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Equality or More Licked Cupcakes?: The New YM / YW Manuals
November 16, 2012
Today’s guest poster is Molly. Back when I was in elementary school, the teachers of Utah went on strike. Now, I was only about 10 so my memories may be skewed, but I remember being told there were non-teacher substitutes (“scabs,” if you will), who were willing to come teach a few days. When they [...]
Averting Human Extinction
November 14, 2012
Today’s guest poster is Tatiana, a crazy-cat-lady engineer entrepreneur scientist flexitarian mom wildlife-sanctuarian public-healthian global-developer pro-nuke feminist liberal Mormon. Averting Human Extinction party platform: There are 15 key points. Energy: Work with utility companies to aggressively move away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy including next-generation nuclear energy using reprocessed fuel. This will limit [...]
Mormon Policies on Politics and Conscience
October 17, 2012
Politics has raised public consciousness of Mormonism — what are the official policies on politics and conscience?
Discerning Between Our Own and God’s Desire
October 7, 2012
This is a guest post from Grace for Grace. I used to read the blog Musings on Mormonism (it hasn’t had a new post in over a year.) It is a blog from a former LDS member who is juggling family and spirituality and posts blogs that for the most part appear to be sincere. [...]
Receiving Revelation during General Conference
September 30, 2012
This is a guest post from Grace for Grace. I graduated from BYU in the spring of 2002 with a Bachelor’s degree and registered for a Masters degree program that offered evening classes that fall. At the time, I was working part time as a business development consultant for a large company in Provo, Utah. I [...]
Lessons Learned Living as a Homeless Man
September 23, 2012
This is a guest post from Grace for Grace. He runs a blog by the same name. It was about 5:45 p.m. one Friday evening as I drove my car a few blocks away from the food bank and parked it ambiguously. I hadn’t showered for two days and had about 5 days of facial hair growth [...]
You Don’t have to be Perfect to Receive Revelation from God
September 2, 2012
This is the first post from Grace for Grace. He runs his own blog with the same name. In Elder’s Quorum last Sunday, one comment stood out to me. The elder in our group shared an experience where he felt that as long as we are doing “all the right things” we will be in [...]
Blood and Sins of this Generation
August 19, 2012
The 2nd Article of Faith states: “We believe that men will be apunished for their bown sins, and not for Adam’s ctransgression.” In the temple, we learn that we can become clean from the “blood and sins of this generation.” If we’re only punished for our own sins, what does this phrase from the temple mean? Does the 2nd Article [...]
Which frequency are you on?
June 24, 2012
Today’s guest post is from An Imperfect Saint. I am 36 years old. I was born “under the covenant” and was active in the church from the time I was small. I have had a few times where I was functionally inactive, but the longest time was about six months. I was molested as a [...]
Metaphors for Dealing with the Tough Issues
May 22, 2012
Today’s guest post is by M. Taylor McKeown. I consider myself a believer in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I would call myself a “True Believing Mormon” except that term has taken on a whole lot of baggage that I’m not sure I fully understand. But I believe in the basic [...]
Maybe All Roads Lead to Rome After All
May 21, 2012
This is a guest post from commenter Paul. He runs his own blog A Latter-day Voice. I had a missionary companion who presented a paper at a forum at a local university. The title of his paper was “All Roads Do Not Lead to Rome.” His position, as one would expect from an LDS missionary, was that [...]
In Defense of the Defensive
March 6, 2012
Questioning another member’s beliefs may attack his or her very foundation. Guest poster Alliegator returns to question your defensiveness!
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 [...]