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My current bishop told my son that the word of wisdom is to serve as a marker of identification for LDS members and as a separation from the world. Similar to the circumcision for the Israelites. It was not a sin for a gentile to not be circumcised and it is no sin for nonmembers to partake in these...

Wonderful to hear from you, friend. There are LOTS of unanswered questions about the pre-mortal and post mortal realm and I think we don't know as much as we think we know. ;) However, my understanding of LDS doctrine (what we think we know) is that those that inhabit paradise are those that are rig...

I had an experience that might be described as revelation that told me that I was loved and accepted in the same way that my stillborn daughter is loved and accepted. (It might be worth noting that the majority of people that report such experiences describe feeling loved) We have a teaching that ch...

"It could happen to anybody" is still fear-mongering in my book though:) Right. I think that active people need to frame it in such a way that Satan is behind people falling away. I take it as a small victory that, in these particular examples, the individuals that experienced a faith tra...

Bishop started F&T meeting by saying emotionally that his former bishop and two good friends from his previous ward have left the church (I thought at first that someone had died by how emotional he was getting). He framed it as how we all need to be careful because if it can happen to these fin...

We have two wards in our city and about a third of our city is zoned to attend a church building in a smaller community about 10 miles away. Interesting tangent that the LDS church can supplement this smaller city's ward by forcing people to drive an extra 10 miles each way to attend church on Sunda...

Old-Timer wrote: ↑29 Jul 2024, 19:01 When my wife and I both are dead, I want both of us to be kept in the same container - to be together forever in the most literal way possible.

That's beautiful.

Ultimately, I think the limits of reframing come from a combination of your individual personality and the situation of the local leadership. Perhaps it might be problematic that the local leadership changes about once very five years. You may have a tolerant and compassionate bishop at one point, ...

loneliness sucks. dating sucks. loneliness sucks worse. I would continue to put myself out there and try to cast as wide of a net as I could. I was always someone that would non-exclusively date multiple people at once (as long as the relationship doesn't move past the third date and no conversation...

I have sat in on TR interviews for my kids in recent years. The bishops will tend to ask the kids what they understand by the WoW or Law of Chastity and then use what the bishop sees as gaps in the child's understanding as a justification and springboard to discuss the topic more broadly. There is a...