Tagged with "Opinions & Features"
Is the Sabbath still relevant?
MR says: Always an interesting topic for discussion, that seems to change with families as they grow. How do you approach the Sabbath? Once upon a time, in a little land called America, the Sabbath was a day of rest. Shops closed. Church bells rang. Girls in white stockings and patent-leather shoes and boys...
LDS woman told she would never walk, talk defies the odds with faith (+video)
MR says: Such an incredible young woman! She says she believes she was given this challenge to help bless the lives of others. Incredible to see what she's done through faith. Cassi Baird wasn't supposed to walk. She wasn't supposed to talk. She wasn't even supposed to be able to turn her head. But...
Don’t Stand So Close to Me: On Not Hearing Elizabeth Smart
MR says: A really interesting analysis of Elizabeth Smart's recent address and the way that media reacted to it (namely, how it pointed to her Mormon upbringing). Elizabeth Smart made headlines this month when she advocated for human trafficking survivors at a conference hosted by Johns Hopkins...
The mainstreaming of Mormonism
MR says: "Seeing the word 'Mormon' sprinkled all over the media today like popcorn salt means members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints need to have a good sense of who they are and must learn to factor in all types of assumptions and opinions." I remember, as a missionary in Bolivia,...
Was anti-Mormon sentiment on 'Survivor' responsible for Dawn's demise?
MR says: Interesting article that talks more about what the author calls a "double standard" for religious players in general (and not just Mormon players). If you’re like me, you love the first episode of every Survivor season, when people from completely different backgrounds are stuck on an island and...
Missionary history: The first missions to England were daring and inspired
MR says: Did you know in 1851 there were more Mormons in the British Isles than in Utah? During a Sunday meeting on June 4, 1837, in the year-old Kirtland Temple, Joseph Smith approached Heber C. Kimball, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “Brother Heber,” Joseph spoke quietly into his ear,...
Mormon Works vs. Evangelical Grace? Not So Fast
MR says: A recent piece ran in Christianity Today about using Mormonism as a model for engaging youth. This is a great response by LDS writer Jana Reiss, clarifying (yet again) that Mormons believe in grace before works. This month, the evangelical magazine Christianity Today asked three experts on youth...
Refugee's journey inspires former LDS Church Service missionary to finish college
MR says: A really cool story about how two women inspired one another. Here's another woman's story, with tips on how moms can make it work: "A Degree of Sanity." Saran Nahas, a refugee from Sierra Leone, had recently...
Charles Ramsey is the man
MR says: A pretty powerful opinion piece about the importance of helping others--of stepping out of "comfortable inaction." I can remember a trip to the grocery I made with my mom and siblings when I was a little kid. My family had just finished shopping at Vons when we walked out to the parking lot to load...
Vai's View: A tribute to Mom
MR says: One more piece on mothers, from NFL veteran and Mormon Vai Sikahema, from remarks shared at his mother's funeral last month. From my earliest memory, the gospel and the church was always important and a high priority to my mother. Mom had a family friend named Talafaiva sew a little tupenu —...
Inspired question, 'Book of Mormon' musical leads to former California mayor's conversion
MR says: Another story about how the 'Book of Mormon' musical was a step in learning more about the Church. It's cool to see these cropping up. For 35 years, Richard Marcus couldn’t remember going to bed without a drink. Night after night, the California native and former mayor of Culver City, Calif.,...
'Power' in the home: No one can take me down; I'm the queen
MR says: Cool perspective: mothers are to their house like queens are to a chess board. Even the most novice chess player recognizes the most powerful piece in the game — not the king, nor the bishops, the leaping knights or the eager pawns — but the elegant, versatile queen. She moves powerfully across...
Opinion: Anti-Mormonism as the American Religion?
MR says: Interesting. The author is not saying that anti-Mormonism is common or even acceptable, merely that the form its taken in America is directly correlated to the development of America's religious history. It has become a common refrain to refer to Mormonism as the “American religion.” Leo Tolstoy...
Having a child with spina bifida: 'Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer'
MR says: Beautiful article about a mother's experience with the birth, and early life, of her daughter with spina bifida. I am in the waiting room again. It was nearly one year ago in this same building that I saw her for the first time. She was lying inside the transparent box that kept her warm and...
Rachel Hixon: Is a mom's sacrifice worth it?
MR says: One more about moms that captures one of the unique ways they sacrifice: by sometimes being the more scrutinized, less favorite parent. What do you think? I was told from birth about the sacrifices a mother makes to be a mom … blah blah blah … back to me me me me me. Then I remember when I...
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