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Signs of a True Church @ By Common Consent
- Why would I feel a sense of loss if this church in the Cook Islands decided to be more...
Why LDS Women Turn to the Media @ By Common Consent
- Natalie Brown reflects on how the recent New York Times piece about women and temple...
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington @ Times & Seasons
- Joseph Smith’s presidential campaign has been an area of interest for several years now...
A Non-Believer’s Benediction for Cumorah, and Other Things @ By Common Consent
- A little less than two weeks ago, the church broadcast a Hill Cumorah Commemorative...
“This is Elias” @ Times & Seasons
- In both the Vision studied recently (D&C 76) and the first revelation studied this...
Fathers, Friendship, and Holding onto Your Platoon (or Not) @ By Common Consent
- [Cross-posted to In Medias Res] This old Cal Grondahl cartoon, from many years ago, has...
Notes on the Priesthood and Temple Ban @ By Common Consent
- [Preface: I bought the house I currently live in back in 1988. Since then I have attended...
Paid clergy isn’t priestcraft @ Times & Seasons
- But I’m still glad we don’t have one. For the sake of this discussion, I’m not...
A Scriptural Prank @ Times & Seasons
- One day while I was serving my mission, my companion told me that he knew the name of the...
“Bodies Terestrial and not bodies Celestial” @ Times & Seasons
- As I was working on my previous post, I had a thought I wanted to explore, but not enough...
Your own planet @ By Common Consent
- Last week, a friend posted on facebook that the Gospel Topic Essay “Becoming Like...
“They cannot come worlds without end” @ Times & Seasons
- One of the methods that paleontologists use to understand the age of a fossil in relation...
HIPAA and the Church @ By Common Consent
- Just to be clear, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...
Ruf aus der Wüste 5.3: Hyde on Missouri @ Times & Seasons
- The experience of persecution in Missouri was not just recent history. For Hyde, it was...
Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 76: The Vision @ Times & Seasons
- Poetry for this week’s Come Follow Me lesson, D&C section 76, The Vision of the...
“Exhortation to the churches” @ Times & Seasons
- It can be easy at times, when studying the early history of the Church through the lens...
Social Justice Sunday School @ By Common Consent
- A guest post from Christina Taber-Kewene My husband of twenty years gazes back at me from...
Mormon Men Write Their Own Script @ By Common Consent
- [part 7 in an ongoing series about LDS missions and missionary work] The organizers of...
A Whole Lot of Hugh Nibley @ Times & Seasons
- Some years ago, I attended a course on the Pearl of Great Price at the Logan Institute...
Thank you for your honesty. Seriously. @ By Common Consent
- I am an old mom. Not by Mormon standards, but by legitimate biological standards. I am...
We did okay @ Times & Seasons
- If you survey the damage left by Donald Trump and Covid-19 in our neighborhood of the...
Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 71-75: Criticism, Consecration and Proclamation @ Times & Seasons
- Poetry for this week’s Come Follow Me lesson, D&C sections 71-75, addressing...
Lit Come Follow Me: D&C 67-70: The Lord’s Witness, Inspiration, and Parenting @ Times & Seasons
- Poetry for this week’s Come Follow Me lesson, D&C sections 67-70, addressing The...
“When moved upon by the Holy Ghost” @ Times & Seasons
- At this point in the year, we’ve finally caught back up with the context of where we...
Ruf aus der Wüste 5.2: Hyde on wealth @ Times & Seasons
- Orson Hyde, socialist? * * * Noah was lifted up over the surface of the earth in the ark...
Mental Health Professionals in Support of Natasha Helfer @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
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Come Follow Me “correction” As Harmful As Before @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- Dear Latter-day Saints,
The latest online correction to the Come Follow Me manual has me...
Authority, Scripture, and Social Location @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- By Margaret Olsen Hemming
Over the last couple of years, I’ve described The Book of...
Pop Culture Friday: Justice In America @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- It’s been awhile since I promo-ed a podcast. Today I’m spotlighting a more serious...
Pop Culture Friday: Jane the Virgin @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- If you are looking for a binge-worthy TV show with fantastic characters, great acting, a...
Pop Culture Friday: Dread Nation @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- Today’s (slightly late, sorry, the school year just started and my brain is mostly...
Pop Culture Friday: The Memory of Light and Disappeared @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- I have a 2-in-1 recommendation for you today, two excellent books by Francisco X....
Pop Culture Friday: The Poet X @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- I love a good slam poem, one full of emotion and power and truth. One of the great...
Pop Culture Friday: The Witch Boy @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- Aster’s family keeps to themselves. They live in the woods outside of town and have...
Pop Culture Friday: #WizardTeam @ Feminist Mormon Housewives
- Today I want to highlight one of my favorite podcasts: #WizardTeam by Black Girls...
