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  • 67 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “God”

    Posted on July 7, 2013 | No Comments
    "God / was here this morning while I was out . . . "

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  • Letter to a Missionary: On Questions and Faith

    Posted on February 21, 2013 | 9 Comments
    It's possible that just as Christ was, as Christian theologians say, "Fully Human and Fully Divine," so are our interactions with God.

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  • Encounters: We Are All Beggars

    Posted on December 10, 2012 | 3 Comments
    When we see physical need in others, it is merely an external manifestation of an inner need we all carry.

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  • Confronting the “Fine Tuning” Argument

    Posted on September 6, 2012 | 12 Comments
    Given a pragmatic view of science, fine tuning ceases to be a problem. Scientific models are remarkable, but human, efforts at reverse-engineering the universe. We can't expect them to be indicative of objective reality.

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  • Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: Coming Out

    Posted on August 26, 2012 | 7 Comments
    The premonition was followed by two additional thoughts. I needed to come out of the closet. I needed to resign formally from the church.

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  • Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: I Don’t Know How It Ends

    Posted on August 19, 2012 | 6 Comments
    Doesn't matter what you call it. What matters is that it calls you. It's been calling poets and preachers, artists and alcoholics all along. People who see things that aren't supposed to be there.

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  • The Sacredness of Manhood

    Posted on February 29, 2012 | 30 Comments
    Today’s guest post comes to us from Angela Felsted, who is a musician, poet, and nature lover. Her work has appeared in issue fifteen of Drown in Your Own Fears, in Chantarelle’s Notebook, and in Vine Leaves Literary Journal. You can find more of her […]

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  • Slipping through God’s Fingers

    Posted on September 7, 2011 | 20 Comments
    In August, I underwent a 40-hour training to become a guardian ad litem or a “CASA” (court-appointed special advocate) for children in the foster care system. I was surprised to learn how many kids in our little town have been removed from their parents’ homes […]

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  • Great Expectations

    Posted on July 17, 2011 | 3 Comments
    In 2006, Elder Nelson spoke of his first wife saying, “When people have asked her how she managed with ten children with so little time available from her husband, she has responded with a twinkle in her eye, saying, “When I married him, I didn’t […]

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    03 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: From Kolob Wikileaks

    Posted on July 16, 2011 | 10 Comments
    "The iron rod should only go halfway through the mist-just HALFWAY, not all the way. It's clear from the picture."

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  • Clapping for God

    Posted on February 27, 2011 | 8 Comments
    ; ; ; ; ; ; ; What a treat! Mel spilled over to Sunday this week to bless us with a guest post. Enjoy… I was once asked to teach the Gospel Doctrine class, and I seriously wondered if maybe I would be teaching […]

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  • Georgia Lee

    Posted on February 19, 2011 | 3 Comments
    Perhaps my favourite Tom Waits album is Mule Variations (1999). This simple song really stuck with me: for the honesty of its question. We all live different lives, and have different struggles: and, I think, sometimes all feel a longing for the kind of God […]

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