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Saturday, December 26, 2009

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Mantra for Sanity

Mantra for Sanity
"Belief is tricky, because left to its own devices it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference." -Barbara Kruger

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Favorite Posts (Clean Cut)

  • "'A Prophet is not always a Prophet' only when he is acting as such"
  • "That They May Be One As We Are One"
  • "Uncomfortably negative for some, insufficiently critical for others"
  • "Where truth flies you follow If you are a pioneer"
  • An Inconvenient Truth: Lowry Nelson was right; The First Presidency was wrong
  • Dear Elder Christofferson
  • Glorying "in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ"
  • Grace: Like An Oasis in the Desert
  • Guest Post at Rational Faiths: Putting Down Our Stones
  • Holy Hope For Holy Leadership
  • How Do You Define A "Christian"?
  • Improving Our Sacrament Meetings
  • Mormonism: A Sausage Makers Religion
  • My Paradigm Shift-"Joseph Smith, Rough Stone Rolling"
  • My Take on Joseph Smith's King Follet Sermon
  • Not So Clean Cut
  • On Being Seasick While Staying In The Boat
  • Prophetic Expectations
  • Terryl Givens on the "Prophetic Mantle"; Myth of Infallibility
  • The Chief End of God
  • The Church's Cardinal Sin of Blasphemy/Idolatry
  • Why I Don't Believe That God Instituted The Priesthood Ban

My Values: Radical Acceptance and Unconditional Love

My Values: Radical Acceptance and Unconditional Love

I Choose Authenticity

I Choose Authenticity

Favorite Posts From Other Blogs

  • "We are to embrace all truth not just the convenient truth"
  • "Why Aren't The Women Included In This?"
  • A Little Slack For Ex-Mormons
  • Are Mormons Christian?
  • Are Mormons Christians? Are Post Toasties corn flakes?
  • Are We Paying Too Much Tithing?
  • Bushman's Introduction to "Joseph Smith and His Critics" Seminar
  • Correlation: An Uncorrelated History
  • For My Son on his 18th Birthday
  • How Corporatism Has Undermined and Subverted The Church of Jesus Christ
  • How To Be A Good Anti-Mormon
  • How to Win Friends and Influence Mormons
  • I the Lord Am Bound
  • Imposed Openess
  • Is There Another Approach?
  • Joseph Smith’s Revelations on Preexistence and Spirits
  • Make Some Room!
  • Mixed Messages
  • Morality? We can do much better than this…
  • Mormons Who Doubt
  • Mormons and the problem of selective obedience
  • On Idolatry, Institutional Repentance, and Grace
  • Perverting Modesty
  • Pride, Gross Iniquity, And Suffering For One’s Sins
  • Put Away Our Telescopes? Not a Chance! The Heavens are Calling.
  • So you saw Big Love, then Googled to find out more about this Mormon temple weirdness, and ended up here.
  • The Benefits Of Fallible Prophets
  • The False Gods We Worship
  • The Liturgy of Jello
  • The Mormon Jesus and the Love of God
  • The Trouble with Chicken Patriarchy
  • Thinking Myself into Mormonism
  • Tripartite existentialism
  • Uncorrelated tips for how NOT to be a terrible Bishop
  • What "Sustaining" Our Leaders *Really* Means
  • When our leaders speak, the thinking has been done
  • “Cannot Lead You Astray”- An Alternate View
  • “Never Lead Us Astray.” And Dissonance.

