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The reality is, many people do not ever get married. Many people do not care much for dating. Many people find that other things in are more important to them and more fulfilling. But it seems like the church really struggles to accept that there are other paths than the standard one of get married...

Thanks for your thoughts Minyan and DarkJedi. My two cents (free today because of Black Friday week) is probably not super helpful because it's pretty unorthodox. I don't believe the church teachings relating to eternal marriage in large part because it is not addressed in the Bible and most of the ...

I started having serious questions about my faith and the church about 3 years ago, but for the first 1-1.5 years I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about it. I had other things to worry about - an incredibly stressful final year of university, moving to a new city, job searching, figuring out my...

A few of the many things I'm grateful for: - My home is a safe place, physically, emotionally, and spirituality - The ability to connect through technology to my family since I can't see them in person right now. I'm especially grateful that the rules for missionaries communicating with their famili...

I'm in Alberta, and my ward met in person for the first time last Sunday. About 40 people in total came. We're meeting in a larger building than our regular building with a lot of precautions. No singing, entrance and exits on opposite sides of the building, every other pew blocked off, no meetings ...

My experience with meetings suspended has not been a positive one. The last month and a half have only reinforced the fact that, despite how frustrating or boring or even infuriating church meetings sometimes are, they are a crucial part of my social life. I love my ward. It's my community and my ho...

I agree that Sister Bingham's talk had some issues. I believe that she said something about in the beginning men and women were different in purpose but equal in value. She mentioned the word complementary of complementarian several times. Then the apostacy or the natural main or Satan came in and ...

My favourite video on prayer is How People Pray on the Youtube channel Cut. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRN3wWSc3w][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRN3wWSc3w] It interviews people from different religions (including a mixed-faith LDS/Catholic couple) about how they pray, why they pray, how t...

I can't say I'm greatly disappointed only because I didn't have high hopes for the devotional to begin with. Near the beginning Nelson uses the Kimball quote, "If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth," but the actual message was almost completely devo...

Roy, Thanks for your reply! You're right that a large part of my relief came from understanding that my asexuality was a natural part of who I was, not something to be fixed. The other part was finding an online community of people who have similar experiences. And yes, I often question if there is ...