The Respect for Marriage Act and Caesar’s Coin
It’s been easy for people to misinterpret the Church’s support of the Respect for Marriage Act. Greater awareness about the difficult cultural atmosphere believers find themselves in might help.
Category: Family Matters
Catching a Vision of the Doctrine of the Family
Are Latter-day Saints too focused on teachings about the family? Or are prophets emphasizing exactly what God knows will lead to our greatest happiness?
Losing and Finding Myself in Motherhood
As a young mother, I was a conflicted woman—torn apart by two dreams: “Where did the old me go?” This is how my struggle with children miraculously changed into joy and love unimagined.
Moderate, But Not Lukewarm
There is wisdom in holding space for competing important priorities, while seeking contextual cues in difficult matters to discern the right course. Let’s not confuse that with being “lukewarm.”
Encanto, The Anti–Superhero Movie
Forget the god with a hammer. Remember the God on the Cross.
Yearning for Greater Fulfillment? Relish Your Most Precious Promises
Here’s why the choice to stay in a marriage—rather than chase off after something else— might be so much more fulfilling.
Don’t Call it Abortion
Especially when reality is deeply uncomfortable, a word like this has a way of sanitizing and obscuring the full and brutal picture of what’s actually taking place.
“I’m Not Going Anywhere.” A Tribute to Godly Men
My past taught me that men were dangerous, not to be trusted, and likely to hurt and abandon me. I learned otherwise from my husband and my new faith.
Forgiving Grandpa
I had good reasons for being angry with my grandfather. But that emotional burden I carried reflected my own misunderstanding of the nature of my other, even grander Father.
When Motherhood Devours
Our approach to motherhood may be devouring our joy along with our children’s potential. The tragedy is that so many women don’t realize there is another way.
Yes, the Church of Jesus Christ is Pro-Life
To suggest that nuance in the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ means it has taken a “pro-choice” view on abortion is to fundamentally misconstrue what Latter-day Saint leaders actually teach.
The Perilous Power of Hidden Assumptions in the Abortion Debate
Selectively choosing to end the life of a fetus out of concern for that baby’s future presumes the very notion that many abortion advocates often deny: that is, that this fetus is, in fact, a person—and someone whose quality of life (and existence itself) matters as much as it does for any of us.
