Gospel Fare
Is It Lawful to Do Good? A Restored Approach to Grace
Is grace more than an exception? Theological insights challenge deep-rooted assumptions about justice and divine law.
Adam S. Miller
September 3, 2024
Is grace more than an exception? Theological insights challenge deep-rooted assumptions about justice and divine law.
Exploring the ‘sin’ of our time, this piece unveils the arrogance in assuming history is deterministically linear.
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.
The problem is not that masculinity is toxic. The problem is that we have abandoned the heroic and noble masculine virtues that the world so desperately needs today.
With great precision, a surgeon can miraculously repair a part of our body that is throbbing in pain. Could the same thing sometimes be needed for aching stories we carry around that simply aren’t true?
Part II in a rejoinder to “All Things New” by Terryl and Fiona Givens.
How can we foster kindness and softness in our own extended families and homes these holidays? Here are some thoughts.
Changing the composition of the courts is straight from the authoritarian handbook, and the justification comes from a misunderstanding of history.
Like the accusations against its history, some have insisted the doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ has racism “embedded” within it. Are those making this claim aware of what the Church actually teaches?
Even after the killer in Atlanta’s heinous shooting recently spoke of his sexual addiction as a contributing influence. Some have taken this as an opportunity to minimize and even ridicule the idea of such a problem. The millions of men and women grappling with the same deserve better.
Those who claim that Latter-day Saint history is uniquely racist pay insufficient attention to the larger context surrounding early Saints, as well as the meaningful examples of positive race relations in the life of Joseph Smith.
In response to a critique, we are seeing a tendency across the political spectrum to answer with insistence on the greater immorality of those raising the concern – “WHAT ABOUT that [awful thing]”? Here’s why that’s so destructive.