Essays
The whole case, in one place.
For when you've decided to sit down with a question. Each essay lays out the scriptures, the scholarship, and the stories together, and lists the shorter answers drawn from it.
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104 essays
- "This Is My Body": Christ and the Sanctity of Life Before BirthSanctity of Life
- 3 Sure-fire Ways to Detect Doctrinal TruthProphetic Authority
- A Full Life Before MarriageAdaptationLGBTQCovenants
- A Young Adult Perspective on Marriage and FamilyChildrenMarriage
- Abortions of 'Medical Necessity'Sanctity of LifeAdaptation
- Abuse, Safety, and What Forgiveness Does Not RequireAbuse & Safety
- Adoption and the Sealing PowerSealingProphetic AuthorityPlan of Salvation
- Agency, the Body, and the SoulChastityAgencyAdaptationCovenantsChildren
- Attending a Same-Sex Wedding: Love, Witness, and the Relationship AfterLGBTQSocietyLoveMarriage
- Becoming a Father Long Before You Have ChildrenRolesChildrenSociety
- Before Bethlehem: What Jesus Christ’s Life in the Womb Teaches Us About the Sanctity of LifeProcreationSanctity of Life
- Breaking a Pattern You Were Raised InAbuse & SafetyAdaptationMental Health
- Calamities and the Family ProclamationProphetic AuthoritySociety
- Challenging the Stories We Tell OurselvesMental HealthHeavenly Parents
- Chastity and Calamity: What Paragraph 8 ConnectsChastitySociety
- Children, and the Voices Telling You Not ToRolesMarriageParentingChildrenSociety
- CONFLICT IS NATURAL: HOW WE MISTAKE DISCOMFORT FOR DESTRUCTIONMental HealthMarriage
- Consent, Agency, and What Sexual Intimacy Is ForAgencyChastity
- Covenant Power in Ordinary LifeCovenants
- Dating with PurposeDatingMarriage
- Death, the Spirit World, and Family ReunionPlan of SalvationCovenantsProphetic Authority
- Desire, Waiting, and What Marriage ChangesChastityMarriage
- Divine Purpose When Life Does Not Go to PlanGenderLGBTQAdaptationHeavenly Parents
- Equal Worth, Distinct Strengths: Men and Women in Covenant PartnershipRolesMarriage
- Eternal Gender and the Body You Were GivenGenderChildrenSociety
- Exaltation and Those Who Do Not Marry in This LifeSealingProphetic AuthorityMarriage
- Explaining the Proclamation Across DisagreementLoveSocietyChrist-CenteredProphetic Authority
- Finding Someone to MarryMarriageLoveAdaptationDating
- Five Witnesses of the Pattern for MarriageLGBTQMarriageHeavenly Parents
- Foster Care and the Doctrine of BelongingAbuse & SafetyChildrenParentingAdaptation
- God's Pattern for Marriage: Reflected in Heaven, Rooted in CreationRolesHeavenly ParentsMarriage
- Governing Sexual FeelingChastityRepentanceChildrenAdaptation
- Grace and Truth: Holding a Teaching and a Person at the Same TimeLGBTQChrist-CenteredSocietyChildrenAdaptation
- Heirship, Grace, and BecomingPlan of Salvation
- Helping the Rising Generation See Themselves in the ProclamationChildrenHeavenly Parents
- How a young missionary’s viral Instagram post changed my understanding of truth foreverChildrenPlan of Salvation
- How the Family Proclamation is the Ultimate ‘Fixer Upper’ Home GuideChrist-CenteredFamily
- How the Proclamation Is Just as Much about Prophets as It Is about FamilyProphetic AuthorityFamily
- Identity and Belonging When Life Runs Off the Expected TimelineHeavenly ParentsAdaptation
- Identity and Purpose in the PlanHeavenly ParentsPlan of Salvation
- Infertility and the Promise of ParenthoodAdaptationParentingPlan of Salvation
- Joy in the Womb: Elisabeth, Mary, and the First Witness of ChristSanctity of LifeProcreation
- Marriage and Family in the ResurrectionPlan of SalvationChildrenAdaptation
- Marriage Before You Are EstablishedMarriageDatingChildrenSociety
- Names and Narratives: How Family Storytelling Shapes ResilienceHeavenly ParentsSociety
- On a Day Like Today, I’d Give Anything to go to the TempleSealingCovenants
- Opposition Inside the Plan of HappinessPlan of SalvationHeavenly Parents
- PEACEMAKING, REDFINED: WHY CIVILITY FEELS SO RADICALSocietyChrist-Centered
