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. . . People will have to truly make it a secular event and then take it to the temple. And you know what? That would be the ideal, both from the church's perspective and from the couple's. There are so many sad stories of bishops who performed the civil ceremony but took the occasion to shame the ...

It's been just over a month since I stood outside and greeted my son and his new bride as they exited the temple, from a wedding that I was excluded from. I am, of course, SO GLAD that this will no longer have to be the experience of non-member or inactive family members going forward. But I don't h...

So wonderful to hear this!

StarbucksMom wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 06, 2019 10:41 am

I don’t know how to scroll back to the beginning for quotes, so what’s a FSOY??? (as scripture now?)

For the Strength of Youth

There's a lot of astute speculation about what prompted this . . . I'd REALLY like to know the actual reasoning and discussions that led to yesterday's announcement. I wonder if we ever will.

I've been reading these. They're awful. The ones I find the most chilling are the ones where a student is asked to prove their complete remorse for their sins by providing the names of other students who have transgressed the Honor Code. It smacks of McCarthyism to me and I can't for the life of me ...

Hugs. Sometimes it all just gets to be too much to carry inside. I'm glad we can be here for you to vent to.

I'm returning and reporting. TL;DR -- it was a lovely day. I didn't go to the temple to wait outside. I spent the time with some other family members who also couldn't be in the temple and we reminisced about other weddings we've been to, and basically agreed that we liked non-mormon weddings better...

My eldest son is getting married in the temple in a couple of weeks, and although I resigned myself to that probability when he left on his mission, I've found myself angrier and more triggered by church stuff than I have been for a long time. I have this foreboding that one of the changes they will...

Thank you all. It has been a difficult time, and coming here to read your comments has brought me a surprising amount of comfort. Namaste.

If any of you remember this and are so inclined . . . it always means so much to me when I know that you're remembering with me, even though you didn't know him IRL. It feels sort of like you all went through it with me and today's the anniversary.

Ugh -- I have no advice, just feeling anguished and enraged on your behalf. Unbelievable -- and incomprehensible. I'm so sorry.

The bottom line is I don't really want any religion anymore. I'm just done with that in my life. You and me both. There is nothing they can change at this point that would convince me to resume being an active member of their church. Once it sparked joy and I drew from my participation a sense of j...

My eldest son went out on his mission about a year after his younger brother died. It was a hard, dark time for him and for us -- to me, missing two sons and having lost any belief that there was any purpose or meaning in the absence of either, it was beyond hideous. I'm really, really, really glad ...

I just finished rereading Chaim Potok’s The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev . Before that I read Jonathan Haidt’s Coddling of the American Mind and Johann Hari’s Lost Connections . I have a stack of books and I’m not sure where to go next. A biography of Bing Crosby during the war years, I’m planni...

I tried to engage her with the Harry Potter series- but she likes the strong female lead. We recently read A wrinkle in Time and then saw the movie. Any suggestions for other series? When I am not reading children's books, I prefer non-fiction, one of my favorites is Team of Rivals about Lincoln. W...

Red Ryder wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 03, 2019 11:51 pm

Is the women’s veil even necessary to wear now?

What’s the point of wearing it if it’s not going to be used to veil the face?

Are they still going to cover her face with it before they close her coffin?

MoPag wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 01, 2018 10:50 am

I really want to get a memorial tattoo for angel DS too.

(((hugs)))

However, personally speaking I think tattoos are equivalent to wall paper. Over time they become dated reflecting time and current fads. Examples of this are "barbed wire around the bicep", low back "tramp stamp", "tribal designs", "Chinese symbols", cartoon characters, etc. This is how I think of ...

Well done video collage of both Gordon and Russ' talks: https://youtu.be/2lKQrYUE3yc The editing on this is brilliant and provides better commentary than anything else I've seen. On a side note: I really miss Hinckley and his wry self-deprecatory humor. Nelson suffers badly from the side-by-side co...