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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...

But I have never heard a conversation on how women can handle sexual comments or harassment in ways that empower women and take the power away from the harasser. Sure, it might be more complicated than a stranger flashing. But I would still like a conversation about how women can respond in various...

Red Ryder wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:45 am

PS. Can we just keep this going as the "Mormorrisey HC Experience" mega thread?

Yes please!

Freefallin, your post really made my heart ache. I have struggled with a feeling of brokenness or unworthiness for as long as I can remember. I was drawn to the church and converted as a young adult because the initial message was of unconditional love and worth -- just because I was a child of God....

Tribune columnist Robert Kirby suspended after investigation into inappropriate behavior: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/09/15/ ... ist-robert

For any other language geeks out there, this is a short discussion of why/how "even" is used in the KJV of the Bible: https://www.waywordradio.org/discussion/topics/the-word-even-in-the-king-james-bible/ I agree that it gets used in Conference talks and leadership utterances to artificially add weig...

Robinson's Parable of the Bicycle and his book Believing Christ was an important part of giving me hope and keeping me going in the church long after the glow of my conversion had worn off. When my wonderful, loving and conscientious TBM son gets down on himself, I often quote Robinson to him, or re...

There is a balancing act in dressing for one’s self and understanding that what one wears does send a message – I think in our excitement to dislike so much about the church the truth of that is often lost. I do not know how one helps a youth understand that. Sometimes I notice there are plenty of ...

One of the weird dynamics (or I don't know, maybe not so unusual) is that DH gets really wound up about things like this, and then I feel like the sky is caving in, or the apocalypse is imminent or something. (I learned recently that this is called low distress tolerance.) Anyway, it's so helpful to...