(Original Post Date: March 13, 2017. Updated in October 2024)Faltering faith? The 1980s were challenging years for me. I began 1980 as a newlywed and 1990 as a mom to four kids. One of my challenges involved questions of faith. Born and raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I always had a rock-solid testimony of the gospel and of the Church. Still, like many American young women, I had questions regarding Church doctrine and Latter-day Saint culture. My older sister, Janet, ... VIEW POST
Part 1: Suffering a Crisis of Faith? Feed Your Faith, Starve Your Doubts
The Giving Tree and The Proud Tree
Nothing left to give? Every Sunday evening, I attended the Latter-day Saint Women's Support Group and listened as the women gradually exposed their vulnerability and anguish due to addiction within their families. (Even though mental illness has lost much of its societal stigma, addiction is often still shrouded in secrecy and shame---particularly within our American Latter-day Saint culture.) The sisters' individual stories were sad and distressing: My son hates me.I have nothing ... VIEW POST
Your Mission…Should You Decide to Accept It…
Does your mission seem impossible? You spend too much time reading all those textbooks. Why don't you read Harry Potter? advised my mom.You don't read much fiction do you? observed my sister.Those topics would interest YOU," my friend said to me with a hint of condescension. (We had just seated ourselves for a Relief Society meeting when I noticed three words written on the chalkboard: "sexism, racism, and doctrine," and had pointed them out to my friend.) My mom, my sister, and my friend all ... VIEW POST
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