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About faith crises
Last weekend I was asked whether I had ever had a crisis of faith. This wasn’t the first time, but I had to ask for some room to define, to interpret the question. I will write about my chain of thought about that.
About faith: I want to remind that faith is not about absolute knowledge Read more…
Gay marriage, another personal take
As someone else already pointed out, marriage ceremony was always between one man and one woman in Judeo-Christian culture, although one man could end up with more than one living wife in several cultures in history (including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) up to the turn of the 20th century).
The lurid ideas that some people seem to have Read more…
Crisis, Choice and Commitment
So a theme I’ve been reading about lately is the crisis of faith phenomena in Mormon circles. It seems that there are endless numbers of people who 1) have been brought up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) by parents, who have taught the gospel at home and have strongly supported their childrens’ activity; 2) have also “found out” something they think is compromising Read more…
Hierarchy
What is “hierarchy”? Let me answer in the words of etymology dictionary:
c.1343, from O.Fr. ierarchie, from M.L. hierarchia ”ranked division of angels” (in the system of Dionysius the Areopagite), from Gk. hierarchia ”rule of a high priest,” from hierarches ”high priest, leader of sacred rites,” from ta hiera ”the sacred rites” (neut. pl. of hieros ”sacred”) + archein ”to lead, rule.” Sense of “ranked organization of persons or things” first recorded 1619, initially of clergy, probably infl. by higher 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 ‘All the war stories in the Book of Mormon’
I have lately been thinking about how often I hear even people, who basically believe that the BofM is from God, say that they are having a difficult time understanding how all the warfare in the book could be useful in a spiritual sense. It’s sometimes funny how something I’ve sometimes said myself, too, I suddenly realize I’ve at some point understood at least something of it, when I hear it from someone else.
The story of the man we usually call “Captain Moroni” gave me the beginning of the understanding. One day I was thinking of Moroni, and I was thinking how Moroni is such a good example to us, despite being a warrio Read more…
The Devil Made Me Do It Again!
As you’ll probably know, I’m an armchair philosopher. To put it a bit clearer, I read, study and ponder all kinds of things (my favorite scripture is D&C 88:78-80 which tells us what belongs to the doctrine of the Kingdom). And I like to speculate where I don’t have real knowledge; also, I am able to adjust my conclusions based on new information.
All of us, who haven’t been bred with full certainty about this world and its implications for us, have wondered at times why a good, omnipotent God allows so much evil in the World. It seems that quite often those who pay the highest price 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…
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…
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…
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