

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Staying at Home in a Daddly Fashion

One Sunday, our son came home from Primary clutching a strip of white paper. On it was the line he was supposed to memorize and repeat in the upcoming Primary program. It read, “A father’s role is to provide. My father works to provide for our family.” I recognized it as a variation on the words and ideas in “The Family: A Proclamation to the World”

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