I used to follow the board all the time and was a fairly active poster nearly 20 years ago. I haven't logged in for at least 10 years. In January, after 34 years of marriage (married in the temple, but "lost" all blessings when I resigned about 13 years ago) I divorced. I can say now that I questioned my marriage from three weeks in, but thought I was doing the right thing by ma
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Actually, yes I do. Still sitting in church week after week, still hating it, still hating the woman I was forced to become, still wanting something better for my kids, still marginalized, yet not knowing that any other life could exist. Thank you for giving me hope and a new life.
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posting on facebook, trying to find mom. Link: https://www.facebook.com/brendan.dennis.3
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Out of all the responses, yours asks a thoughtful question, without judging the content of the post or the intelligence of the poster, or bolstering your own sense of importance. For the twelve years I've been on this site--reading every day but rarely posting--you have been a consistent example of class. Thank you.
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The information came from the Democratic Headquarters in the city where I live, NOT from LDS sources. The growth is in Eastern ND, not the oil patch. The take at the Democratic headquarters is that Mormons tend to move to low income areas. The city where I live would qualify as low income. The ward my husband attends has doubled in size the last year and a half, so I don't know that the
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in North Dakota this past year. They are following me. :(
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My answer ended up embedded in the thread instead of at the bottom--my bad--so I'm reposting it here: That is a difficult question. Here is the approximate timeline: 1-11 years I believed TSCC was true, but inside, something kept gnawing at me, a voice that said, "What if it isn't?" During this time I took out my endowments as a "dreaded single adult" (RIP, Deenie!) and
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That is a difficult question. Here is the approximate timeline: 1-11 years I believed TSCC was true, but inside, something kept gnawing at me, a voice that said, "What if it isn't?" During this time I took out my endowments as a "dreaded single adult" (RIP, Deenie!) and I eventually married in the temple, age 30. Next 5 years or so I believed the church was true--it wa
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My parents tried to reason with me. Educate me. They gave me ultimatums. Nothing worked . . . until, some years later, they decided to simply accept me and love me. And only then did I begin, gradually, to see what they had been trying to tell me all along. LOVE. It truly is powerful. The best to you and your daughter. The journey is hard. Love can make it a little less painful.
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ELCA Lutherans. Methodists. Congregationalists. United Church. Unitarians. Episcopalians. I'm sure there are others. So no, I don't think TSCC would have a leg to stand on if it advertised itself as the only church tolerant of gays. Even now, it is trying to "normalize" and appear mainstream, even as mainstream Christianity is seeking new directions to meet the needs o
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http://ideas.time.com/2012/06/13/the-root-of-mitt-romneys-comfort-with-lying/ We need to send him a link to this: http://www.mormonthink.com/lying.htm and show him this: "In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.” - Gordon B. Hinckley
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believes in social justice, and that love wins.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149483/Etan-Patz-case-Pedro-Hernandez-just-18-stabbed-6-year-old-death-1979.html
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Conversation this morning: DD: Dad really wants me to go to girls camp with his church. I don't want to, so I'm going to tell him no. Me: If you don't want to go, it's okay to say no. DD: I really don't want to go. I think it would be boring. So I'm going to say no. Me: Sounds like you're firm about that. DD: I am. Me: (smiling heart)
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The reason I ask is our city just hired a new police chief from Henderson, and I am wondering if he is Mormon. http://www.times-online.com/content/valley-city-picks-nevada-man-new-police-chief We've had a spate of new hirings in this small midwest city, and many have been Mormon. Is there some sort of push from SLC to settle the midwest?
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DH, who any more is at best a room mate,is headed to church. No mention of Mother's Day. DD pointed out flowers on the table yesterday when I came home from work and when I said thank you to everyone for the flowers DH said gruffly, "It wasn't me! It was the kids!" So . . . while DH spends from 9-4 in or headed to/from church, I am going to pack up the kids go miniature golfing a
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For the Laemm......s. Marv, I think you dated the daughter at one time, yes?
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I am alone again on Sunday, as usual. Stake conference is 2 hrs away. DH will, of course, attend. I will: take kids to swim banquet (alone), take kids to concert (alone), take kids to piano lessons (alone), clean the house (with kids), make dinner (with kids), do laundry (with kids). My only consolation is that DH will also be alone. Except that he would rather be. OUr marr
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He hasn't posted in 19 days. Has a rough family life. Anyone?
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especially with all the media hype over Mormon presidential candidates. Keep the temple sacred, run the risk of public ridicule. Open it up to everyone for sealings, run the risk of losing tithing from those who pay ONLY to attend a wedding of a loved one. Hmmmmm. This should be a show worth watching.
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I was married in the LA temple in 1989, and when the then-temple president/officiator told me during what part of the ceremony my husband and I could exchange rings--though rings aren't, he explained, an official part of the temple ceremony, I explained to him that my husband and I would be exchanging rings outside of the temple so that my nonmember parents would feel included. I said there woul
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who has at times thought of writing a book: "Guilt-free Worship in the Methodist Church: Reflections of a Former Mormon."
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had no idea until I went to Walmart and saw the LDS book section that this was another mo-ville.
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Beth, I just made a recommendation to admin that resources for minors be included as a permanent post at the top of the board. Don't know if this fits within the board policies, but we have had so many minors posting lately, and your resource list seems like it would be very helpful.
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It was fast Sunday. There was no mention of Jesus, except in the sacrament prayer. There was no mention of Easter, except to announce two special "Easter" musical numbers that had been written by a ward member/ music major. They were both in a minor key. I walked out during the second dirge. That was the end. No, Mormons do not celebrate Easter, because there is no such thing
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Brigham.
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