My Religious Community: Wherever I Go, I Have a Caring Family
I recently read “Why Religion Matters: Making Selves Out of Others,” which is an essay on faith and community. It pointed to religiou...
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5 Places I Found the Atonement
During a commencement address, the late great author David Foster Wallace told the following joke. Two young fish were swimming along...
What I Heard When I turned off the Radio
My internet is out. It’s been out for more than two weeks, and according to my ISP, I’ve got at least one more week to go. This has p...
The Danger of “What Kind of Mormon are You?”
A new quiz recently began circulating on Facebook “What kind of Mormon are you, really?” And call me a no fun downer if you must (it’...
The Power of Belief and Why I Begin My Testimony with “I Believe”
Once a month I have the opportunity to teach a class made up of the teenage boys from my congregation. Last month the topic of the le...
Hope, Abinadi, and Following God’s Plan
A short time ago, I found my personal life rather devoid of hope. And when you lose hope, it becomes easy to blame yourself for all t...
Modesty, Modesty, Modesty!
Well now I’ve got your attention. Recently the one sure way to generate page hits on an LDS blog is to try and tackle the issue of mo...
A Compassion Test at Walmart and at Church
A Compassion Test at the Entrance of Walmart By Delisa Hargrove I couldn’t believe my eyes. Did I really see two homeless children a...
7 Ways God Answered My Prayers in the Past 7 Months
By Delisa Hargrove. Probably because of recent devastation throughout the world, friends on social media have loudly questioned if Go...