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,...
by Lisa M. | Dec 3, 2013 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, One Mormon's Opinion |
The U.S. Senate recently voted 64-32 to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which, if passed into legislation, would make it illegal for an employer to fire an employee based on sexual identity. While the issue of same-sex marriage has been divisive among...
by Lisa M. | Dec 2, 2013 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, Mormons and Religious Liberty |
The musical “Oklahoma” has a great song called “The Farmer and the Cowman Should be Friends.” It goes something like, “Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends. One man likes to pull a plow, the other likes to chase a cow. But there’s no reason why they can’t...
by Keith L. Brown | Nov 26, 2013 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, Mormonism |
A religious movement is a movement intended to bring about religious reforms. The Protestant Reformation, for example, was a religious movement of the 16th century for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the establishment of the Reformed...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Nov 25, 2013 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, Mormon Beliefs |
When I became a Mormon as a teenager, someone suggested I had simply looked around for the church with the most rules and joined it. That wasn’t true, but it was true that having rules made me comfortable, as my friends knew. I’d already, at age seventeen, seen the...
by Lisa M. | Nov 18, 2013 | AAAA Mormon Beliefs Website, One Mormon's Opinion |
Orson Scott Card found himself in the middle of a firestorm in the months leading up to the Nov. 1 premiere of the movie based on his award-winning sci-fi novel “Ender’s Game.” Same-sex marriage advocates promoted a boycott of the film—even though neither the film nor...