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Living Theology: Lowell L. Bennion
Where to start with Lowell Bennion, a man whose virtues almost defy enumeration? Best, perhaps, to follow his own example and cut to “the weightier matters.” [1] Although he was a theologian, teaching...
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At the Feet of Christ
We’re glad to feature another guest post by Ashley Mae Hoiland. See her first post here. When I was in high school, I was compelled by internal forces to spend a good amount of time celebrating...
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As a Little Child
Elijah (age 4) is one of the blog’s younger friends. He likes Star Wars, superheroes, and Thelonious Monk. He gave this talk in Primary today. We share it with his (and his parents’) permission. When...
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Celebrating Dr. King
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Two years ago, as part of the Mormon Lectionary Project, John offered us a remembrance...
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Airing My Dirty Laundry
[B]y love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Galatians 5:12-13 Our Sacrament Meeting theme last week was on service....
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“Ye will not suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to perish. Perhaps thou shalt say: The man has brought upon himself his misery; therefore I will stay my...
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LDS Hurricane Relief
September 1992. Hurricane Andrew hit Florida. I was a little girl in Sarasota. I remember the tense days as the Weather Channel blared, my mom charted the Hurricane’s course by hand, the city boarded...
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The Psychology of the Good Samaritan
O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Micah 6:8). While attending a legal ethics seminar last Saturday, I...
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The Temporal Urgency of Faith
Photo by Wonderlane on Unsplash Introductory Note: Several years ago during General Conference I started journaling the messages my soul most longed to hear. I posted one of those last Conference....
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Sheep and Goats in a Pandemic
Sheep and goats in corrals. The Field Museum Library. No know copyright restrictions. Yesterday my family and I took a bike ride to downtown Chicago. (Under Illinois’s stay-at-home order, biking for...
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