by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Oct 7, 2014 | Terrie Lynn Bittner: Mormonism
During a lesson on how to become wise, the six-and-seven-year-olds I taught already understood that the best way to be sure you are wise is to keep God’s commandments and to be as much like Jesus as possible. However, during our discussion, the issue of agency was...
by Kelly P. Merrill | Sep 8, 2014 | Kelly P. Merrill: Prophets and Their Teachings
My wife teaches math at one of the Church universities. Several times she has complained that she is puzzled and bothered by a practice of the students in her classes. More and more in the last few years, the students are treating their education like a menu. They are...
by Britt Kelly | Apr 17, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
I’ve written and rewritten this post. I have so many different thoughts as I come towards Easter- thoughts of grace and gratitude and love and hope. Each time I sat down to write, none of those ideas spilled onto the page. I could force them there, and I did, but only...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Feb 15, 2014 | Mormon Scriptures
Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of unhappy posts by people of other faiths concerning Adam and Eve and even God’s role in the whole story. As I read the posts, I wish everyone could see the bigger picture of the story of the Fall of Adam. If they could, they’d see it...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Nov 20, 2013 | Finding Happiness
Elizabeth Smart, at age fourteen, told God she was prepared to and willing to serve Him, but needed to know how to do it. Just days later, she was kidnapped by a mentally ill husband and wife. The man considered her his “wife” and repeatedly raped her, beat her,...
