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Category: Gospel Fare

A quiet, uncertain path evokes the emotional experience of navigating faith and doubt
Gospel Fare

Navigating Your Faith Journey: Questioning is Good

Is it okay to question? Yes, it can be an important part of your faith journey.

Sam A. Hardy June 2, 2025
A mirrored name mismatch evokes the spiritual meaning of names as both internal struggle and divine invitation.
Gospel Fare

The Prophetic Pattern of New Names and the Promise They Reveal

Why does God rename people? To mark covenant, transformation, and purpose beyond their present identity.

Jared Lambert May 30, 2025
A teacher offers marigolds while hiding a Bible, symbolizing niceness vs kindness in gospel instruction.
Gospel Fare

An Inconvenient Truth and The Rise of Latter-day Niceness

When does discipleship lose conviction, courage, and clarity? When “niceness” is modeled for comfort and approval.

Priscilla Davis May 19, 2025
A woman gazes into a mirror that reflects darkness, portraying the emptiness behind the illusion of self-love.
Gospel Fare

The Illusion of Self-love: What Christ Taught Instead

Is self-love the key to healing? True wholeness comes through connection, not isolation or self-focus.

Joseph Chamberlain May 16, 2025
A courtroom scene where a dog’s presence satirizes doctrinal ambiguity and legalistic faith reasoning.
Gospel Fare

Air Bud Theology Meets Queer Theory: Loopholes in Latter-day Saint Doctrine

Can early Church practices justify new sealings? The evidence affirms doctrinal continuity, not revisionist change.

Stephen O. Smoot May 14, 2025
A courtroom scene where a dog’s presence satirizes doctrinal ambiguity and legalistic faith reasoning.
Gospel Fare

Air Bud Doctrine: How Ambiguity Becomes Strategy—and Undermines Faith

Is theological silence a loophole? Air Bud logic misreads doctrine and undermines revealed foundations.

Stephen O. Smoot May 12, 2025
A woman’s prayer is spoken through a megaphone, illustrating misinterpretation of women and the Church.
Gospel Fare

Listening to Women—or Listening Through the Narrative We Prefer?

What does it mean to listen to women in faith communities? It means discerning voice from ideological demand.

Amanda Freebairn May 5, 2025
An individual walks in opposite steps among other students, capturing the social tension of secular Christianity in elite spaces.
Gospel Fare

The Respectability Trap: Saints, Status, and the Cost of Acceptance

Can believers thrive in a world that disdains their faith? Their strength lies in embracing outsider status.

Ryan Strong April 30, 2025
A polished figure reflects distorted truths to an adoring audience, symbolizing the antichrist's last days.
Gospel Fare

How Conspiracy Thinking Is Prepping the World for the Antichrist

Can conspiracy thinking pave the way for the Antichrist? Yes—it distorts truth, fuels delusion, and prepares minds to worship lies as wonders.

Dan Ellsworth April 28, 2025
A rushing mother misses her child’s peaceful moment with nature, highlighting Christian mindfulness.
Gospel Fare

The Anesthesia of Busyness: When Doing More Means Feeling Less

Why does busyness feel fulfilling yet leave us empty? Constant motion and distraction dull the soul, making real spiritual growth nearly impossible.

Brianna Holmes April 23, 2025
A father multitasks during the LDS General Conference 2025, portraying joy and devotion in the ordinary, messy work of family life.
Gospel Fare

The Joy of Struggle: When Wholeness Isn’t Perfection

The Public Square Magazine team shares their April 2025 General Conference thoughts and insights.

Public Square Staff April 7, 2025
A warm community scene reflecting Mormons and violence with harmonious interactions.
Gospel Fare

A Peaceable People: Why Latter-day Saints Are Less Violent than the General Population

Latter-day Saints are a notably peaceful people. What keeps their communities nonviolent?

C.D. Cunningham March 31, 2025
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