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What Is Your Worship Style? (Quiz!)
March 3, 2012
Today’s guest post is from Bloggernacle favorite EmJen who adapted an online quiz for a Mormon audience. I thought it would be interesting to see what forms of worship speak most to us, the Wheat & Tares audience, individually and collectively. Also, as you consider the results, are these typical for Mormons? Are there some [...]
No Longer the Party of Lincoln
February 29, 2012
Today’s guest post is from newcomer Fruitless Hope. Over the past couple of weeks, as some Republicans have attacked women’s healthcare, it has struck me that this is no longer the “Party of Lincoln.” To be fair, I cannot assert that Abraham Lincoln would be a Democrat today. Fairer still, my own Democratic Party has also [...]
Finding Peace and Forgiveness
February 26, 2012
Today’s guest post is from bloggernacle favorite SilverRain. Like all great disasters, divorce brought out both the best and the worst in me. For some, divorce is a rather cavalier affair, somewhere on the scale between losing one’s job and losing a loved one to death. But because of my particular set of weaknesses, it [...]
The Future of the Church: Evolve… or Burn?
February 22, 2012
Will the church evolve to stop the train of apostasy? When the Sicans felt their religion had failed them, they burned their temples.
Strengthening Families vs. Fighting Gay Marriage
February 19, 2012
Today’s guest post is from A Friend. In light of the recent Prop 8 decision in California, the church issued the following statement: “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints regrets today’s decision. California voters have twice determined in a general election that marriage should be recognized as only between a man and a [...]
A Letter to my Almost Prophet
February 15, 2012
This afternoon’s post is by guest author Childe Jake. His other posts can be seen here and here. His personal blog is at http://thejakefoyer.blogspot.com/. Dear Dr. Carl Sagan, In The Demon-Haunted World, you write of a struggle that took place in your heart over whether or not there is an afterlife. You preface this struggle by introducing readers [...]
A Primer on Market Regulation
December 7, 2011
Today’s guest post is by long time commenter Cowboy. JMB275 had asked me to share a few thoughts relative to discussing how much market regulation is reasonable, and where to draw the line. I don’t intend for this post to be a total consideration of that question, but perhaps to just serve as an introduction [...]
It’s a Small(er) World After All
November 9, 2011
Today’s guest post is by long-time commenter Paul. You can find his own blog at http://www.alatterdayvoice.blogspot.com/ The bloggernacle, the world of LDS blogging, became just a little smaller for me last week. I had lunch with jmb275, a W&T perma. It was great to put a name and face with a blogger id. Thanks to [...]
Letter from a concerned brother-in-law
October 27, 2011
Today, we present a guest post by Brian, a commenter to the site and a non-believer with active LDS family members. I received a letter from my brother-in-law the other day. I am a convert to the church of 41 years and currently inactive. I went on a mission a year-and-a half after joining. From [...]
For Lack of Sweet, a Bitter Farewell
August 24, 2011
Today’s Guest post is by Childe Jake. His first post can be found here, and his personal blog is at:http://thejakefoyer.blogspot.com/ Certain places have a distinct hold on me. When I visit them, I feel a force begin to work in me. It isn’t some rapturous pull beyond explanation, but it is visceral and profound. After [...]
And Thus Was The End: Osama Bin Laden
May 2, 2011
The following is a guest post from Morgan Deane, researcher on warfare and the Book of Mormon. Today we have seen many comments all over the internet criticizing the too-eager celebration of Bin Laden’s, (or any human being’s) death. Deane gives another viewpoint informed by his reading of Latter-day scripture and modern music. I had [...]
I Feel the Sky Tumbling Down
March 14, 2011
An essay by BiV’s brother, Ken Matsushima, who lives in Yamanashi, Japan. “I feel the earth move under my feet. I feel the sky tumbling down.” Those who know how much I love music, and what a central place it has in my daily consciousness, will understand why that melody began playing inside my head [...]
Paradox
March 7, 2011
by guest poster MFranti Standing high on the Wasatch Fault, I peer across a 35 mile expanse to the adjacent mountain range and see a great and spacious* valley littered with concrete and glass buildings, stucco houses, and giant metal factories belching pollution into the air. I get a tiny bit of satisfaction thinking that [...]
I Don’t Believe in Noah’s Flood, and Why I Think That’s OK
February 2, 2011
By Guest Poster Joseph Antley I am a skeptical Mormon. My skeptical nature isn’t something that I think that I can overcome, and it’s not something I’m sure I want to overcome. I’ve been asked more than once by active believing Mormons if I’m going to apostatize from the LDS Church. That’s sort of a [...]
My Testimony of Life and Mind
January 19, 2011
Today’s Guest post is by Childe Jake, a rather newly hatched blogger with an uncanny ability to convey his thoughts in a clear and enlightening way. His blog can be found at: http://thejakefoyer.blogspot.com/ I’d like to bear you my testimony, but I do not presume to know for certain that it is true. My post [...]
Woman in the Priesthood
December 11, 2010
Today’s guest post is by TH, who is a woman serving in the Office of High Priest in the Community of Christ. Since this portion of the Restoration has ordained women to priesthood for nearly a generation, she offers a prospective “after the dust has settled” on a topic which remains controversial to both traditional [...]
The Great One is Kolob, Because It is Near unto Me
December 8, 2010
Providing another take on Kolob, we are pleased to have this guest post by Joseph Antley, a student of history and ancient Near Eastern studies. I am not an Egyptologist, nor do I have any formal training in Egyptology. But I do love the Pearl of Great Price’s Book of Abraham, and I enjoy learning [...]
Change without Change
November 29, 2010
Today’s guest post is by David H. There is a well known tension among Mormonism’s principles that God never changes and yet continues to reveal things that look like change. It was important when the practice on priesthood/temple and race/lineage was ended that the change be understood not as a rejection of a fundamental doctrine, [...]
CHI Training Impressions
November 22, 2010
This post is from Ray Degraw. He runs his own blog called Things of My Soul, and has blogged at Mormon Matters and StayLDS. Everyone in the Bloggernacle knows him simply as ‘Ray’. Last week, he attended the worldwide training for the recently distributed Church Handbook of Instructions and wanted to share his impressions. I am not a natural note [...]