How Worship Works
Sunday, 01 November 2015
by Andrew Ainsworth
Over the past year as I’ve studied Hinduism, I’ve learned about unfamiliar spiritual practices like praying and making offerings to images (statues or portraits) of gods and saints. As a Mormon, I’d have reflexively condemned this practice as worthless and blasphemous “idol worship”. However, I’ve come to see it quite differently. In fact, I’d now go
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Virtue Revisted
Thursday, 29 October 2015
by Micah Nickolaisen
This post contains excerpts from a previous article I wrote called “Faith Like a Ship on the Sea” for A Thoughtful Faith. If you’re reading this, the word “virtue” probably has a lot of baggage. Not-so-fond memories of chewed gum and plucked flower petals, hemlines and sleeve lengths, and uncomfortable questions asked behind closed doors
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