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Does the Book of Jeraneck count? Only nine tribes to go!

http://www.latterdaymormon.co.uk/book-of-jeraneck

I'll add that I might feel differently when it's my child's wedding. I could see that hurting, but I'm hoping it will never come up.

I hate weddings, I hate funerals, I hate graduations. Basically, any event that is a long, drawn out affair that is really only important to one or two people I view as a huge, boring waste of time. Not that I'm not happy for the person/event in question; I just don't want to be there or participate...

My adult children have been able to navigate their own religious (or irreligious) beliefs and spiritual course well enough. Both harmful and helpful influences growing up can be undone, irrespective of our wishes. This is a great point. I often have to remind myself that my son has agency. It's eas...

This campaign was doomed from the start. The corporate church likes to set expectations really high, on everything, from the mundane to the profound. It doesn't differentiate or prioritize, just says that it's all important and we need to do everything right, all the time. This never happens. How ma...

So I'm a dude, and I'm also a feminist. One of my biggest problems with the church is the patriarchal sexism baked in from the doctrine to the temple to the culture. I come from a family of strong TBM women. My grandma had the more action-oriented personality of my grandparents, my mom spearheaded b...

More than once, we've taken our tree down on or around Valentine's Day. Not out of commitment to the tree or anything, just laziness.

My grandma loves genealogy. I'm fascinated by the concept as well, and six or seven years ago I signed up for a FamilySearch account. Despite being connected to my Grandma through church records, and her lifetime of work on family history, my FamilySearch account was completely empty. There's no way...

I've heard that Elder Oaks is a registered Democrat. I don't know if that's true, but if he represents the left wing of the church, there's a reason I never felt comfortable there. #pinko

My son's birth was the catalyst for my shelf breaking. Concerns about indoctrination, and especially the additional harm a future daughter might face, has me extremely uneasy about having any more kids while the church is still in our lives. My wife is an extremely liberal TBM who has expressed a wi...

deacon blues wrote:Why doesn't God visit us? God does. I experience Truth and Love all the time.

Beautiful.

It's so depressing that your well-considered, thoughtful, loving reply was met with passive-aggressiveness, projection, and basically shutting down what could be a very nice continued conversation about Christlike love and service. Then again, Mormons are programmed hard to avoid any criticism of ch...

I've also thought about going to a counselor. But I've heard that non-Mormon counselors end up taking most of one's time getting filled in on Mormon culture and history. I'm not sure I really want to pay for that. Going to an active Mormon counselor is obviously not going to happen. If only there we...

This is one of the weirdest things I have ever read.

I found this post extremely inspiring, and took the opportunity to steal/adopt some of your ideas last night, Korihor. We had the elders over. I have not been to church in three or four months, and I wanted to avoid that conversation if possible, since I'm still determining how open I want to be abo...

Greetings! I was BIC and remember enjoying church when I was young. Singing primary songs with gusto is the main thing that sticks out to me from that time period. When I got baptized, I remember wanting to do it again. I was disappointed when the wrapped present turned out to be a set of scriptures...