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Practicing Grace

Once in a while, you come across a talk or essay so eloquent, so profound, that you want to shout it from the rooftops. Brad Wilcox’s July 12th BYU Devotional is one of those messages. I highly recommend watching it here, downloading the MP3 here or reading the PDF here. Some of my favorite ideas: [...]

To Not Have Sinned

I plead with you, my brothers and sisters, my young friends and my older friends, avoid transgression! The idea that one is better off after one has sinned and repented is a devilish lie of the adversary. Elder Dallin H. Oaks, “Sin and Suffering,” BYU Speeches, Aug. 5, 1990 She was our guest speaker in [...]

Am I a Donkey?

Q: What is the purpose of life? Typical LDS A: It’s our time to prepare to meet God, to prove ourselves worthy to live again with Heavenly Father. Who am I to quibble with the Abraham 3: 24-26? “And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord [...]

A Woman of Grace

This is the quote that has alternately inspired and frustrated me this summer: You have met, or know, a woman like this: She brightens a room, can literally alter the energy before she opens her mouth. Her presence alone is uplifting, her warmth is genuine radiance, and her eye contact feels like a gift. Her [...]

Through My Window

Stephanie is a not-so-young mom of three young children.  Her daily life consists mostly of caring for her family, finding matching socks, thinking of something to make for dinner, reading or writing something that uplifts her, and occasionally shaving her legs.  Stephanie blogs about finding faith in the trenches of motherhood at Diapers and Divinity.  [...]

Rock the Boat (don’t tip the boat over…)

You know how you can pinpoint the exact place and time you were when you learned about the events on September 11th? Certain days become frozen in time; indelible impressions that mark a change. On 9-11 I was leaving to shop for a washing machine. My in-laws were visiting. My mother-in-law was upstairs ironing. There [...]

I’m Not Perfect. Can I Still Go to Heaven?–An Interview with Anthony Sweat

Anthony Sweat is a full-time religious educator, currently teaching seminary at West High in Salt Lake City, and a regular speaker at Especially For Youth and Education Week conferences. He is the co-author of the bestselling book WHY? Powerful Answers and Practical Reasons for Living LDS Standards, and the author of the newly-released I’m Not [...]

And the Soul Felt Its Worth

I sat in my car, my hands gripping the steering wheel, glaring at the front end loader inching its way across the road. Perhaps the sheer force of my gaze could speed the thing up? But no. It lurched forward, then back, then forward, then back, performing what appeared to be a 39-point turn to [...]

What a Difference 30 Years Makes

First time blogger Heather Bennion Judd shares her recent “tough day” cathartic writing at the coaxing of a friend.  Not the B.A. in English from BYU, but rather the small stack of short stories, poetry and essays that she’s written since the 4th grade should have been a clue that this day of virtual “publication” [...]

Legacy

Grandpa hides a small box of still-shiny medals away in a drawer where no one can find them. “War is hell,” he said flatly. He won’t talk about the war. He never saw combat. He said it was terrible, whatever he saw. It was 1943, the height of World War II. At seventeen, my grandfather [...]

Burying our Weapons of War

The newest installment in July’s “Up Close” series on Inactivity and Faith struggles is Kim, a mother of four daughters and seven granddaughters. To balance things out her husband has been involved in Boy Scouts for 20 of their 36 years of marriage…so they have many wonderful young men in their lives. Now that all [...]

Join the Club

We all belong to exclusive insider clubs. Don’t worry, these insider clubs have absolutely nothing to do with the stock market. The only way you can join an insider club is to pay the price. The members of insider clubs are pretty tight because outsiders just don’t seem to understand. I joined the Child of a [...]

My most thankful Thanksgiving ever

It was nothing apparently dramatic. In fact, it was more on the order of “suddenly she realized” as in badly written fiction. Roll back to 2001. We were living in Silicon Valley, and the internet bubble had burst. Richard G. Scott had said in conference that the gospel invariably led to peace and joy, but [...]

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