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SamBee wrote: ↑

08 Oct 2018, 08:34

The RLDS/CoC name change was I believe more understandable.

Once again, The Community of Christ is way ahead of us!

Thanks to all who have contributed to this thread. This has helped me a lot to see things differently and realize that there are many different ways to be "all in." Or not, but still have a choice to be constructively engaged at whatever level makes sense to you. For example, I am "all in" with tryi...

I realized I can’t be all in when at the most basic fundamental level I simply don’t believe. It felt too fake going every week and pretending to be orthodox. However, when I was still attempting this, I found the following website to be very helpful. http://www.churchistrue.com Here is an unorthod...

Curt Sunshine wrote: ↑

28 Sep 2018, 16:03

I am all in - but I define those terms for myself and don't care if others define them differently.

Curt, I'd like to be all in on my own terms. Can you share what some of those terms are? PM me if that is more appropriate.

This reminds of President Uchtdorf's phrase "Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith". It's one of the very few things I disagree with him on. I think doubts are important. VERY important. I agree with you. I resonate with almost every talk that the Silver Fox has given, but this is not one o...

There's probably a lot of overlap with discussions on cafeteria Mormonism but shooting from the hip... no one at church is all in. There aren't enough hours in a day. So you magnified three callings. You cleaned the building on Saturday. Helped with that move. Spent 6 hours indexing during the week...

It's been quite a while since I've participated here. I've lurked occasionally, but just have tried to take a break. My temple recommend recently expired, and I didn't renew. This has caused quite a bit of strife with my wife, who loves the temple and can't understand my reasons for doubt/unbelief a...

I'm one of those who was freaked out by my first temple endowment experience (in the mid-80's). I've never liked it, but I eventually learned to get used to it and not get so bothered by it. I really tried to prepare for it (temple prep class, talk with dad, reading The Holy Temple), but I was woefu...

DT, Best wishes to you and I have enjoyed your posts. I think I'm in a similar place as you now on my faith journey, and I haven't spent as much time here lately at StayLDS for that reason. For family reasons, I still continue to participate in church, but my heart isn't in it. Like you, I don't agr...

Welcome Dkormond! Yes, you are definitely not alone! I'm struggling too with many of the same things as you. And I am hanging on (barely) and I stay engaged mostly for family. I finally got some relief when I gave myself permission to not try to believe everything anymore and not try do everything w...