Truth

Truth

My Blog List

  • Wheat and Tares
    First Presidency Letter of Support for Donald Trump
    5 hours ago
  • Times & Seasons, An Onymous Mormon Blog
    Public service announcements: election edition
    10 hours ago
  • Mormon Heretic
    November is Month of Gratitude
    15 hours ago
  • By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog
    1992’s Best Albums
    1 day ago
  • Juvenile Instructor
    MHA Article Awards (Due February 1, 2025)
    4 days ago
  • john pavlovitz
    What The Hell Just Happened, America?
    6 days ago
  • Zelophehad's Daughters
    How does Trump embody Latter-day Saint values?
    3 weeks ago
  • Life Outside The Book of Mormon Belt
    Reactionary or Revelatory? Thoughts on the New Temple Garment
    3 weeks ago
  • Pure Mormonism
    Don't Call Me A Right-Winger
    1 month ago
  • Feminist Mormon Housewives | Feminist Mormon Housewives
    20 Years of FMH
    2 months ago
  • New Cool Thang
    I Miss
    3 months ago
  • The Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer
    WHAT IS YOUR WARD GIVING MEN FOR FATHER'S DAY?
    1 year ago
  • Keepapitchinin, the Mormon History blog
    “You can guess how he felt when I told him”
    1 year ago
  • Flunking Sainthood
    Stability is not in the cards for 2023: Divinations reveal a year of transitions
    1 year ago
  • Buddha in the Beehive | Seeking the honey of enlightenment . . . one heretical question at a time.
    On Seeking Heavenly Mother: A Parable of Prophets, Priests, and Pachyderms
    2 years ago
  • Faith-Promoting Rumor
    Remembering Chris Henrichsen
    2 years ago
  • The Mormon Therapist
    RECLAIM YOUR TRUE SELF
    4 years ago
  • KiwiMormon
    A Reign of Dangerous Lunacy
    4 years ago
  • No More Strangers: LGBT Mormon Forum
    #BreakingJesus
    5 years ago
  • Things of My Soul
    This Life Is Meant to Be a Kingdom, Not Just a Cross
    6 years ago
  • Dave's Mormon Inquiry
    Fiction and History
    6 years ago
  • Mormon Matters
    Announcing a June 2018 Mormon Matters Retreat
    7 years ago
  • project mayhem
    On Mormonism, authenticity, and spiritual epiphanies in Sin City
    7 years ago
  • Doves and Serpents
    Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
    7 years ago
  • Thoughts on Things and Stuff
    Defending the Expositor: On Penalty of Death…
    8 years ago
  • Mormon Scholars Testify
    Mark W. Cannon
    8 years ago
  • Mankind Was My Business
    Hiroshima: We Must Reflect And Repent
    9 years ago
  • Life On Gold Plates
    Debut album by Jiminy Finn and the Moneydiggers!
    12 years ago
  • The Pierian Spring

Faith

Faith

Mormon Thought/Podcasts

  • A Thoughtful Faith (Podcast)
  • By Common Consent
  • Church Newsroom
  • Dialogue Podcasts
  • Dialogue--Journal of Mormon Thought
  • LDS FAQ: Mormon Answers
  • Maxwell Institute Podcast
  • Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
  • Mormon Archipelago--Gateway to the Blogernacle
  • Mormon Channel
  • Mormon Discussion: Faith and Doubt (Podcast)
  • Mormon Matters Podcast
  • Mormon Stories Podcast
  • Mormon Stories Sunday School
  • Mormon/LDS Blogs
  • Patheos Mormon Portal
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • The Cultural Hall (podcast)
  • This Week In Mormons (podcast)

Memorable Talks, Articles, Speeches

  • “There Is Always a Struggle”: An Interview with Chieko N. Okazaki
  • You do not belong here – a high councilor’s talk about inclusion
  • When the Prophet Speaks, Is the Thinking Done?
  • To Do the Business of the Church: A Cooperative Paradigm for Examining Gendered Participation Within Church Organizational Structure
  • The Sin "Next to Murder"--An Alternative Interpretation
  • The Root of Christian Doctrine
  • The Challenges of Defining Mormon Doctrine
  • Sunstone: Paying the Price of Intellectualism
  • Pew Forum on Mormonism & Politics (Richard Bushman)
  • JFK's speech from the Mormon Tabernacle
  • Is Mormonism Christian?
  • Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism
  • Dialogue--Journal of Mormon Thought
  • Believing Christ: A Practical Approach to the Atonement
  • BYU Speeches
  • Are Mormons Christian?
  • An Echo from the Foothills: To Marshal the Forces of Reason
  • American Rhetoric
  • A Liahona Latter-day Saint--Richard Poll
  • 'We Have Sinned Against You'--Richard Mouw
  • "What The Church Means To People Like Me" (Richard Poll)
  • "The Baptist Version of the Book of Mormon" (by a Southern Baptist Minister)
  • "Letter to a Doubter" (Terryl Givens)
  • "His Grace Is Sufficient" (Brad Wilcox)
  • "Faith in America"-Romney
  • "An Eternal Quest--Freedom of the Mind" (Hugh B. Brown)

The Essence Of Our Faith

"The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it."

--Joseph Smith Jr. (History of the Church, 3:30).

Memorable General Conference Talks

  • "An High Priest of Good Things to Come"
  • "Lord, I Believe; Help Thou Mine Unbelief"-Faust
  • "None Were with Him"--Holland
  • Beware of Pride--Ezra Taft Benson
  • Concern for the One--Wirthlin
  • Content With the Things Alloted-Maxwell
  • Four Titles--Uchtdorf
  • Friendship: A Gospel Principle--Jensen
  • Lift Where You Stand--Uchtdorf
  • On Being Genuine--Uchtdorf
  • Our Only Chance--Sheri L. Dew
  • Sunday Will Come-Wirthlin
  • The Challenge to Become-Oaks
  • The Gift of Grace--Uchtdorf
  • The Only True God and Jesus Christ Whom He Hath Sent-Holland
  • The Purifying Power of Gethsemane--McConkie
  • The Tongue Can Be a Sharp Sword--Ashton

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