- Preparing for the TempleCovenantsHeavenly Parents
- Presiding Inside an Equal PartnershipRolesMarriage
- Pressure, Boundaries, and the Law of ChastityChastityMarriageAdaptation
- Private Lives, Public Faith: Our Proclamation as Faithful Latter-day Saints Who Identify as LGBTLGBTQCovenants
- Prophetic Fallibility and the Weight of the ProclamationProphetic Authority
- Prophets Among the VoicesProphetic AuthoritySociety
- Prophets, Personal Revelation, and Honest QuestionsProphetic Authority
- Questions, Distortion, and DiscernmentProphetic AuthorityAdaptationSociety
- Reluctant WitnessesSocietyProphetic AuthorityChildrenChrist-Centered
- Repentance and Forgiveness Inside a FamilyRepentanceChrist-CenteredSociety
- Repentance and Healing After an AbortionSanctity of LifeRepentance
- Sister Nelson: Why we need to replace question marks with exclamation points after words of prophetsProphetic Authority
- Spiritual Identity TheftHeavenly Parents
- Surrogacy and the Mother a Child LosesProcreationAdaptationRolesSanctity of Life
- Temptation, Addiction, and the Governance of DesireChastityAdaptationRepentanceChildren
- The “Istanbul Miracle” and The Family ProclamationSociety
- The Annunciation and the Unborn ChristSanctity of LifeProcreation
- THE ART OF PEACEMAKING: CONTROLLING ANGER BY BRIDGING LOGIC AND EMOTIONMental HealthSociety
- The Commandment to Multiply, and the Decisions Around ItProcreationChildren
- The Divine Purposes of Sexual IntimacyChastityMarriage
- The Doctrine of MotherhoodParentingRolesChildrenAdaptation
- The Family Proclamation Is About More Than Family—It’s About Who You AreHeavenly Parents
- The Heavenly Mother ConversationHeavenly ParentsProphetic Authority
- The Language of the Proclamation, Read CloselyProphetic Authority
- The Order of Heaven: Marriage and FamilyMarriageFamily
- The Pattern for a Good FamilyFamilyChrist-CenteredRepentance
- The Proclamation's Call to CitizensSociety
- The Risk in MarriageChildrenMarriageFamily
- The Shape of the Law of ChastityLoveChastityAdaptationChildren
- The Social Arithmetic of Family BreakdownProphetic AuthoritySocietyAdaptation
- The Standing of the ProclamationProphetic Authority
- Understanding the Doctrine of Eternal Gender and IdentityGenderHeavenly Parents
- Unexpected Pregnancy, Pressure, and the Options Nobody MentionsSanctity of LifeRepentance
- What "Ordained of God" Means for the FamilyFamilyPlan of Salvation
- What a Mother and a Father Each GiveChildrenHeavenly ParentsMarriageLGBTQ
- What a Sealing SurvivesSealingCovenantsProphetic Authority
- What Chastity ProtectsChastityAdaptationChildrenProcreation
- What is truth? Moral relativism is the ‘majority opinion’ of Gen Z, new study revealsSocietyChildren
- What Marriage AddsLoveMarriageAdaptation
- What Marriage Is ForMarriageHeavenly Parents
- What Temple Ordinances DoCovenants
- What’s in a Name? More Than You Might RealizeFamilyHeavenly Parents
- When a Child Questions Their GenderGenderLoveLGBTQHeavenly ParentsChildrenSociety
- When a Child Steps AwayParentingCovenantsChrist-CenteredAdaptation
- When Your Life and the Ideal Do Not MatchAdaptationFamilyChildren
- Where Identity Actually Comes FromHeavenly ParentsMental HealthAdaptationChildren
- Why an Understanding of Mary and Joseph’s Betrothal is Crucial to an Understanding of the Family ProclamationMarriageChastity
- Why Christ Established a ChurchCovenantsFamilyAdaptationProphetic Authority
- Why Elder Holland Wants Us to Use This One Phrase When Talking About the FamilyProphetic AuthorityFamily
- Why Intimacy Waits for the CovenantChastitySanctity of LifeAdaptationProcreation
- Why our spiritual identity reflects who we’ve always beenHeavenly ParentsMental Health
- Why Parenthood Is a CommandmentChildrenSanctity of LifeProcreationRoles
- Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever ThoughtChastitySociety
- Why Society Needs ChildrenChildrenSociety
- Woke or Awake: Discernment and the Call to ActSocietyAgency
- Worthiness, Identity, and Missionary ServiceGenderLGBTQMental Health