Faith & Questions
Asking Better Questions About Faith
Most of us rarely investigate the things we think we already understand. What changes when we decide to ask better questions before reaching a verdict?
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Faith & Questions
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For the longest time I surmised that the most faithful among us in the gospel were those souls who were the more righteous to start with, and therefore, had the least change to go through to both attain and retain their righteousness.
There is No Such Thing as the Mormon Church
The group of people that others call "Mormons" are actually members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There never has been a "Mormon Church" and there never should be.
Read Article →Asking Better Questions About Faith
Most of us rarely investigate the things we think we already understand. What changes when we decide to ask better questions before reaching a verdict?
Read Article →Reading Scripture Like a Physician
Years of examining evidence in medicine shaped how I approach the text. Not to prove a point, but to understand what is actually there.
Read Article →Encountering the Book of Mormon
I did not grow up with it. I came to it the way one comes to any unfamiliar text — with curiosity, patience, and a willingness to be changed.
Read Article →When Achievement Is Not Enough
I had checked the boxes. Career, family, security. And yet something was still missing. Here is what I found when I went looking for it.
Read Article →Understanding Before Judging
The discipline of encountering a faith on its own terms before deciding what to believe is harder than it sounds — and more rewarding.
Read Article →The Habit of Investigation
How the professional habit of examining evidence became, unexpectedly, the habit that led me to faith.
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