by Lisa M. | Dec 24, 2014 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, One Mormon's Opinion |
Christmas is coming, and the geese are getting fat. But life is still going, and for some people, it’s still really hard. For one family in our community, there will be one less place at the table—a place formerly filled by a beautiful 6-year-old girl who died...
by Lisa M. | Jun 15, 2014 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, How Beliefs Shape Mormon Culture |
Life is hard sometimes. Life with children is really hard sometimes. And trying to juggle careers and kids exponentially increases the level of difficulty. So many recent college graduates are saying they plan to opt out of parenthood altogether—58% of them, to be...
by Gale | Feb 15, 2014 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, The Heavens Are Open |
In February 2014 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often inadvertently called the “Mormon Church”) published the first in a series of five articles on the value of religion. The first installment, posted at LDS Newsroom, was called...
by Lisa M. | Jan 17, 2014 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, One Mormon's Opinion |
The battle between good and evil makes a great movie plot. And J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” series of movies puts this plot line to great use—with epic quests and great battles. But sometimes the greatest cinematic battles are the internal...
by Lisa M. | Dec 8, 2013 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, Scriptures |
A true hero is a person who inspires us, who makes us want to be better. Heroes are personal, and we each connect with our own heroes in our own ways. For me, a true hero is human. We see how the hero overcame human weakness and frailty—and we realize that we, too,...