The Power of Home-Centered Gospel Learning
When most people think of worship, it’s something happening in a chapel or church building. A deeper appreciation of worship that can also happen at home has been transformative for many families
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Author: David Dollahite
David C. Dollahite, Ph.D. is professor of Family Life at BYU, co-director of the American Families of Faith project, and co-author of Strengths in Diverse Families of Faith.
It Doesn’t Take Life-Changing Drama to Find Humility
The world’s getting angrier and colder. We were struck by how diverse families cultivate humility through religious practices.
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The Healing Power of Humility in Parent-Child Relationships
Lots of families are hurting—with plenty of strained relationships between parents and children. Could a little more humility help us all?
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Will My Kids Keep the Faith? Parents’ Hopes and Children’s Choices
Despite strong hopes otherwise, many religious parents are seeing their children choosing a different path—a freedom that is as painful as it is Godly.
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Sacred Experiences with Jewish Friends
At a time of rising antisemitism, it can be especially helpful to reflect on ways in which a Latter-day Saint perspective invites robust solidarity and rich connection with Jewish friends.
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Attending Religious Services of Other Faiths
Faiths across the world observe sacred moments. Watching and participating with them not only helps us love one another more but can deepen our own faith.
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What is Holy Envy and Can it Heal Our World?
Our own religious lives can be enhanced by seeking out good wherever we find it—including through religious pluralism.
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Evangelical Christian Families: “God Wants Us … To Be Strong”
Those who adhere to America’s largest faith tradition, Evangelical Christianity, report that their faith gives them tools such as conflict resolution and forgiveness that help their families’ lives.
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Muslim Families: A Closer Look at Answering to Allah
The faith of Muslim Americans is often manifest not just in their beliefs but in their desire to live out their beliefs or “walk the walk.”
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Latter-day Saint Families: Eternal Perspectives
Latter-day Saints draw strength from doctrines of the eternal nature of family and from religious practices that unify our community. Many of these strengthening teachings and practices are shared by other communities, and this is something to celebrate.
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Mainline Protestant Families: Loving God and Family Members
For those in America’s dominant Protestant faiths, their understanding of God and their relationship with Him provides a model for how they believe they should interact with their spouses and children.
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Jewish Families: How Teachings and Traditions Strengthen Marriage and Family Life
Jewish faith and culture provide powerful insights to any family seeking to strengthen their own marriage and home life.
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Strong Black Families: God, Relationships, and Deep Faith
In contrast to the negative scrutiny of African American families in the past, and consistent with the current focus on hearing the voices of Black Americans, the words and experiences of Black Christian American families of faith are both refreshing and profoundly instructive.
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Catholic and Orthodox Christian Families: Confession and Forgiveness
The Catholic relational approach to identity and emphasis on forgiveness has the effect of strengthening relationships and replacing guilt with hope.
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Living a New Faith in a New Land
Asian-American Christians often rely on the Bible carefully and deeply to influence many elements of family life, especially parenting.
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Remembering Coach Joe Lordan
Our communities are built on individual men and women who take a moment to look outward and ask what can I do to make things better
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The Inner Logic of Religion(s)
Can a religion be adequately understood by referencing simply its psychological or sociological manifestations? Not according to religious people, it can’t.
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Strengths In Diverse American Families of Faith
Introducing and launching a new series of articles based on the American Families of Faith project involving scholars at BYU and beyond. The project aims to deepen understanding of diverse religious families across the United States.
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Mourning Together as Morning Dawns
Much sorrow is being felt in the wake of this pandemic, by so many. How can we better “mourn with those that mourn,” while also working through our own grief in healing ways?
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Rock and Religion: The Pursuit of Everlasting Love
Is it possible that humankind’s deepest yearnings for connection, unity, shared meaning, and love are the shared sacred quest of both religion and the best rock?
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