One of my favorite blogs has been PonderIt. Bradley Ross sent me this email and asked me to post this.
The Pharisees set up a hedge of rules around the law of Moses that helped them avoid even getting close to breaking the law. We pick on the Pharisees a lot, but are these rules necessarily […]
Many people who hear that “Families can be together forever” recognize it as an important Mormon teaching. It has been said that Mormons were concerned about the concept of “family values” before it became a political catch phrase. There is the vague notion that we are all related to God as sons and daughters, and […]
We all know families, either our own or others, in which the members (especially the fathers, but not limited to them) use anger, physical power, or a sharp wit to maintain control of each other, instead of love.
A couple of years ago, Elder David R. Stone gave a powerful and memorable talk about “creating Zion in the midst of Babylon.” He said:
We should not allow ourselves to be engulfed by the culture which surrounds us. We seldom realize the extent to which we are a product of the culture of our place and […]
An important section of ‘The Family - A Proclamation to the World’ includes these words:
Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome […]
Often it is said that the LDS church is one of Orthopraxy. In other words, it is a church where we are focused on doing the right things. It could be said that the Proclamation to the World regarding the Family is also focused primarily on this category, and that it lays down some basic […]
Culture communicated by various media – theater, movies, music, television, internet, video games – not only reflects society but has a powerful altering effect on it by promoting a vision of normalcy. The portrayals on the stage or screen are an invitation to pattern our lives and our society according to that depiction. […]
It’s always struck me as significant that “wholesome recreation” is listed among such principles as prayer, faith, repentance, love, etc., when describing successful marriages. What do you suppose was the Brethren’s (or the Lord’s for that matter) reasoning behind the inclusion of this value? How can wholesome recreation contribute to our marriages and […]
“All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny.”
-The Family: A Proclamation to the World
The doctrine that we have a divine destiny as children of our Heavenly Father is not new. […]
Last week, I was doing some research and came upon a powerful talk by Elder Ballard. I think he says some things that are very relevant to discussions that have already taken place and that reinforce the position we take in this series: that the Proclamation is a divinely-inspired document.
