Image from http://www.mormonthink.com/essays-first-vision.htm This year is the 200th year anniversary of Joseph Smith's First Vision. By the title of this post, it is clear where my opinion resides regarding this story. The story goes at the age of 14, in 1820, Joseph Smith was struggling to know which church was true. He went to a …
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Image by Mark Filter from Pixabay I have seen tremendous outpourings of love and compassion in predominantly post-Mormon groups supporting those going through a faith transition. True "mourning with those that mourn." In these same groups, I have also seen powerful expressions of love and understanding for those choosing to stay in or return to …
An LDS Faith Transition Has Three Stages: An LDS Faith Transition has three stages, comparable to faith transitions from other faiths of the World: 1. Initial World-View Construction. 2. Subsequent World-View Deconstruction followed by 3. World-View Reconstruction. My Top 10 LDS Faith Transition Resources for each stage are listed below. Reconstruction stage resources listed may …
My Journey With the Book of Mormon. Part 2, World-view Deconstruction And I, Enos knew that God could not lie... Enos 1:6, Book of Mormon This Book of Mormon verse has had a profound impact on my life. In the dualistic black and white way of thinking I was brought up with as a Mormon, …
Jason N. Harris, DOB: XXXX, Record Number: XXXXX Address: XXXXX Date: XXXXX Member Records 50 E North Temple, Room 1372 Salt Lake City, UT 84150-5310 This notarized letter is my formal resignation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is effective immediately. I hereby immediately withdraw my consent to being treated as …
I have been wondering when to share this and suppose now is as good a time as any now that my family and several close friends know. For the sake of my own integrity and so you all know fully where I am coming from, I wanted to share with you that I have left …
The LDS "Gospel Topics Essays." are official LDS responses approved by the First Presidency and LDS Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to many difficult and controversial historical, doctrinal and textual issues. Examples include troublesome issues regarding the LDS Book of Abraham, Native American DNA and the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith’s treasure seeking activities, and …
April 3, 2018 Dear Brothers in Christ of the XXXX Stake Presidency and XXXX Bishopric, As you know, I have not been attending church. Given you are all in leadership positions, I feel it only fair to let you know somewhat specifically why. First of all, I do not believe “the witness of the Spirit” as taught by …
You told me you were God. To trust you. After all, you have God’s name. You have the keys of my salvation. Listen to you. You will never lead me astray. In loving company of friends and loved ones I covenanted with you. Though only at that moment did I realize what would be required, I promised to give you everything, I guess as any good spouse would. For years you assured me …
I just woke up from a very interesting dream. We are at the lake house in Deep Creek for a family reunion. Dreamed [our Bishop] told us "Jesus" was going to be moving into our ward. We asked for clarification and he said, no seriously, "Jesus." Sure enough, the next week he moved in. He …
The Second Half of Life. We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.C. G. Jung When I was younger, I had life all …
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