When someone is invoking the Lord’s name or support, see if they are trying to be like Jesus, as the Primary song teaches: “Try to show kindness in all that you do. Be gentle and loving in deed and in thought.”

We all have equal access to God, and it does not depend on your memory being perfect or complete or recent.

For this 3 part bonus mini series, hosts Jennifer Thomas and Patrick Mason engage in a thoughtful conversation with Paul Lambert from the Wheatley Institute. Together, they explore the complex emotions and tensions that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may experience when feeling attacked or judged.

In this special live episode of the Proclaim Peace podcast, host Jennifer Thomas is joined by Chad Ford to discuss peacemaking and discipleship. They discuss how we can find and build peace in a time of high conflict and in the wake of political violence. They draw on the teachings of Jesus to answer these questions and find ways that we can each be peacemakers in this moment, and how it can transform each of us personally, and transform our communities.

Over the last few weeks, I have been considering what it looks like to prepare spiritually to be a flexible, faithful and functional...

Hope is a word we often hear, but it becomes real when we live it and when others share it with us. Hope is more than optimism or wishing...

I am sure I have shared this quote or one similar to it before, but it has been on my mind again so I thought it would be worth sharing...

Recently, in my personal life, I have experienced heartbreak on behalf of a child. Outside circumstances, the actions of others, and a...

I was recently reminded of election night. I didn't cry, but I felt like it. For the first time in my life as a voter, every single human...

Over the years, I have thought often about Frederick Douglass’ description of the injury done to the souls of his oppressors. Speaking of...

(Note: I originally wrote this six years ago and was grateful to my younger self for her words when I found them again recently). I first started getting regular migraines 19 years ago after my dad died much too young from a rare form of cancer. They were the types of “headaches” that would send me to a dark room where I could do nothing but lie in a state of constant pain and nausea until the medicine kicked in. Or sometimes until I could get to an ER for medicine delivered

Several women have communicated with me about how they struggle to worship with fellow Saints on opposite sides of the political...

A woman I respect was recently interviewed by a journalist I also respect about the insufficiency of peacemaking as an approach to the problems of today. We need toughness in order to make any real progress on issues that matter, the journalist argued, and peacemaking is necessarily diminutive, accommodating, and weak. Listening to the exchange as a peaceful root director, I bristled. Listening as a human, I was sympathetic. The public, political, and rhetorical realms all fe

Today, I want to share some stories that have prompted me to reflect on what it looks like to love and move in closer—inspired by the...

I was revisiting Isaiah 6 this week after seeing a verse of this scripture being used in a very spiritually manipulative and divisive...