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Oh, Mother!
So, I am being “inspired” to write this partially (a big part, I must confess) by an article/podcast discussion about the issue at MormonMatters.org. Not plagiarizing, but just tossing out some thoughts to consider. I encourage you to get familiar with the article and podcast.
The podcast shoots down some stuff that many of us LDS folks have heard in recent decades. An example: “We don’t talk about Heavenly Mother Read more…
About Orthodoxies
I wanted to digress more into this when writing the science/religion post, so I decided to do a post on it, a short one.
Because it doesn’t really require that much room to say, that I don’t see that Orthodoxy is such a big deal for Mormons at all. For some, but certainly when I think of the baptismal interview (which you an read about in the Preach My Gospel available at the Church Web site if you’re interested), or the temple recommend interview, the requirement for Orthodoxy is quite low in the LDS tradition. Read more…
About Trying To Serve God And Mammon Or the Gospel of Wealth
Well, it’s Scripture quiz time. Question: According to Jesus, as recorded in Scriptures, is it possible to serve both God and Mammon? Answer Yes or No.
Answer: According to Matt 6:24 and Luke 16:13, “Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
Yet, look around you. You’ll find people strongly equating wealth/health/success with righteousness, insinuating that such things automatically follow from righteous lives. But if we read the Sermon on the Mount (part of which is recorded in Matt 6, where the above quote can also be found), it is quite obvious that it is not just that we cannot serve God and mammon, we get several instructions Read more…
Just What Is Moral Courage Part 2
I don’t know how the first one could have been so poorly edited. My editor must have been napping! 
But what has happened, as it often does, is that this subject of moral courage has been much on my mind, and I’ve had several opportunities to see and practise it in practice (according to dictionary, the verb takes the “s” and the noun the “c” [NERD POINTS!]). And as it often does, it seems my views have widened to look at it more from the basic human needs point-of-view. The need for nourishment and shelter are closely followed by the need of dignity, for example. Read more…
Speaking Up!
So here we are. After the most physically active summer in my life in a quarter century, I am on my sickbed with a pneumonia — and have lost my voice, too! And exercise is supposed to be good for you!!
So yes, I guess that finally I was forced to “speak up” metaphorically again. Read more…
Perfection Is A Long Time Coming
Well, I have been on the sickbed for a while, as anyone, who has followed my ramblings has noticed. Includes some interesting experiences…
Anyhow, here are some thoughts, lightly edited, that I originally wrote in October 2008, but it’s never been published. Here we go: Read more…
Freedom ! (?)
That title is shorthand to asking what the freedom is that we want. Freedom from something or freedom for something?
Often we think that it is ideal to be totally independent of other people. Is that really so? Read more…
Just What Is Moral Courage?
These seem to be lose thoughts, but let’s see if we
It is not long ago since I read Elder Christoffersson’s address Moral Discipline from October 2009 General Conference. Now I came back to similar thoughts after reading Pres. Eyring’s message about Moral Courage in the March 2010 Ensign.
The question that begs asking from my point is what moral courage actually is Read more…
The Church Condemned
In my daily study I happened to run into D&C 84:54-55 (emphasis added):
And your minds in times past have been darkened because of unbelief Read more…
The Co-Eternal Man Part 4 — Eternal Progression
Paul says that those who are reborn through repentance and becoming a disciple of Christ, having been renewed by him, are “joint heirs” with Christ. (Read Romans 8:16-17 — note that here our relationship with the Father is established again as children).
That brings us to the full meaning of what it is to “be perfect as [our] Father in Heaven is perfect” Read more…
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