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Part 6: In Which I Finally Get to Gay Marriage
This essay is the sixth and final in a series about Gay Marriage and Proposition 8. Marriage evolved early to protect the vertical relationships between generations and only more recently to protect...
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Family is the Plan of Salvation
This is the fifth in a 7-part series, A Compound in One. Understanding that Satan’s best, most successful efforts are going to be focused on causing us to fail to keep our Second Estate just as he...
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Seeing Good Men
There is a line from Avatar which has become a silly cliché that my kids joke about, but I still love it. When the two main characters feel a connection after spending time getting to know one another...
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Learning to Be Okay With (and Maybe Love) Mother’s Day
“I hate Mother’s Day.” I did not say this, but I have heard it uttered (both online and in person) frequently throughout the years. And the list of LDS members who utter it is very, very long: Married...
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The Unlikely Gift
Mothers-in-law get a bad rap. Luckily for me, my sons-in-love think I’m pretty ok. I know that sometimes that relationship can be strained and difficult for as many reasons as there are couples....
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My Father, an Enigma
My father is an enigma amongst men. Growing up, I didn’t realize how different he was from other typical males in our society, or even from many in the church. It wasn’t until adulthood before I...
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Are Good Men Perfect?
This guest post was submitted anonymously for our Father’s Day series. Back in April I enjoyed reading Jen’s post entitled, Seeing Good Men. At the end of the essay, she encourages: Good and faithful...
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She was 12 years old, and her death was totally unexpected. Thus began a post I wrote in tribute to my father almost six years ago. I want to share that tribute here, nearly unedited, on Father’s...
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We Will Remember
It was a Tuesday afternoon, around 4:30PM. Since it was October 20th, autumn was nearing it’s end on the Wasatch Front and the leaves were starting to fall in earnest. He drove me up into the mountains...
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The Cause of Christians
As we all know, the same-sex marriage issue is a hot topic right now, especially in Utah. Whenever my LDS Facebook friends post pro-gay marriage stuff, it just rubs me wrong and I think, “Do they not...
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