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Walking into the darkness … finding little bowls of candy waiting
Your Life is So Easy
Previously published in the discussion forum at Real Intent. Some years ago I was Young Women President shepherding a group of very individualistic souls. One was a gregarious young woman, whose parents were divorced and mother was earning barely above minimum wage, whose life was filled with economic distress but whose character responded by stepping […]
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Follow the Money
May 15, 2013
I witnessed an exchange today that was unsettling. It was between a supervisor and one of his employees, who just happens to be his son. In front of me, this supervisor/owner used aggressive posture and shaming tone and belittling rhetoric to attempt to control behavior. I’ve lived long enough to recognize that there is usually […]
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Choose Higher Ground
April 20, 2013
My missionary son wrote his first p-day letter Monday. It was heart-rending. I thought of The God Who Weeps as I pondered on the soul-stretching he is going through, and the profoundly humble way he is embracing it. And I wept too. It caught me at my own moment, on the second day of a […]
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Brad Wilcox, Continuous
April 13, 2013
In a delightful pair of books, popular LDS author and speaker Brad Wilcox (His Grace is Sufficient) outlines a generous perspective on our discipleship. Many of us have wryly noted that the bulk of the gospel is wound into that deceptively simple statement of the fifth step of eternal progression: endure to the end. While we […]
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Hold Your Peace
April 13, 2013
This is the seventh of a 7-part series, A Compound in One, originally published at Real Intent. In March of 1839, after months of incarceration in his prison temple at Liberty, Joseph wrote the following: For there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait […]
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Homosexuality, Feminism, and the Intelligentsia
April 13, 2013
This is the sixth in a 7-part series, A Compound in One, originally published at Real Intent. Twenty years ago this year Elder Boyd K. Packer taught precious doctrines of submission in a beautiful talk to the All-Church Coordinating Council (the whole talk is worth a read). These gentle teachings would make him a target for three increasingly […]
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