Annoying False Doctrines

White-Washing

Why I Am Not a Disaffected Mormon

Conflict, peace and peacemaking. The LDS difference.
I was looking at a news item. Canadian School of Peacebuilding Research studies verify what experience tells us: the majority of Christian congregations endure internal conflict. At any given time, one fifth of congregations are engaged in serious conflict. Conflict is a fact of congregational life that can be skillfully or awkwardly managed. This course will [...]

Perspective
Everybody blogs, right? Why not me? Looking for my niche, my angle, and the one thing that seemed to make me stand out in my corner of the world. I found it: Being single. And 40. And Mormon. In a family ward. In a town where EVERYONE is under 30, sealed in the [...]

A British Thanksgiving (on the Down-Low)
This is kind-of an impromptu post and so I hope you can forgive the intrusion.  But, I love Thanksgiving.  Ever since I celebrated it for the first time as a missionary I was hooked.  Good food.  Fun. Gratitude.  Consequently I decided that I would want to continue that tradition as best I could for my family.  [...]

Is New Moon the New Cool? -By Amita Benedetti
For anyone vaguely familiar with the Latter-day Saints, the many parallels between the Twilight Saga and the Church’s theology will be apparent. As a mother of two and full-time secondary school teacher, I was adamant not to read the novels in spite of having been asked, begged and ordered a countless number of times this year, [...]

10 LDS Things I’m Thankful for
Thanksgiving is, IMO, the perfect holiday:  good food, a day off work, and no presents to worry about.  In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I wanted to post 10 Things I’m Thankful for about the church and ask that each of you share what you are thankful for. While there’s a tendency at times in the Bloggernacle [...]