By Kim Pearson (Written Dec. 7, 2014) For months I have been feeling the promptings to share my testimony of how Father in Heaven has guided and given us answers to our prayers on how to be the parents of…
Category: Faith/Practice
A Sabbath Vow
By Jill Hazard Rowe Our first really cold day in Utah. As I lay here in my warm bed and listen to the hurling winds outside my mind is wandering to the five thousand homeless youth in Salt Lake City.…
LDS LGBT SUICIDE & HOMELESSNESS AWARENESS DAY
LDS/LGBT Affirmation 2014 – Who Knew!?!
By Emric and Melanie Delton (written shortly after the September 2014 Affirmation Conference in SLC) Emric: I did not know what it meant to be an LGBT person in an LDS environment. I did not know the anguish and struggle…
Know Thyself
by Jake Taylor Some may say that to be an artist, one must also be a troubled soul; he must be anguished and tormented, for in this struggle does he produce his finest art. Even if my opinion held any…
Holy Envy at Midnight
by Robert A. Rees I had holy envy1 in the middle of the night! Awakened by a strange dream, I opened my kindle and read a news report in the current New Yorker, “A Bombshell Document at the Vatican Synod.”2…
Refuge for My Soul
by Robert A. Rees One Sunday morning a number of years ago when I lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains, before departing for church, I read on the internet a statement by a Church leader about gays and lesbians which…
Complicating Factors in the LGBT Mormon Spiritual Path
I am contacted fairly frequently by parents or other family members of gay or lesbian Latter-day Saints. They are anxious for their gay or lesbian loved ones to somehow find a way to stay active in the LDS church. Even…
The Doctrine of Celibacy
When Mormons speak of the Law of Chastity, they often define it as remaining celibate until marriage. In actuality, it would be more properly defined as remaining abstinent until marriage. Today, the words abstinent and celibate are frequently used interchangeably,…
Are You There God? It’s Me, Nate.
By Nathan Alexander (also published at his blog livingoxymormon.com) I know we haven’t exactly been on speaking terms for the last little while…well…at least I know I haven’t really been speaking to you. As always, you’ve been the better person…